Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H6820
צֹעַר
Tsoartso'ar
Zoar
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Tsôʻar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6820is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6820
Tsoar, a place East of the Jordan
The King James renders it: Zoar.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Tsoar is rendered "Zoar". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 13:10And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
Genesis 13:10צֹֽעַר׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's ten uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Zoar6
- from Zoar2
- in Zoar1
- Zoar towards1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- צֹֽעַר׃3
- בְּצ֑וֹעַר1
- מִצּ֜וֹעַר1
- מִצֹּ֙עַר֙1
- צֽוֹעַר׃1
- צֹ֑עַר1
- צֹ֖עַר1
- צֹֽעֲרָה׃1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)6HNpl
- preposition + proper noun (a name)3HR/Npl
- proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)1HNpl/Sd
Genesis
seven uses
And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
- צֹֽעַר׃tzoarproper noun (a name)tagged: Zoar
went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
- צֹֽעַר׃tzoarproper noun (a name)tagged: Zoar
Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) marched out and arrayed themselves for battle in the Valley of Siddim
- צֹ֑עַרtzoarproper noun (a name)tagged: Zoar
Hurry! Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you reach it.” That is why the town was called Zoar.
- צֽוֹעַר׃tzoarproper noun (a name)tagged: Zoar
And by the time the sun had risen over the land, Lot had reached Zoar.
- צֹֽעֲרָה׃tzoarahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Zoar towards
Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains—for he was afraid to stay in Zoar—where they lived in a cave.
- מִצּ֜וֹעַרmitzoarpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Zoar
- בְּצ֑וֹעַרbetzoarpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Zoar
Deuteronomy
one use
the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho (the City of Palms) all the way to Zoar.
- צֹֽעַר׃tzoarproper noun (a name)tagged: Zoar
Isaiah
one use
My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
- צֹ֖עַרtzoarproper noun (a name)tagged: Zoar
Jeremiah
one use
There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.
- מִצֹּ֙עַר֙mitzoarpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Zoar
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.