בָּצַרbâtsar

cut off, make inaccessible (especially by fortifying), enclose

Pronunciation: baw-tsar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1219

Meanings

Qal: cut off (Psalms 76:13; Leviticus 25:5; Deuteronomy 24:21)

Niph`al: be withheld (Genesis 11:6; Job 42:2)

Pi`el: fortify (Jeremiah 51:53; Isaiah 22:10)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 37 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 11:6 “Look!” he said. “The people are united, and they all speak the same language. After this, nothing they set out to do will be impossible for them!
  • Leviticus 25:5 And don’t store away the crops that grow on their own or gather the grapes from your unpruned vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.
  • Leviticus 25:11 This fiftieth year will be a jubilee for you. During that year you must not plant your fields or store away any of the crops that grow on their own, and don’t gather the grapes from your unpruned vines.
  • Numbers 13:28 But the people living there are powerful, and their towns are large and fortified. We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak!
  • Deuteronomy 1:28 Where can we go? Our brothers have demoralized us with their report. They tell us, “The people of the land are taller and more powerful than we are, and their towns are large, with walls rising high into the sky! We even saw giants there—the descendants of Anak!”’
  • Deuteronomy 3:5 These towns were all fortified with high walls and barred gates. We also took many unwalled villages at the same time.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).