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# צרר

Biblical Hebrew

**suffer distress** — used 2 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

suffer distress [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5e8_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** (√ of foll.; cf. Arabic ظَرَّ be sharp (? denom.), ظِرٌّ, ظُرَرٌ sharp-edged hard stone, Assyrian ṣurtu, appar. knife RJ HarperBAS ii. 435; Syriac ܛܰܪܳܢܳܐ rock, stone, flint).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I will treat as a foe (1); the foes (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 11:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.11.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.11.13/#tree)

וְסָ֙רָה֙ קִנְאַ֣ת אֶפְרַ֔יִם וְצֹרְרֵ֥י יְהוּדָ֖ה יִכָּרֵ֑תוּ אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ לֹֽא־יְקַנֵּ֣א אֶת־יְהוּדָ֔ה וִֽיהוּדָ֖ה לֹֽא־יָצֹ֥ר אֶת־אֶפְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.come.to.an.end the.jealousy of.Ephraim and the.foes of.Judah they.will.be.cut.off Ephraim not it.will.be.jealous.of (et) Judah and Judah not it.will.treat.as.foes (et) Ephraim

*JPS 1917:* The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and they that harass Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

[Exodus 23:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.22/#tree)

כִּ֣י אִם־שָׁמֹ֤עַ תִּשְׁמַע֙ בְּקֹל֔וֹ וְעָשִׂ֕יתָ כֹּ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲדַבֵּ֑ר וְאָֽיַבְתִּי֙ אֶת־אֹ֣יְבֶ֔יךָ וְצַרְתִּ֖י אֶת־צֹרְרֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) if carefully.(listen) you.will.listen to voice his and you.will.do all that I.will.say and I.will.be.an.enemy.to (et) enemies your and I.will.treat.as.a.foe (et) foes your

*JPS 1917:* But if thou shalt indeed hearken unto his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e6_5e8_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5e8_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).