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# בָּצַר

Biblical Hebrew

**cut off** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cut off [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5e6_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּצַר: vb. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5e6_5b7_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. cut off, make inaccessible (especially by fortifying), enclose (NH id., Aramaic בְּצַר, ܒܨܰܪ (Pa. diminish, subtract), perhaps cf. Arabic بُصْرٌ side, edge, بِصْرٌ, etc., rough stone, أَرْضٌ بَصِرَةٌ land in wh. are sharp stones (cf. Lane))— Impf. יִבְצֹר ψ 76:13; 2 ms. תִּבְצֹר Lv 25:5 Dt 24:21, וַיִּבְצְרוּ Ju 9:27, תִּבְצְרוּ Lv 25:11; Pt. act. בּוֹצֵר Je 6:9, בֹּֽצְרִים Je 49:9 Ob 5; pass. m. בָּצוּר Zc 11:2 Kt (Qr בָּצִיר), f. בְּצוּרָה Is 2:15 + 3 times + Ez 21:25 v. infr.; pl. f. בְּצוּרוֹת Ez 36:35, בְּצֻרוֹת Nu 13:28 + 14 times, בְּצוּרֹת Dt 1:28 Ne 9:25, בְּצֻרֹת Dt 3:5; 9:1;—cut off, grape-clusters, ענבים Lv 25:5, cf. v 11 (obj. נזיר), Dt 24:21 Ju 9:27 (obj. in both, כרם); hence Pt. act. grape-gathering, -gatherer Je 6:9; 49:9 Ob 5; fig. cut off (= take away) ψ 76:13 (obj. רוח נגידים); most often Pt. pass. cut off, made inaccessible, De Is 2:15 = fortified, always f.; generally adj. c. עיר, ערים; Nu 13:28 Dt 1:28; 3:5; 9:1 Jos 14:12 2 S 20:6 2 K 18:13 = Is 36:1 2 K 19:25 = Is 37:26 2 Ch 17:2; 19:5; 32:1; 33:14 Ne 9:25 Is 25:2; 27:10 Ez 36:35 Ho 8:14 Zp 1:16; rarely c. חומה Dt 28:52 Is 2:15 Je 15:20; יער הב׳ Zc 11:2 (read Kt); once, subst. of secrets, mysteries (= unattainable things) Je 33:3;—ב׳ Ez 21:25 𝔊 Sm Co בְּתוֹכָהּ, doubtless right. Impf. יִבָּצֵר be withheld Gn 11:6 (מֵהֶם), Jb 42:2 (מִמְּךָ). Impf. 3 fs. תְּבַצֵּר Je 51:53 fortify; so Inf. לְבַּצֵר Is 22:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fortify (1); he humbles (1); it is withheld (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 76:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.76.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.76.13/#tree)

יִ֭בְצֹר ר֣וּחַ נְגִידִ֑ים נ֝וֹרָ֗א לְמַלְכֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* he.humbles \[the\].spirit of.rulers \[he.is\].to.be.feared by.\[the\] kings of.\[the\].earth

*JPS 1917:* He minisheth the spirit of princes; He is terrible to the kings of the earth.

[Job 42:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.42.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.42.2/#tree)

יָ֭דַעְתִּי כִּי־כֹ֣ל תּוּכָ֑ל וְלֹא־יִבָּצֵ֖ר מִמְּךָ֣ מְזִמָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* I.know (dm).that everything you.are.able and not it.is.withheld from you a.purpose

*JPS 1917:* I know that Thou canst do every thing, and that no purpose can be withholden from Thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5e6_5b7_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5e6_5b7_5e8/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).