Strong's #6887: tsarar (pronounced tsaw-rar')
a primitive root; to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (as follows):--adversary, (be in) afflict(-ion), beseige, bind (up), (be in, bring) distress, enemy, narrower, oppress, pangs, shut up, be in a strait (trouble), vex.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
tsârar
1) to bind, be narrow, be in distress, make narrow, cause distress, besiege, be straitened, be bound
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to bind, tie up, shut up
1a2) to be scant, be cramped, be in straits
1b) (Pual) to be bound, be tied up
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to make narrow for, cause distress to, press hard upon
1c2) to suffer distress
2) to show hostility toward, vex
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to show hostility toward, treat with enmity, vex, harass
1a2) vexer, harasser (participle)
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1973, 1974
Usage:
This word is used 54 times:
Exodus 12:34: "before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders."
Exodus 23:22: "unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries."
Leviticus 18:18: "a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life"
Numbers 10:9: "in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before"
Numbers 25:17: " Vex the Midianites, and smite"
Numbers 25:18: "For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter"
Numbers 33:55: "them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein"
Deuteronomy 28:52: " And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down,"
Deuteronomy 28:52: "trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land,"
Joshua 9:4: "bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;"
1 Samuel 13:6: "of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people"
1 Samuel 25:29: "but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD"
1 Samuel 28:15: "me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God"
2 Samuel 1:26: " I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful,"
2 Samuel 13:2: "And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she"
2 Samuel 20:3: "them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death,"
1 Kings 8:37: "caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague,"
1 Chronicles 21:13: "said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand"
2 Chronicles 6:28: "or caterpillars; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore"
2 Chronicles 28:22: "And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz."
2 Chronicles 33:12: " And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly"
Nehemiah 9:27: "Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto"
Esther 3:10: "the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy."
Esther 8:1: "the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came"
Esther 9:10: "of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid"
Esther 9:24: "the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against"
Job 26:8: " He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under"
Psalms 6:7: "because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies."
Psalms 7:4: "unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)"
Psalms 7:6: "in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded."
Psalms 8:2: "and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger."
Psalms 10:5: "thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth"
Psalms 23:5: "a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup"
Psalms 31:11: "I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear"
Psalms 42:10: "As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto"
Psalms 69:19: "my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: mine adversaries are all before"
Psalms 74:4: " Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs."
Psalms 74:23: "Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually."
Psalms 129:1: "A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now"
Psalms 129:2: "Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed"
Psalms 143:12: "mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant."
Proverbs 26:8: " As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honor to a fool."
Proverbs 30:4: "the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established"
Isaiah 8:16: " Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples."
Isaiah 11:13: "The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not"
Isaiah 11:13: "Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim."
Isaiah 28:20: "is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself"
Jeremiah 10:18: "of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find"
Jeremiah 48:41: "shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs."
Jeremiah 49:22: "be as the heart of a woman in her pangs."
