Tsar צַר

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Tsar
צַר
Transliterationtsar
Strong's numberH6862 (H6862C, H6862B, H6862A, H6862D)
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glossenemy
Occurrences109 in 106 verses
Most frequent inPsalms (36)

Tsar (Hebrew צַר, Strong's H6862) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “enemy”. It occurs 109 times in 106 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H6862C: enemy

adversary, foe, enemy, oppressor

H6862B: distress

straits, distress

H6862A: narrow

narrow, tight

H6862D: hard

hard pebble, flint

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

Translated as

KJVenemies (26), adversaries (21), trouble (17), enemy (9), adversary (5), distress (4), affliction (3), narrow (2), strait (2), foes (2), enemy's (2), against (1), and 9 other renderings
BSBdistress (9), our enemies (7), his foes (7), enemy (6), your enemies (5), adversary (5), my foes (5), their trouble (4), my distress (3), their distress (3), their enemies (3), trouble (3), and 40 other renderings

Verses

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

Genesis

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Esther

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Ezekiel

Hosea

Amos

Micah

Nahum

Zechariah

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).
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