צַרtsar
צַר: narrow, tight (2 Kings 6:1; Numbers 22:26; Proverbs 23:27; Isaiah 49:20; Isaiah 59:19)
Pronunciation: tsar · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6862
Meanings
צַר: straits, distress (Job 15:24; Hosea 5:15; Psalms 4:2; Isaiah 5:30; Psalms 32:7)
צַר: adversary, foe (Numbers 10:9; Amos 3:11; Esther 7:4; Zechariah 8:10; Lamentations 1:7)
צַר: flint, hard pebble (Isaiah 5:28)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 109 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 14:20 And blessed be God Most High, who has defeated your enemies for you.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of all the goods he had recovered.
- Numbers 10:9 “When you arrive in your own land and go to war against your enemies who attack you, sound the alarm with the trumpets. Then the Lord your God will remember you and rescue you from your enemies.
- Numbers 22:26 Then the angel of the Lord moved farther down the road and stood in a place too narrow for the donkey to get by at all.
- Numbers 24:8 God brought them out of Egypt; for them he is as strong as a wild ox. He devours all the nations that oppose him, breaking their bones in pieces, shooting them with arrows.
- Deuteronomy 4:30 “In the distant future, when you are suffering all these things, you will finally return to the Lord your God and listen to what he tells you.
- Deuteronomy 32:27 But I feared the taunt of Israel’s enemy, who might misunderstand and say, “Our own power has triumphed! The Lord had nothing to do with this!”’
See every passage
- Genesis 14:20
- Numbers 10:9, 22:26, 24:8
- Deuteronomy 4:30, 32:27, 32:41, 32:43, 33:7
- Joshua 5:13
- Judges 11:7
- 1 Samuel 2:32, 13:6
- 2 Samuel 22:7, 24:13, 24:14
- 2 Kings 6:1
- 1 Chronicles 12:17, 21:12, 21:13
- 2 Chronicles 15:4
- Ezra 4:1
- Nehemiah 4:11, 9:27
- Esther 7:4, 7:6
- Job 6:23, 7:11, 15:24, 16:9, 19:11, 36:16, 36:19, 38:23, 41:15
- Psalms 3:1, 4:1, 13:4, 18:6, 27:2, 27:12, 32:7, 44:5, 44:7, 44:10, 60:11, 60:12, 66:14, 74:10, 78:42, 78:61, 78:66, 81:14, 89:23, 89:42, 97:3, 105:24, 106:11, 106:44, 107:2, 107:6, 107:13, 107:19, 107:28, 108:12, 108:13, 112:8, 119:139, 119:143, 119:157, 136:24
- Proverbs 23:27, 24:10
- Isaiah 1:24, 5:28, 5:30, 9:11, 25:4, 26:11, 26:16, 30:20, 49:20, 59:18, 59:19, 63:9, 63:18, 64:2
- Jeremiah 30:16, 46:10, 48:5, 50:7
- Lamentations 1:5, 1:7, 1:10, 1:17, 1:20, 2:4, 2:17, 4:12
- Ezekiel 30:16, 39:23
- Hosea 5:15
- Amos 3:11
- Micah 5:9
- Nahum 1:2
- Zechariah 8:10
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).