H6736 - צִיר (tsîyr / tsiyr)¶

Core Data¶

Strong's: H6736
Original: צִיר
Transliteration: tsîyr (tsiyr)
Pronunciation: tseer
Part of Speech: Masculine noun
Root: The local lexicon row does not expose a usable parent/root Strong's number. It defines the noun as a carved or pressed-out form that comes to mean an idolatrous image.
Occurrences: 1 unique verse (1 token) in 1 book
First Occurrence: Isa 45:16 - "They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together [that are] makers of idols."
Hapax Legomenon: YES - appears only once in the local occurrence dataset

Lexicon Definition¶

search_strongs.py --lexicon defines H6736 as:

a form (of beauty; as if pressed out, i.e. carved); hence, an (idolatrous) image

The key lexical movement is from shaped form to cult image. In the verified KJV occurrence data, that narrower idol/image sense is the only attested usage.

The local Strong's/BDB row also preserves a note about a Psalms Kethib form glossed "their form," but the local occurrence table indexes only Isa 45:16 under H6736. This study therefore treats the Isaiah idol-use as the recoverable canonical usage in the present toolset.

Translation Distribution (KJV)¶

Translation	Count	%
of idols	1	100.0%

With only one tagged occurrence, the KJV evidence is completely uniform.

Distribution by Book¶

Book	Count	Per 100 Verses
Isaiah	1	0.1

Pattern: H6736 is an extreme rarity. In the local corpus it appears only in Isaiah's anti-idol polemic and nowhere else.

Semantic Categories¶

Because H6736 is a hapax in the local occurrence data, its semantic range must be stated narrowly and directly from the one attested verse.

1. A crafted idol-image condemned in prophetic polemic¶

Isa 45:16 - "They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together [that are] makers of idols."

Here the noun denotes the object produced by idol-makers. The verse does not use H6736 for a neutral artistic figure or a general likeness; it is specifically a shame-bound cult image in contrast with the Lord's uniqueness in the surrounding context.

Common Collocations¶

gather_word_data.py returned no stable content-word collocations for H6736. With only one tagged verse, there is not enough corpus to build a meaningful co-occurrence table.

Domain Neighbors¶

H457 אֱלִיל (eliyl) - idol term stressing worthlessness or nothingness.
H1544 גִּלּוּל (gillul) - contemptuous idol term, especially prominent in prophetic denunciation.
H4541 מַסֵּכָה (maccekah) - molten or cast image; fabrication-focused idol vocabulary.
H6091 עָצָב (atsab) - idolatrous image term with a much broader OT footprint than H6736.

These neighbors come from the image/cult-object domains surfaced by search_relationships.py and from the wider idol-translation cluster in the local Strong's database.

Antonyms¶

No antonyms were returned by search_relationships.py for H6736.

Easily Confused Words¶

Word	Strong's	Shared Form / Domain	Key Difference
צִיר (tsîyr)	H6735	same consonants	H6735 is the distinct homograph for hinge, envoy, pang, or messenger; H6736 is the rare idol-image noun.
צֶלֶם (tselem)	H6754	image / idol domain	H6754 is the broader image word used for both legitimate and illegitimate representations; H6736 is narrower and only attested as an idol term in the local corpus.
עָצָב (atsab)	H6091	idol / image	H6091 is a recurring idol-image term across narrative, psalmic, and prophetic texts; H6736 is a hapax confined to Isa 45:16.
אֱלִיל (eliyl)	H457	idol	H457 emphasizes the idol's worthlessness; H6736 emphasizes the shaped image itself.

Semantic Domains¶

search_relationships.py returns several mixed domains for the consonantal form ציר, because other Strong's entries share the same spelling. The domains that fit the verified H6736 lexicon and verse data are:

[001002008001010] Images - the shaped-image / carved-form field
[001002008001006] Cult Objects - the worship-object field

Those two domains match the one attested biblical use. The messenger/pang/building domains returned by the tool belong to other ציר homographs, not to H6736.

LXX Mapping¶

search_strongs.py --lxx-map H6736 returned: No LXX alignments found for H6736.

Given the word's hapax status and the fact that the local occurrence data contains only one verse, there is not enough evidence here to justify a cross-testament trace file.