צׇרְעָה
tsor.ah
Zorah
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word is a proper name, specifically referring to a person named Zorah. The name appears 10 times in the Bible, indicating its significance in certain contexts, though its meaning is not immediately clear from the given definition. In a linguistic sense, is a unique identifier for an individual, much like a given name in modern times. The 10 occurrences of do not provide a detailed range of usage beyond their association with the name Zorah. However, given the frequency of its appearance, it suggests that Zorah played an important role or held some significance in the community where the text was written. Without further context, it is difficult to determine the exact nature of Zorah's importance, but it is clear that the name holds some importance to the narrative. As a proper name, does not convey any inherent meaning beyond its identification of a person. Its significance, therefore, lies not in its inherent definition, but in its association with other individuals or events within the narrative.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
10 total occurrences across the text
in En Rimmon, in Zorah, in Jarmuth,
Joshua 15:33In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
Joshua 19:41The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,
Judges 13:2There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.
Judges 13:25Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
Judges 16:31Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.
Judges 18:2The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
Judges 18:8They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brothers asked them, “What do you say?”
Judges 18:11The family of the Danites set out from Zorah and Eshtaol with six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
2 Chronicles 11:10Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.