tsar H6862

צַר (tsar) means “narrow” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

צַר Hebrew · H6862 109 tagged occurrences in 106 verses

Pronunciation guide: tsar Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H6862A

צַר · tsar · narrow

narrow, tight

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TBESH · H6862B

צַר · tsar · distress

straits, distress

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TBESH · H6862C

צַר · tsar · enemy

adversary, foe, enemy, oppressor

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TBESH · H6862D

צַר · tsar · hard

hard pebble, flint

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

or צָר; from H6887 (צָרַר); compare as in H6864 (צֹר) narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble ; (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)

KJV glosses: adversary, afflicted(-tion), anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, narrow, small, sorrow, strait, tribulation, trouble.

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How translators render H6862

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
distress	5
his foes	4
in their trouble	4
in my distress	3
the adversary	3
your enemies	3
against the enemy	2
an enemy	2
distressed	2
from our enemies	2
my foes	2
of distress	2
of my foes	2
of the enemy	2
of their enemies	2
on his foes	2
our enemies	2
the enemy	2
their foes	2
against his foes	1
among his enemies	1
an adversary	1
and distress	1
and foes	1
and my foes	1
and our enemies	1
and the adversaries	1
and their enemies	1
are like flint	1
become his foes	1
but in their distress	1
but our enemies	1
for our enemies	1
for your enemies	1
from trouble	1
he too was afflicted	1
her enemies	1
her foes	1
hostile	1
how small	1
i am deeply distressed	1
in a narrow	1
in danger	1
in distress	1
in the anguish	1
in their affliction	1
in their distress	1
into enemy	1
is a narrow	1
is too small	1
is too small for us	1
like a foe	1
like a raging	1
my adversary	1
my enemies	1
of adversity	1
of enemies	1
of his foes	1
of the adversary	1
of their distress	1
of trouble	1
of your foes	1
on his adversaries and repay those who hate him	1
on my adversaries	1
our foes	1
such distress	1
than their foes	1
the foe	1
the foes	1
their adversaries	1
to his enemies	1
to my enemies	1
to your enemies	1
trouble	1
when the enemies	1
when you are in distress	1
will the enemy	1
you are in distress	1
your adversaries	1
your foes	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
his enemies	4
in their trouble	4
of their enemies	3
our enemies	3
from trouble	2
in my distress	2
of the enemy	2
the adversary	2
thine enemies	2
to his adversaries	2
trouble	2
us from our enemies	2
a close	1
a narrow	1
against	1
against their adversaries	1
although the enemy	1
an adversary	1
an enemy	1
and all thine adversaries	1
and mine enemies	1
and our adversaries	1
as an adversary	1
because of the affliction	1
but when they in their trouble	1
distresses	1
from his enemies	1
from the enemy	1
he was afflicted	1
her adversaries	1
her the adversaries	1
him of his adversaries	1
his adversaries	1
his foes	1
how long shall the adversary	1
i am in trouble	1
in a narrow	1
in distress	1
in his distress	1
in the anguish	1
in their affliction	1
in trouble	1
into the enemys	1
lest their adversaries	1
like flint	1
me because mine enemies	1
me from the enemys	1
me from trouble	1
me of mine adversaries	1
me to mine enemies	1
mine enemies	1
mine enemy	1
now when the adversaries	1
of adversity	1
of his adversaries	1
of mine enemies	1
of my trouble	1
of thine adversaries	1
of thine enemies	1
of trouble	1
on his adversaries	1
our adversaries	1
small	1
sorrow	1
than their enemies	1
that the adversary	1
that trouble	1
the adversaries	1
the enemies	1
the enemy	1
thee out of the strait	1
their affliction	1
their enemies	1
them and their adversaries	1
them from the enemy	1
those that trouble	1
thou for us or for our adversaries	1
thy foes	1
to mine enemies	1
to thine adversaries	1
too strait	1
upon his enemies	1
upon thine adversaries	1
when i was in trouble	1
when the enemy	1
when thou art in tribulation	1
with thee is too strait	1

Verses containing H6862

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Genesis 14:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.
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Numbers 10:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who attacks you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God and saved from your enemies.
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Numbers 22:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the angel of the LORD moved on ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn to the right or left.
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Numbers 24:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows.
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Deuteronomy 4:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.
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Deuteronomy 32:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”
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Deuteronomy 32:41 · BSB · 1 occurrence
when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.
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Deuteronomy 32:43 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Rejoice, O heavens, with Him, and let all God’s angels worship Him. Rejoice, O nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His children. He will take vengeance on His adversaries and repay those who hate Him; He will cleanse His land and His people.
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Deuteronomy 33:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And concerning Judah he said: “O LORD, hear the cry of Judah and bring him to his people. With his own hands he defends his cause, but may You be a help against his foes.”
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Joshua 5:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in His hand. Joshua approached Him and asked, “Are You for us or for our enemies?”
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Judges 11:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and expel me from my father’s house? Why then have you come to me now, when you are in distress?”
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1 Samuel 2:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You will see distress in My dwelling place. Despite all that is good in Israel, no one in your house will ever again reach old age.
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1 Samuel 13:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Seeing that they were in danger because their troops were hard-pressed, the men of Israel hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in cellars and cisterns.
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2 Samuel 22:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried out to my God. And from His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for help reached His ears.
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2 Samuel 24:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
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2 Samuel 24:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”
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2 Kings 6:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Please take note that the place where we meet with you is too small for us.
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1 Chronicles 12:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And David went out to meet them, saying, “If you have come to me in peace to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my enemies when my hands are free of violence, may the God of our fathers see it and judge you.”
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Source alternate reference: 12.18
1 Chronicles 21:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
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1 Chronicles 21:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”
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2 Chronicles 15:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought Him, and He was found by them.
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Ezra 4:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the LORD, the God of Israel,
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Nehemiah 4:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And our enemies said, “Before they know or see a thing, we will come into their midst, kill them, and put an end to the work.”
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Source alternate reference: 4.5
Nehemiah 9:27 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies.
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Esther 7:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”
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Esther 7:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Esther replied, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked man—Haman!” And Haman stood in terror before the king and queen.
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Job 6:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
deliver me from the hand of the enemy; redeem me from the grasp of the ruthless’?
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Job 7:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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Job 15:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.
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Job 16:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
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Job 19:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
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Job 36:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Indeed, He drew you from the jaws of distress to a spacious and broad place, to a table full of richness.
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Job 36:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?
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Job 38:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?
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Job 41:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.
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Source alternate reference: 41.7
Psalms 3:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom. O LORD, how my foes have increased! How many rise up against me!
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Source alternate reference: 3.2
Psalms 4:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.
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Source alternate reference: 4.2
Psalms 13:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
lest my enemy say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes rejoice when I fall.
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Source alternate reference: 13.5
Psalms 18:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for His help reached His ears.
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Source alternate reference: 18.7
Psalms 27:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.
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Psalms 27:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
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Psalms 32:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah
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Psalms 44:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.
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Source alternate reference: 44.6
Psalms 44:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For You save us from our enemies; You put those who hate us to shame.
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Source alternate reference: 44.8
Psalms 44:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
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Source alternate reference: 44.11
Psalms 60:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.
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Source alternate reference: 60.13
Psalms 60:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.
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Source alternate reference: 60.14
Psalms 66:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the vows that my lips promised and my mouth spoke in my distress.
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Psalms 74:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?
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Psalms 78:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from the adversary,
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