Tsarar צָרַר

Tsarar (Hebrew צָרַר, Strong's H6887) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to vex”. It occurs 54 times in 52 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H6887D: to vex

H6887B: to constrain

H6887C: to distress

H6887E: to rival

H6887A: to confine

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

Exodus

• Exodus 12:34
  And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.So the people took their dough before it was leavened, carrying it on their shoulders in kneading bowls wrapped in clothing.
• Exodus 23:22
  But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.But if you will listen carefully to his voice and do everything I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

Leviticus

• Leviticus 18:18
  Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.

Numbers

• Numbers 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 the Lord your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who attacks you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God and saved from your enemies.
• Numbers 25:17
  Vex the Midianites, and smite them:“Attack the Midianites and strike them dead.
• Numbers 25:18
  For they vex 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, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake.For they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, the woman who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.”
• Numbers 33:55
  But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you settle.

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 28:52
  And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.

Joshua

• Joshua 9:4
  They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;acted deceptively and set out as envoys, carrying on their donkeys worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.

1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 25:29
  Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.
• 1 Samuel 28:15
  And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.Then Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” “I am deeply distressed,” replied Saul. “The Philistines are fighting against me, and God has turned away from me. He no longer answers me, either by prophets or by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what to do.”

2 Samuel

• 2 Samuel 1:26
  I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were delightful to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.
• 2 Samuel 20:3
  And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 8:37
  If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 28:20
  And Tilgath–pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.Then Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came to Ahaz but afflicted him rather than strengthening him.
• 2 Chronicles 28:22
  And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord: this is that king Ahaz.In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.
• 2 Chronicles 33:12
  And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.

Esther

• Esther 3:10
  And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.So the king removed the signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.
• Esther 8:1
  On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews’ enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed his relation to her.
• Esther 9:10
  The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
• Esther 9:24
  Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy 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;For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.

Job

• Job 26:8
  He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.

Psalms

• Psalm 6:7
  Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.
• Psalm 7:4
  If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,
• Psalm 7:6
  Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.
• Psalm 8:2
  Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.
• Psalm 10:5
  His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.
• Psalm 23:5
  Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
• Psalm 31:9
  Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.
• Psalm 31:11
  I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends— they flee when they see me on the street.
• Psalm 42:10
  As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
• Psalm 59:16
  But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.But I will sing of Your strength and proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning. For You are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.
• Psalm 69:17
  And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!
• Psalm 69:19
  Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.You know my reproach, my shame and disgrace. All my adversaries are before You.
• Psalm 74:4
  Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs,
• Psalm 74:23
  Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.
• Psalm 102:2
  Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.Do not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call.
• Psalm 129:1
  Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:Many a time they have persecuted me from my youth— let Israel now declare—
• Psalm 129:2
  Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me.
• Psalm 143:12
  And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.And in Your loving devotion, cut off my enemies. Destroy all who afflict me, for I am Your servant.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 26:8
  As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.Like binding a stone into a sling is the giving of honor to a fool.
• Proverbs 30:4
  Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son— surely you know!

Isaiah

• Isaiah 8:16
  Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.Bind up the testimony and seal the law among my disciples.
• Isaiah 11:13
  The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart, and the adversaries of Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will no longer envy Judah, nor will Judah harass Ephraim.
• Isaiah 28:20
  For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket too small to wrap around you.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 10:18
  For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, at this time I will sling out the inhabitants of the land and bring distress upon them so that they may be captured.”
• Jeremiah 48:41
  Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men’s hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.Kirioth has been taken, and the strongholds seized. In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
• Jeremiah 49:22
  Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down, spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s mighty men will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

Hosea

• Hosea 4:19
  The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.
• Hosea 13:12
  The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up.

Amos

• Amos 5:12
  For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

Zephaniah

• Zephaniah 1:17
  And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.I will bring such distress on mankind that they will walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.

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).