Usually translated as
trouble, enemy, adversary, distress, strait, affliction, narrow, afflicted, anguish, close, small, sorrow, tribulation, flint, foe
Occurrences
Tsar occurs 109 times in 106 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Numbers (3), Deuteronomy (5), Joshua (1), Judges (1), 1 Samuel (1), 2 Samuel (3), 2 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (2), 2 Chronicles (1), Ezra (1), Nehemiah (2), Esther (2), Job (8), Psalms (40), Proverbs (2), Isaiah (13), Jeremiah (4), Lamentations (8), Ezekiel (2), Hosea (1), Amos (1), Micah (1), Nahum (1), Zechariah (1)
- Genesis 14:20 — And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies (צָרֶ֖יךָ) into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
- Numbers 10:9 — And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy (הַצַּר֙) that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
- Numbers 22:26 — And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow (צָ֔ר) place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
- Numbers 24:8 — God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies (צָרָ֗יו), and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
- Deuteronomy 4:30 — When thou art in tribulation (בַּצַּ֣ר), and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
- Deuteronomy 32:27 — Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries (צָרֵ֑ימוֹ) should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
- Deuteronomy 32:41 — If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies (לְצָרָ֔י), and will reward them that hate me.
- Deuteronomy 32:43 — Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries (לְצָרָ֔יו), and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
- Deuteronomy 33:7 — And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies (מִצָּרָ֖יו).
- Joshua 5:13 — And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries (לְצָרֵֽינוּ)?
- Judges 11:7 — And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father’s house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress (צַ֥ר)?
- 1 Samuel 2:32 — And thou shalt see an enemy (צַ֣ר) in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.
- 2 Samuel 22:7 — In my distress (בַּצַּר) I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
- 2 Samuel 24:13 — So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies (צָרֶ֜יךָ), while they pursue thee? or that there be three days’ pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
- 2 Samuel 24:14 — And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait (צַר): let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
- 2 Kings 6:1 — And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait (צַ֥ר) for us.
- 1 Chronicles 12:17 — And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies (לְצָרַ֗י), seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
- 1 Chronicles 21:12 — Either three years’ famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes (צָרֶיךָ֮), while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
- 2 Chronicles 15:4 — But when they in their trouble (בַּצַּר) did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
- Ezra 4:1 — Now when the adversaries (צָרֵ֥י) of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;
- Nehemiah 4:11 — And our adversaries (צָרֵ֗ינוּ) said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.
- Nehemiah 9:27 — Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies (צָֽרֵיהֶ֔ם), who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.
- 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 thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies (צָרֵיהֶֽם).
- Esther 7:4 — For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy (הַצָּ֛ר) could not countervail the king’s damage.
- Esther 7:6 — And Esther said, The adversary (צַ֣ר) and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
- Job 6:23 — Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand (צָ֑ר)? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
- Job 7:11 — Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish (בְּצַ֣ר) of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 15:24 — Trouble (צַ֣ר) and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
- Job 16:9 — He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy (צָרִ֓י) sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
- Job 19:11 — He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies (כְצָרָֽיו).
- Job 36:16 — Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait (צָ֗ר) into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
- Job 38:23 — Which I have reserved against the time of trouble (צָ֑ר), against the day of battle and war?
- Job 41:15 — His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close (צָֽר) seal.
- Psalms 3:1 — LORD, how are they increased that trouble (צָרָ֑י) me! many are they that rise up against me.
- Psalms 4:1 — Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress (בַּ֭צָּר); have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
- Psalms 13:4 — Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble (צָרַ֥י) me rejoice when I am moved.
- Psalms 18:6 — In my distress (בַּצַּר) I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
- Psalms 27:2 — When the wicked, even mine enemies (צָרַ֣י) and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
- Psalms 27:12 — Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies (צָרָ֑י): for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
- Psalms 31:9 — Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
- Psalms 32:7 — Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble (מִצַּ֪ר); thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
- Psalms 44:5 — Through thee will we push down our enemies (צָרֵ֣ינוּ): through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
- Psalms 44:7 — But thou hast saved us from our enemies (מִצָּרֵ֑ינוּ), and hast put them to shame that hated us.
- Psalms 44:10 — Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy (צָ֑ר): and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
- Psalms 59:16 — But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.
- Psalms 60:11 — Give us help from trouble (מִצָּ֑ר): for vain is the help of man.
- Psalms 60:12 — Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies (צָרֵֽינוּ).
- Psalms 66:14 — Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble (בַּצַּר).
- Psalms 69:17 — And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
- Psalms 74:10 — O God, how long shall the adversary (צָ֑ר) reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?