Yâtsar — H3334

Definition

verb

to press (intransitive), i.e. be narrow; figuratively, be in distress

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

Usually translated as

be distressed, be straitened, be narrow, be vexed

Origin

a primitive root

Occurrences

Yâtsar occurs 8 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Judges (2), 1 Samuel (1), Job (2), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (1)

• Genesis 32:7 — Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed (וַיֵּ֣צֶר): and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
• Judges 2:15 — Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed (וַיֵּ֥צֶר).
• Judges 10:9 — Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed (וַתֵּ֥צֶר).
• 1 Samuel 30:6 — And David was greatly distressed (וַתֵּ֨צֶר); for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
• Job 18:7 — The steps of his strength shall be straitened (יֵֽ֭צְרוּ), and his own counsel shall cast him down.
• Job 20:22 — In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits (יֵ֣צֶר): every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
• Proverbs 4:12 — When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened (יֵצַ֣ר); and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
• Isaiah 49:19 — For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow (תֵּצְרִ֣י) by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.