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 צר
-'xer' means "trouble", but is often taken to mean "enemies".
+The meaning of 'xer' is unclear.
-It is the root word of [[xerey]] ("skin problems"), and also [[mexerim]] "the Egyptians"
+In many cases it is taken to mean "trouble", or "enemies", and is the root word of [[xerey]] refering to "skin problems" such as pox or leprosy.
+On the other hand, in many cases it appears to have a rather opposite meaning of "preserve".
+It is also the root of two geographically neighboring cultural opponents, the same word translated sometimes as "Tyre" and sometimes "Egypt"((see [[mexerim]])). The Egyptians could be thought of as "the Preserved People", due to their practice of mummification of their dead.
+One possible resolution of this dilemma is that the word originally meant "preserve" but came to take on several ironic usages.
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 LexID 6862 - 6869