צְרוֹר
tse.ror
bundle
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word צְרוֹר (tse.ror) is defined as a "bundle." This term encompasses a range of groupings, likely of objects such as sticks, fibers, or other items that are tied together. The word appears 7 times in the Bible, which suggests it holds some significance, though the exact context is not determined by the lexicon data alone. Its occurrences suggest that "bundle" in this context may involve tying things together for various purposes, though the full nature of those purposes is left to interpretation based on its uses in the biblical narrative. The definition's breadth hints at the word's range of applications and its functionality in describing compacted groups.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
7 total occurrences across the text
He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”
Song of Solomon 1:13My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.
Haggai 1:6You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”
Job 14:17My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
Genesis 42:35As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
Genesis 42:35As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
1 Samuel 25:29Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.