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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 BoxExo 12:34 - And the people took their dough before it was leavened; their kneading-troughs bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:22 - But if thou shalt diligently hearken unto his voice, and do all that I shall say, then I will be an enemy to thine enemies, and an adversary to thine adversaries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:18 - And thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness beside her, during her life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:9 - And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before Jehovah your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:17 - Harass the Midianites, and smite them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:18 - for they have harassed you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague because of the matter of Peor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:55

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:55 - But if ye will not dispossess the inhabitants of the land from before you, those that ye let remain of them shall be thorns in your eyes, and pricks in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land wherein ye dwell.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:25 - then shalt thou give it for money, and bind the money together in thy hand, and go to the place which Jehovah thy God will choose,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:52

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:52 - And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and strong walls wherein thou trustedst come down, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:4 - then they also acted with craft, and they went prepared as on a journey, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine-flasks, old and rent and tied up;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:29 - And if a man is risen up to pursue thee and to seek thy life, the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with Jehovah thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out from the hollow of the sling.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:15 - And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul said, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines 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 thee, that thou mayest 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 thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant wast thou unto me; Thy love to me was wonderful, passing women's love.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:3 - And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women, concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in a house of confinement and maintained them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up unto 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 famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight, mildew, locust, caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their gates; whatever plague, whatever sickness there be:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:23 - And Naaman said, Consent to take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of raiment, and laid them upon two of his young men; and they bore them before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:22 - And in the time of his trouble he transgressed yet more against Jehovah, this king Ahaz.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:12 - And when he was in affliction, he besought Jehovah 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 - And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:1 - On that day did king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' oppressor to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther 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 Hammedatha, the oppressor of the Jews, they slew; but they laid not their hands on the prey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:24 - For Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the oppressor of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews 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 bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:7 - Mine eye wasteth away through grief; it hath grown old because of all mine oppressors.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:4 - If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me; (indeed I have freed him that without cause oppressed me;)

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:6 - Arise, Jehovah, in thine anger; lift thyself up against the raging of mine oppressors, and awake for me: thou hast commanded judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:2 - Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established praise because of thine adversaries, to still the enemy and the avenger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:5 - His ways always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:5 - Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; thou hast anointed my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:9 - Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am in trouble: mine eye wasteth away with vexation, my soul and my belly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:11 - More than to all mine oppressors, I am become exceedingly a reproach, even to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that see me without flee from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 42:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:10 - As with a crushing in my bones mine adversaries reproach me, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:17 - And hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in trouble: answer me speedily.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:19 - *Thou* knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 74:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:4 - Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs for signs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 74:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:23 - Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: the tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 129:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:1 - {A Song of degrees.} Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth -- oh let Israel say --

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 129:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:2 - Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth; yet they have not prevailed against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 143:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:12 - And in thy loving-kindness cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that oppress my soul: for I am thy servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:8 - As a bag of gems in a stoneheap, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:4 - Who hath ascended up into the heavens, and descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound the waters in a mantle? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou knowest?

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:13 - And the envy of Ephraim shall depart, and the troublers of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim will not envy Judah, and Judah will not trouble Ephraim:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:20 - For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow when he would wrap himself in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:18 - For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will this time sling out the inhabitants of the land, and will distress them, that they may be found.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:41 - Kerijoth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and at that day the heart of the mighty men of Moab 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 an eagle, and spread forth his wings against Bozrah; and at that day the heart of the mighty men of Edom 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, Jehovah, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled; my heart is turned within me, for I have grievously rebelled: without, the sword hath bereaved me, within, it is as death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:19 - The wind hath wrapped her up in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:12 - The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid by in store.

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