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Lexicon :: Strong's H6887 - ṣārar

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צָרַר
Transliteration
ṣārar
Pronunciation
tsaw-rar'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1973,1974

Strong’s Definitions

צָרַר tsârar, tsaw-rar'; a primitive root; to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive:—adversary, (be in) afflict(-ion), beseige, bind (up), (be in, bring) distress, enemy, narrower, oppress, pangs, shut up, be in a strait (trouble), vex.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 58x

The KJV translates Strong's H6887 in the following manner: enemy (14x), distress (7x), bind up (6x), vex (6x), afflict (4x), besiege (4x), adversary (3x), strait (3x), trouble (2x), bound (2x), pangs (2x), miscellaneous (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 58x
The KJV translates Strong's H6887 in the following manner: enemy (14x), distress (7x), bind up (6x), vex (6x), afflict (4x), besiege (4x), adversary (3x), strait (3x), trouble (2x), bound (2x), pangs (2x), miscellaneous (5x).

  1. to bind, be narrow, be in distress, make narrow, cause distress, besiege, be straitened, be bound

    1. (Qal)

      1. to bind, tie up, shut up

      2. to be scant, be cramped, be in straits

    2. (Pual) to be bound, be tied up

    3. (Hiphil)

      1. to make narrow for, cause distress to, press hard upon

      2. to suffer distress

  2. to show hostility toward, vex

    1. (Qal)

      1. to show hostility toward, treat with enmity, vex, harass

      2. vexer, harasser (participle)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
צָרַר tsârar, tsaw-rar'; a primitive root; to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive:—adversary, (be in) afflict(-ion), beseige, bind (up), (be in, bring) distress, enemy, narrower, oppress, pangs, shut up, be in a strait (trouble), vex.
STRONGS H6887: Abbreviations
† [צָרַר] verb denominative
Hiph. suffer distress (specifically of travail, compare Jeremiah 4:31; Jeremiah 49:24); — Participle לֵב אִשָּׁה מְצֵרָה (in simile) Jeremiah 48:41; Jeremiah 49:22.

† II. צָרַר verb shew hostility toward, vex (Late Hebrew צַר foe; Arabic bdb086501 harm, damage, Sabean צֿר war, foe MordtmHim. Inschr. 60. 71 SabDenkm24 CISiv. 174, 1. 6 HomChrest. 125; Ethiopic bdb086502 be hostile, in derived species and derivatives; Assyrian ṣarâru, be hostile, ṣarru, foe; Arabic bdb086503, Assyrian ṣirritu, Syriac bdb086504, all = rival-wife, so (? Hebrew influence) Targum צָרָא 1 Samuel 1:6; see especially LagDeceased Wife's Sister, GGN. 1882, No. 13; = Mi. 125 ff. Dr1 Samuel 1:6); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person plural וְצָֽרֲרוּ Numbers 33:55 consecutive, suffix צְרָרוּנִי Psalm 129:1; Psalm 129:2; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יָצֹר Isaiah 11:13; Infinitive absolute צָרוֺר Numbers 25:17; Participle active צֹרֵר Numbers 10:9, plural suffix צֹרֲרי Psalm 31:12 +, etc.; — shew hostility toward, treat with enmity, vex, harass, with accusative of person Isaiah 11:13; Numbers 10:9; Numbers 25:17; once with ל person Numbers 25:18; also participle as substantive (construct or with suffix) vexer, harasser, Amos 5:12; Isaiah 11:13; Exodus 23:22 (E), Psalm 6:8; Psalm 7:5; Psalm 7:7; Psalm 8:3; Psalm 10:5; Psalm 23:5; Psalm 31:12; Psalm 42:11; Psalm 69:20; Psalm 74:4; Psalm 74:23; Psalm 143:12; Esther 3:10; Esther 8:1; Esther 9:10, 24. — Leviticus 18:18 see [צָרַר] below.

[צָרַר] verb denominative make a rival-wife; —
Qal Infinitive construct לִצְרֹר Leviticus 18:18 to make [her] a rival-wife (LagGGN, 1882, 406 Dr-WhLv Baenl. v).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

23:22

Leviticus

18:18; 18:18

Numbers

10:9; 10:9; 25:17; 25:17; 25:18; 33:55

1 Samuel

1:6; 1:6

Esther

3:10; 8:1; 9:10; 9:24

Psalms

6:8; 7:5; 7:7; 8:3; 10:5; 23:5; 31:12; 31:12; 42:11; 69:20; 74:4; 74:23; 129:1; 129:2; 143:12

Isaiah

11:13; 11:13; 11:13

Jeremiah

4:31; 48:41; 49:22; 49:24

Amos

5:12

H6887

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Strong's Number H6887 matches the Hebrew צָרַר (ṣārar),
which occurs 53 times in 52 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Exo 12:34–Hos 13:12)

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:34 - The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:22 - But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:18 - "'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:9 - When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and you shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:17 - Vex the Midyanim, and strike them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:18 - for they vex you with their wiles, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Pe`or, and in the matter of Kozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midyan, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Pe`or.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:55 - But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those who you let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land in which you dwell.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:25 - then shall you turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:52

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:52 - They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:4 - they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and wine-skins, old and torn and bound up,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:29 - Though men be risen up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God; and the souls of your enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:15 - Shemu'el said to Sha'ul, Why have you disquieted me, to bring me up? Sha'ul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Pelishtim make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answers me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:26 - I am distressed for you, my brother Yonatan: Very pleasant have you been to me: Your love to me was wonderful, Passing the love of women.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:3 - David came to his house at Yerushalayim; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn't go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37 - If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, arbeh or caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there be;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:23 - Na`aman said, Be pleased to take two talents. He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they bore them before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:22 - In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD, this same king Achaz.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:12 - When he was in distress, he begged the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:10 - The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedata the Agagite, the Yehudim' enemy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:1 - On that day did the king Achashverosh give the house of Haman the Yehudim' enemy to Ester the queen. Mordekhai came before the king; for Ester had told what he was to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:10 - the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedata, the Yehudi's enemy, killed they; but they didn't lay their hand on the spoil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:24 - because Haman the son of Hammedata, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Yehudim, had plotted against the Yehudim to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:8 - He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, And the cloud is not burst under them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:7 - My eye wastes away because of grief; It grows old because of all my adversaries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:4 - If I have rewarded evil to him who was at shalom with me (Yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:6 - Arise, LORD, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:2 - From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, Because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:5 - His ways are prosperous at all times; He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight: As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:5 - You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:9 - Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:11 - Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 42:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:10 - As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:17 - Don't hide your face from your servant, For I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:19 - You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 74:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:4 - Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 74:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:23 - Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 129:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:1 - A Ma`alot Song. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Yisra'el now say,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 129:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:2 - Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, Yet they have not prevailed against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 143:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:12 - In your lovingkindness, cut off my enemies, And destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:8 - As one who binds a stone in a sling, So is he who gives honor to a fool.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:4 - Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the eretz? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:16 - Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my talmidim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:13 - The envy also of Efrayim shall depart, and those who vex Yehudah shall be cut off: Efrayim shall not envy Yehudah, and Yehudah shall not vex Efrayim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:20 - For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:18 - For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:41 - Keriyot is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Mo'av at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:22 - Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Botzrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:20 - See, LORD; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:19 - The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; And they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:12 - The guilt of Efrayim is stored up. His sin is stored up.

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