Bible word study

Tsiyr (Strong’s H6735): Meaning in the Bible

Tsiyr (צִיר) is the Hebrew word numbered H6735 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a hinge (as pressed in turning); also a throe (as a phys. or mental pressure); also a herald or errand-doer (as constrained by the principal). In the King James Bible it is translated ambassador, hinge, messenger, pain, pang.

• Original wordצִיר
• Transliterationtsîyr
• Pronunciationtseer
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH6735
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H6696;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Tsiyr appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Tsiyr (H6735) stands behind 12 English renderings in 11 verses across 6 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Isaiah (5), Proverbs (3), 1 Samuel (1).

How the King James Bible renders Tsiyr, by count

• ambassador3 of 12 (25 percent)
• pangs3 of 12 (25 percent)
• ambassadors1 of 12 (8 percent)
• hinges1 of 12 (8 percent)
• messenger1 of 12 (8 percent)
• messengers1 of 12 (8 percent)

Three places to read Tsiyr

• 1 Samuel 4:19 And his daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
• Proverbs 26:14 As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.
• Isaiah 57:9 And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Tsiyr in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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