Tyre
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:...
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The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father
[was] a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver,
in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in
blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any
manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be
put to him, with thy cunning men, and with th...
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([Now] Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar
trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his
desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in
the land of Galilee....
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Joshua 19:29; 2 Samuel 24:7; Isaiah 23:1; Ezekiel 26-28. In
Phoenicia, E. of the Mediterranean, 20 miles S. of Sidon.
Justin says the Sidonians founded Tyre after having been
defeated by the king of Ascalon, 1209 B.C. according to the
Parian marble. A double city, part on the mainland, part on
an island nearly one mile long, and separated from...
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a rock, now es-Sur; an ancient Phoenician city, about 23
miles,
in a direct line, north of Acre, and 20 south of
Sidon. Sidon
was the oldest Phoenician city, but Tyre had a
longer and more
illustrious history. The commerce of the whole world
was
gathered into the warehouses of Tyre. "Tyrian
merchants were the
first who ventured to navigat...
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(a rock), a celebrated commercial city of Phoenicia, on the
coast of the Mediterranean. Its Hebrew name, Tzor, signifies
a rock; which well agrees with the site of Sur, the modern
town, on a rocky peninsula, formerly an island. There is no
doubt that, previous to the siege of the city by Alexander
the Great, Tyre was situated on an island; but...
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1. Kingdom of
Hiram, king of
1Ki 5:1; 2Ch 2:3
Sends material to David for his palace
2Ch 2:3
Men and materials sent from, to Solomon, for the
erection of
the temple and his castles
1Ki 5:1-11; 9:10,11; 2Ch 2:3-16
See HIRAM
-2. City of
Situated on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea
On the northern boundary of the tribe of Asher
Jos 19:2...
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