Zechariah 9:3New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— For Tyre built herself a fortress And piled up silver like dust, And gold like the mire of the streets.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— And Tyre did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— And Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— And Tyre built herself a strong hold, and amassed silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— And Tyre hath built herself a stronghold, and hath heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Therefore did Tyre build a stronghold for herself,—and did heap up silver like dust, yea gold, like the mire of the lanes.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— And Tyre doth build a bulwark to herself, And doth heap silver as dust, And gold as mire of out-places.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— For Tyrus did build her selfe a strong holde, and heaped vp siluer as the dust, and golde as the myre of the streetes.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— And Tyrus did builde her selfe a strong hold, and heaped vp siluer as the dust, and fine golde as the myre of the streets.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Tyre has built herself a stronghold and heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the mire of the streets.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And Tyrus built strong-holds for herself, and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the ways.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— And Tzor did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. |
And
Xôr
צוֹר
6865 {6865} PrimeצֹרTsor{tsore}
The same as H6864; a rock; Tsor, a place in Palestine.
did build
1129 {1129} Primeבָּנָהbanah{baw-naw'}
A primitive root; to build (literally and figuratively).
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
herself a strong hold,
4692 {4692} Primeמָצוֹרmatsowr{maw-tsore'}
From H6696; something hemming in, that is, (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness.
and heaped up
6651 {6651} Primeצָבַרtsabar{tsaw-bar'}
A primitive root; to aggregate.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
silver
3701 {3701} Primeכֶּסֶףkeceph{keh'-sef}
From H3700; silver (from its pale color); by implication money.
as the dust,
6083 {6083} Primeעָפָר`aphar{aw-fawr'}
From H6080; dust (as powdered or gray); hence clay, earth, mud.
and fine gold
2742 {2742} Primeחָרוּץcharuwts{khaw-roots'}
Passive participle of H2782; properly incised or (active) incisive; hence (as noun masculine or feminine) a trench (as dug), gold (as mined), a threshing sledge (having sharp teeth); (figuratively) determination; also eager.
as the mire
2916 {2916} Primeטִיטtiyt{teet}
From an unused root meaning apparently to be sticky (rather perhaps a denominative from H2894, through the idea of dirt to be swept away); mud or clay; figuratively calamity.
of the streets.
2351 {2351} Primeחוּץchuwts{khoots}
(Both forms feminine in the plural); from an unused root meaning to sever; properly separate by a wall, that is, outside, outdoors. |
Zechariah 9:3
_ _ The heathen historian, Diodorus Siculus [17.40], confirms this. “Tyre had the greatest confidence owing to her insular position and fortifications, and the abundant stores she had prepared.” New Tyre was on an island seven hundred paces from the shore. As Isaiah’s and Ezekiel’s (Ezekiel 27:1-36) prophecies were directed against Old Tyre on the mainland and were fulfilled by Nebuchadnezzar, so Zechariah’s are against New Tyre, which was made seemingly impregnable by a double wall one hundred fifty feet high, as well as the sea on all sides. |
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Joshua 19:29 And [then] the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:
2 Samuel 24:7 And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, [even] to Beersheba.
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1 Kings 10:27 And the king made silver [to be] in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he [to be] as the sycomore trees that [are] in the vale, for abundance.
Job 22:24 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
Job 27:16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
Isaiah 23:8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning [city], whose merchants [are] princes, whose traffickers [are] the honourable of the earth?
Ezekiel 27:33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
Ezekiel 28:4-5 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: ... By thy great wisdom [and] by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
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