Word Summary
Tyros: Tyre, a city of Phoenicia
Original Word: ΤύροςTransliteration: Tyros
Phonetic Spelling: (too'-ros)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: Tyre, a city of Phoenicia
Meaning: Tyre -- a city of Phoenicia
Strong's Concordance
Tyre.
Of Hebrew origin (Tsor): Tyrus (i.e. Tsor), a place in Palestine -- Tyre.
see HEBREW Tsor
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5184: ΤύροςΤύρος,
Τύρου,
ἡ (Hebrew
צור or
צֹר; from Aramaic
טוּר, a rock),
Tyre, a Phoenician city on the Mediterranean, very ancient, large, splendid, flourishing in commerce, and powerful by land and sea. In the time of Christ and the apostles it was subject to the Romans, but continued to possess considerable wealth and prosperity down to
A.D. 1291. It is at present an obscure little place containing some five thousand inhabitants, part Mohammedans part Christians, with a few Jews (cf. Bädeker's Palestine, p. 425f; (Murray's, op. cit., p. 370f)). It is mentioned Acts 21:3, 7, and (in company with Sidon) in Matthew 11:21; Matthew 15:21; Luke 6:17; Luke 10:13; Mark 3:8; Mark 7:24 (where T omits; Tr marginal reading WH brackets καί Σιδῶνος), 31. (BB. DD.)