Strong's #3334: yatsar (pronounced yaw-tsar')

a primitive root; to press (intransitive), i.e. be narrow; figuratively, be in distress:--be distressed, be narrow, be straitened (in straits), be vexed.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

yâtsar

1) to bind, be distressed, be in distress, be cramped, be narrow, be scant, be in straits, make narrow, cause distress, beseige

1a) (Qal) to suffer distress

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

Genesis 32:7: "Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that"
Judges 2:15: "and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed."
Judges 10:9: "of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed."
1 Samuel 30:6: "And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because"
Job 18:7: "The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down."
Job 20:22: "In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come"
Proverbs 4:12: "When thou goest, thy steps be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble."
Isaiah 49:19: "of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away."