בָּצַר (ba.tsar) means “to gather/restrain/fortify” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: baw-tsar' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
בָּצַר · ba.tsar · to gather/restrain/fortify
1) to gather, restrain, fence, fortify, make inaccessible, enclose 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cut off 1a2) fortified, cut off, made inaccessible (pass participle) 1a3) secrets, mysteries, inaccessible things (subst) 1b) (Niphal) to be withheld 1c) (Piel) to fortify
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a primitive root; to clip off; specifically (as denominative from H1210 (בָּצִיר)) to gather grapes; also to be isolated (i.e. inaccessible by height or fortification)
KJV glosses: cut off, (de-) fenced, fortify, (grape) gather(-er), mighty things, restrain, strong, wall (up), withhold.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the fortified | 8 |
| fortified | 6 |
| and fortified | 2 |
| grape gatherers | 2 |
| a fortified wall | 1 |
| and fortifies | 1 |
| and unsearchable things | 1 |
| are now fortified | 1 |
| can be thwarted | 1 |
| gathered grapes | 1 |
| he breaks | 1 |
| into fortified | 1 |
| its fortified | 1 |
| like a grape gatherer | 1 |
| or gather | 1 |
| or harvest | 1 |
| to strengthen | 1 |
| were fortified | 1 |
| will be beyond | 1 |
| with walls up | 1 |
| you gather the grapes | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| fenced | 5 |
| against the fenced | 2 |
| in all the fenced | 2 |
| a defenced | 1 |
| a fenced | 1 |
| against all the defenced | 1 |
| against all the fenced | 1 |
| and fenced | 1 |
| and fenced up | 1 |
| and gathered | 1 |
| and mighty things | 1 |
| and though she should fortify | 1 |
| and upon every fenced | 1 |
| and walled up | 1 |
| as a grapegatherer | 1 |
| can be withholden | 1 |
| defenced | 1 |
| he shall cut off | 1 |
| him fenced | 1 |
| if grapegatherers | 1 |
| if the grapegatherers | 1 |
| neither gather | 1 |
| of itself in it nor gather | 1 |
| of the vintage | 1 |
| strong | 1 |
| the defenced | 1 |
| throughout all the fenced | 1 |
| to fortify | 1 |
| walled | 1 |
| when thou gatherest | 1 |
| will be restrained | 1 |
| yet the defenced | 1 |
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And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.
Read word by wordYou are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.
Read word by wordThe fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.
Read word by wordNevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
Read word by wordWhere can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”
Read word by wordAll these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages.
Read word by wordHear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
Read word by wordWhen you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
Read word by wordThey will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.
Read word by wordNow therefore give me this hill country that the LORD promised me on that day, for you yourself heard then that the Anakim were there, with great and fortified cities. Perhaps with the LORD’s help I will drive them out, as the LORD has spoken.”
Read word by wordAnd after they had gone out into the fields, gathered grapes from their vineyards, and trodden them, they held a festival and went into the house of their god; and as they ate and drank, they cursed Abimelech.
Read word by wordAnd David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your lord’s servants and pursue him, or he will find fortified cities and elude us.”
Read word by wordIn the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.
Read word by wordHave you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.
Read word by wordHe stationed troops in every fortified city of Judah and put garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.
Read word by wordHe appointed judges in the land, in each of the fortified cities of Judah.
Read word by wordAfter all these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, intending to conquer them for himself.
Read word by wordAfter this, Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David from west of Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate, and he brought it around the hill of Ophel and heightened it considerably. He also stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.
Read word by wordThey captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat and delighted in Your great goodness.
Read word by word“I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.
Read word by wordHe breaks the spirits of princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 76.13
against every high tower, against every fortified wall,
Read word by wordYou counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall.
Read word by wordIndeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
Read word by wordFor the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
Read word by wordIn the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.
Read word by wordHave you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine. Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer over the branches.”
Read word by wordThen I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the LORD.
Read word by wordCall to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
Read word by wordIf grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?
Read word by wordEven if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her,” declares the LORD.
Read word by wordMark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and another against Judah into fortified Jerusalem.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.25
Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’
Read word by wordIsrael has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.
Read word by word“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?
Read word by worda day of horn blast and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers.
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