Yatsar יָצַר

Yatsar (Hebrew יָצַר, Strong's H3334) is a Hebrew verb meaning “be distressed”. It occurs 10 times in 10 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Yatsar, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 32:7
  Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.

Judges

• Judges 2:15
  Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.Wherever Israel marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them to bring calamity, just as He had sworn to them. So they were greatly distressed.
• Judges 10:9
  Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, and Israel was in deep distress.

1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 30:6
  And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.And David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of every man grieved for his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.

2 Samuel

• 2 Samuel 13:2
  And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her.Amnon was sick with frustration over his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed implausible for him to do anything to her.

Nehemiah

• Nehemiah 9:27
  Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies.

Job

• Job 18:7
  The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.
• Job 20:22
  In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 4:12
  When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.When you walk, your steps will not be impeded; when you run, you will not stumble.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 49:19
  For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).