Strong's #6696: tsuwr (pronounced tsoor)
a primitive root; to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile):--adversary, assault, beset, besiege, bind (up), cast, distress, fashion, fortify, inclose, lay siege, put up in bags.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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tsûr
1) to bind, besiege, confine, cramp
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to confine, secure
1a2) to shut in, beseige
1a3) to shut up, enclose
2) (Qal) to show hostility to, be an adversary, treat as foe
3) (Qal) to form, fashion, delineate
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1898, 1899, 1900
Usage:
This word is used 38 times:
Exodus 23:22: "I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries."
Exodus 32:4: "And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf:"
Deuteronomy 2:9: "And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither"
Deuteronomy 2:19: "over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for"
Deuteronomy 14:25: "Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place"
Deuteronomy 20:12: "with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege"
Deuteronomy 20:19: "When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against"
Judges 9:31: "be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against"
1 Samuel 23:8: "together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men."
2 Samuel 11:1: "the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried"
2 Samuel 20:15: "And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city,"
1 Kings 7:15: " For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits"
1 Kings 15:27: "for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon."
1 Kings 16:17: "and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah."
1 Kings 20:1: "and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged"
2 Kings 5:23: "take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags,"
2 Kings 6:24: "all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria."
2 Kings 6:25: "famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head"
2 Kings 12:10: "and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found"
2 Kings 16:5: "came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not"
2 Kings 17:5: "the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years."
2 Kings 18:9: "came up against Samaria, and besieged"
2 Kings 24:11: "against the city, and his servants did besiege"
1 Chronicles 20:1: "of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried"
2 Chronicles 28:20: "of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not."
Esther 8:11: "all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil"
Psalms 139:5: " Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon"
Song of Solomon 8:9: "and if she be a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar."
Isaiah 21:2: "spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease."
Isaiah 29:3: "And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts"
Jeremiah 21:4: "the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls,"
Jeremiah 21:9: "and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be"
Jeremiah 32:2: "the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet"
Jeremiah 37:5: "was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard"
Jeremiah 39:1: "his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged"
Ezekiel 4:3: "against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house"
Ezekiel 5:3: "thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts."
Daniel 1:1: "king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged"
