Usually translated as
fenced, fortify, gather, gatherer, strong, cut off, defenced, mighty things, restrain, wall, withhold
Occurrences
Bâtsar occurs 36 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Leviticus (2), Numbers (1), Deuteronomy (5), Joshua (1), Judges (1), 2 Samuel (1), 2 Kings (2), 2 Chronicles (4), Nehemiah (1), Job (1), Psalms (1), Isaiah (5), Jeremiah (5), Ezekiel (2), Hosea (1), Obadiah (1), Zephaniah (1)
- Genesis 11:6 — And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained (יִבָּצֵ֣ר) from them, which they have imagined to do.
- Leviticus 25:5 — That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather (תִבְצֹ֑ר) the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
- Leviticus 25:11 — A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather (תִבְצְר֖וּ) the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
- Numbers 13:28 — Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled (בְּצֻר֤וֹת), and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
- Deuteronomy 1:28 — Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled (וּבְצוּרֹ֖ת) up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
- Deuteronomy 3:5 — All these cities were fenced (בְּצֻר֛וֹת) with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
- Deuteronomy 9:1 — Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up (וּבְצֻרֹ֖ת) to heaven,
- Deuteronomy 24:21 — When thou gatherest the grapes (תִבְצֹר֙) of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
- Deuteronomy 28:52 — And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced (וְהַבְּצֻר֔וֹת) walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
- Joshua 14:12 — Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced (בְּצֻר֔וֹת): if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.
- Judges 9:27 — And they went out into the fields, and gathered (וַֽיִּבְצְר֤וּ) their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.
- 2 Samuel 20:6 — And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced (בְּצֻר֖וֹת) cities, and escape us.
- 2 Kings 18:13 — Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced (הַבְּצֻר֖וֹת) cities of Judah, and took them.
- 2 Kings 19:25 — Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced (בְּצֻרֽוֹת) cities into ruinous heaps.
- 2 Chronicles 17:2 — And he placed forces in all the fenced (הַבְּצֻר֑וֹת) cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
- 2 Chronicles 19:5 — And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced (הַבְּצֻר֖וֹת) cities of Judah, city by city,
- 2 Chronicles 32:1 — After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced (הַבְּצֻר֔וֹת) cities, and thought to win them for himself.
- 2 Chronicles 33:14 — Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced (הַבְּצֻר֖וֹת) cities of Judah.
- Nehemiah 9:25 — And they took strong (בְּצֻרוֹת֮) cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
- Job 42:2 — I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can (יִבָּצֵ֖ר) be withholden from thee.
- Psalms 76:12 — He shall cut off (יִ֭בְצֹר) the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
- Isaiah 2:15 — And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced (בְצוּרָֽה) wall,
- Isaiah 22:10 — And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify (לְבַצֵּ֖ר) the wall.
- Isaiah 25:2 — For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a (בְצוּרָ֖ה) defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
- Isaiah 27:10 — Yet the (בְּצוּרָה֙) defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
- Isaiah 36:1 — Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the (הַבְּצֻר֖וֹת) defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
- Jeremiah 6:9 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer (כְּבוֹצֵ֖ר) into the baskets.
- Jeremiah 15:20 — And I will make thee unto this people a fenced (בְּצוּרָ֔ה) brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
- Jeremiah 33:3 — Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty (וּבְצֻר֖וֹת) things, which thou knowest not.
- Jeremiah 49:9 — If grapegatherers (בֹּֽצְרִים֙) come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.
- Jeremiah 51:53 — Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify (תְבַצֵּ֖ר) the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
- Ezekiel 21:20 — Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the (בְּצוּרָֽה) defenced.
- Ezekiel 36:35 — And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced (בְּצוּר֥וֹת), and are inhabited.
- Hosea 8:14 — For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced (בְּצֻר֑וֹת) cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
- Obadiah 1:5 — If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers (בֹּֽצְרִים֙) came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?
- Zephaniah 1:16 — A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced (הַבְּצֻר֔וֹת) cities, and against the high towers.