צַר
tsar
“narrow”
Definition
narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble ; (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)
or צָר; from H6887 (צָרַר); compare as in H6864 (צֹר)
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Grammar & Morphology
Adjective
H:A
Hebrew Adjective
Occurrences
צַר appears 86 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
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Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and expel me from my father’s house? Why then have you come to me now, when you are in distress?”
Zion stretches out her hands,but there is no one to comfort her.The LORD has decreed against Jacobthat his neighbors become his foes.Jerusalem has becomean unclean thing among them.
Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,and He saved them from their distress.
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