צוּר
tsur
“to confine”
Definition
to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile)
a primitive root;
- to bind, besiege, confine, cramp 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to confine, secure 1a2) to shut in, beseige 1a3) to shut up, enclose
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
צוּר appears 37 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the Ammonites. He came to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. And Joab attacked Rabbah and demolished it.
Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him.
In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.
When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
I will camp in a circle around you;I will besiege you with towersand set up siege works against you.
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