Usually translated as
besiege, lay siege, bind, distress, adversary, assault, beset, cast, fortify, put up in bags, fashion, inclose
Occurrences
Tsûwr occurs 38 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (2), Deuteronomy (5), Judges (1), 1 Samuel (1), 2 Samuel (2), 1 Kings (4), 2 Kings (8), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (1), Esther (1), Psalms (1), Song of Songs (1), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (5), Ezekiel (2), Daniel (1)
- Exodus 23:22 — But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary (וְצַרְתִּ֖י) unto thine adversaries.
- Exodus 32:4 — And he received them at their hand, and fashioned (וַיָּ֤צַר) it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 2:9 — And the LORD said unto me, Distress (תָּ֙צַר֙) not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
- Deuteronomy 2:19 — And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress (תְּצֻרֵ֖ם) them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.
- Deuteronomy 14:25 — Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up (וְצַרְתָּ֤) the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:
- Deuteronomy 20:12 — And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege (וְצַרְתָּ֖) it:
- Deuteronomy 20:19 — When thou shalt besiege (תָצ֣וּר) a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege:
- Judges 9:31 — And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify (צָרִ֥ים) the city against thee.
- 1 Samuel 23:8 — And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege (לָצ֥וּר) David and his men.
- 2 Samuel 11:1 — And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged (וַיָּצֻ֖רוּ) Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
- 2 Samuel 20:15 — And they came and besieged (וַיָּצֻ֣רוּ) him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
- 1 Kings 7:15 — For he cast (וַיָּ֛צַר) two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
- 1 Kings 15:27 — And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege (צָרִ֖ים) to Gibbethon.
- 1 Kings 16:17 — And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged (וַיָּצֻ֖רוּ) Tirzah.
- 1 Kings 20:1 — And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged (וַיָּ֙צַר֙) Samaria, and warred against it.
- 2 Kings 5:23 — And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound (וַיָּצַר֩) two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.
- 2 Kings 6:24 — And it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged (וַיָּ֖צַר) Samaria.
- 2 Kings 6:25 — And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged (צָרִ֣ים) it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.
- 2 Kings 12:10 — And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags (וַיָּצֻ֙רוּ֙), and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 16:5 — Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged (וַיָּצֻ֙רוּ֙) Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
- 2 Kings 17:5 — Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged (וַיָּ֥צַר) it three years.
- 2 Kings 18:9 — And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged (וַיָּ֥צַר) it.
- 2 Kings 24:11 — And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege (צָרִ֥ים) it.
- 1 Chronicles 20:1 — And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged (וַיָּ֣צַר) Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.
- 2 Chronicles 28:20 — And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
- Esther 8:11 — Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault (הַצָּרִ֥ים) them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
- Psalms 139:5 — Thou hast beset (צַרְתָּ֑נִי) me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
- Song of Songs 8:9 — If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we (נָצ֥וּר) will inclose her with boards of cedar.
- Isaiah 21:2 — A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege (צוּרִ֣י), 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 (וְצַרְתִּ֤י) against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
- Jeremiah 21:4 — Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege (הַצָּרִ֣ים) you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.
- Jeremiah 21:9 — He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege (הַצָּרִ֤ים) you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
- Jeremiah 32:2 — For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged (צָרִ֖ים) Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.
- Jeremiah 37:5 — Then Pharaoh’s army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged (הַצָּרִ֤ים) Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 39:1 — In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged (וַיָּצֻ֖רוּ) it.
- Ezekiel 4:3 — Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege (וְצַרְתָּ֣) against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 5:3 — Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind (וְצַרְתָּ֥) them in thy skirts.
- Daniel 1:1 — In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged (וַיָּ֥צַר) it.