Usually translated as
enemy, vex, distress, afflict, pangs, be in a strait, affliction, bind, narrower, adversary, beseige, oppress, shut up
Occurrences
Tsârar occurs 54 times in 52 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (2), Leviticus (1), Numbers (4), Deuteronomy (1), Joshua (1), 1 Samuel (3), 2 Samuel (3), 1 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (3), Nehemiah (1), Esther (4), Job (1), Psalms (14), Proverbs (2), Isaiah (3), Jeremiah (3), Hosea (2), Amos (1), Zephaniah (1)
- Exodus 12:34 — And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up (צְרֻרֹ֥ת) in their clothes upon their shoulders.
- 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 unto thine adversaries (צֹרְרֶֽיךָ).
- Leviticus 18:18 — Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex (לִצְרֹ֗ר) her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
- Numbers 10:9 — And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth (הַצֹּרֵ֣ר) 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 25:17 — Vex (צָר֖וֹר) the Midianites, and smite them:
- Numbers 25:18 — For they vex (צֹרְרִ֥ים) you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake.
- Numbers 33:55 — But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex (וְצָרֲר֣וּ) you in the land wherein ye dwell.
- Deuteronomy 28:52 — And he shall besiege (וְהֵצַ֨ר) thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced 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.
- Deuteronomy 28:52 — And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege (וְהֵצַ֤ר) thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
- Joshua 9:4 — They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up (וּמְצֹרָרִֽים);
- 1 Samuel 13:6 — When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
- 1 Samuel 25:29 — Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound (צְרוּרָ֣ה) in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
- 1 Samuel 28:15 — And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed (צַר); for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
- 2 Samuel 1:26 — I am distressed (צַר) for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
- 2 Samuel 13:2 — And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her.
- 2 Samuel 20:3 — And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up (צְרֻר֛וֹת) unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
- 1 Kings 8:37 — If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege (יָֽצַר) them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
- 1 Chronicles 21:13 — And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.
- 2 Chronicles 6:28 — If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
- 2 Chronicles 28:22 — And in the time of his distress (הָצֵ֣ר) did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.
- 2 Chronicles 33:12 — And when he was in affliction (וּכְהָצֵ֣ר), he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
- 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.
- Esther 3:10 — And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy (צֹרֵ֥ר).
- Esther 8:1 — On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews’ enemy (צֹרֵ֣ר) unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.
- Esther 9:10 — The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy (צֹרֵ֥ר) of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.
- Esther 9:24 — Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy (צֹרֵר֙) of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
- Job 26:8 — He bindeth up (צֹרֵֽר) the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
- Psalms 6:7 — Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies (צוֹרְרָֽי).
- Psalms 7:4 — If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy (צוֹרְרִ֣י):)
- Psalms 7:6 — Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies (צוֹרְרָ֑י): and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
- Psalms 8:2 — Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies (צוֹרְרֶ֑יךָ), that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
- Psalms 10:5 — His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies (צ֝וֹרְרָ֗יו), he puffeth at them.
- Psalms 23:5 — Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies (צֹרְרָ֑י): thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
- Psalms 31:11 — I was a reproach among all mine enemies (צֹרְרַ֨י), but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
- Psalms 42:10 — As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies (צוֹרְרָ֑י) reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
- Psalms 69:19 — Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries (צוֹרְרָֽי) are all before thee.
- Psalms 74:4 — Thine enemies (צֹ֭רְרֶיךָ) roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
- Psalms 74:23 — Forget not the voice of thine enemies (צֹרְרֶ֑יךָ): the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
- Psalms 129:1 — Many a time have they afflicted (צְרָר֣וּנִי) me from my youth, may Israel now say:
- Psalms 129:2 — Many a time have they afflicted (צְרָר֣וּנִי) me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
- Psalms 143:12 — And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict (צֹרֲרֵ֣י) my soul: for I am thy servant.
- Proverbs 26:8 — As he that bindeth (כִּצְר֣וֹר) a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.
- Proverbs 30:4 — Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound (צָֽרַר) the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?
- Isaiah 8:16 — Bind up (צ֖וֹר) the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
- Isaiah 11:13 — The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries (יָצֹ֥ר) of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
- Isaiah 11:13 — The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex (וְצֹרְרֵ֥י) Ephraim.
- Isaiah 28:20 — For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower (צָ֖רָה) than that he can wrap himself in it.
- Jeremiah 10:18 — For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress (וַהֲצֵר֥וֹתִי) them, that they may find it so.
- Jeremiah 48:41 — Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men’s hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs (מְצֵרָֽה).
- Jeremiah 49:22 — Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs (מְצֵרָֽה).