Isaiah 23:15:5Isa.23.15.W5TAB

צֹר֙

tsor

Tyre

Transliteration
TSOR
Extended
TSOHR
IPA
/tsˈoːr/

Meaning by language

English
Tyre

Alphabet Analysis

Tsadets as in cats
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    TSOR

  2. phraseyour reading level

    ve-nish-KHA-khat TSOR

  3. clause

    ve-ha-YA ba-YOM ha-HU ve-nish-KHA-khat TSOR shiv-e-IM sha-NA ki-ME ME-lekh e-KHAD

  4. sentence

    ve-ha-YA ba-YOM ha-HU ve-nish-KHA-khat TSOR shiv-e-IM sha-NA ki-ME ME-lekh e-KHAD mik-KETS shiv-e-IM sha-NA yih-yeh le-TSOR ke-shi-RAT ha-zo-NA

Exegesis

Venishkachath {וְנִשְׁכַּ֤חַת | wə-nîš-kā-ḥat}, a Niphal perfect, expresses passive forgetting of Tsor {צֹר֙ | ṣôr}.

Root and etymology

consonantstsade–vav–resh

rock, rocky height

In contextIsaiah 23:15

And it will be in that day that Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will be for Tyre as the song of the prostitute .

About this coordinate

Isaiah 23:15:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Isaiah 23:15, so the Hebrew word צֹר֙ (tsor) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Isa.23.15.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Isa.23.15.W5.S1) and character.