צָרַרtsârar

צָרַר: Hiph`il: suffer distress, simile (Jeremiah 4:31; Jeremiah 49:24; Jeremiah 48:41)

Pronunciation: tsaw-rar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6887

Meanings

צָרַר: shew hostility toward, vex

Qal: shew hostility toward, treat with enmity, vex, harass, also participle as substantive (construct or with suffix) vexer, harasser (Numbers 33:55; Psalms 129:1; Psalms 129:2)

צָרַר: make a rival-wife

Qal: to make, a rival-wife (Leviticus 18:18)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 54 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 12:34 The Israelites took their bread dough before yeast was added. They wrapped their kneading boards in their cloaks and carried them on their shoulders.
  • Exodus 23:22 But if you are careful to obey him, following all my instructions, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will oppose those who oppose you.
  • Leviticus 18:18 “While your wife is living, do not marry her sister and have sexual relations with her, for they would be rivals.
  • 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 25:17 “Attack the Midianites and destroy them,
  • Numbers 25:18 because they assaulted you with deceit and tricked you into worshiping Baal of Peor, and because of Cozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, who was killed at the time of the plague because of what happened at Peor.”
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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).