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# צַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6862

**straits** — used 31 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

straits [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6862/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צַר³: straits, distress [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6862/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] straits, distress;—abs. צ׳ Jb 15:24 +, also c. art. בַּצַּר Ho 5:15 +, צָ֑ר ψ 4:2 +;—straits, distress Is 5:30; Jb 15:24 ψ 32:7; 60:13 108:13 צַר־וּמָצוֹק 119:143; עֵת־צ׳ Jb 38:23, cf. בַּצַּר Is 26:16, בַּצָּ֑ר ψ 4:2; צ׳־רוּהִי Jb 7:11 distress of my spirit; לֶחֶם צַר Is 30:20; לֹא צָ֗ר Is 63:9 usually he (י׳) had distress (reading לִוֹ Qr), but 𝔊 οὐ πρέσβυς, Du CheHpt. al. לֹא צִר, no messenger (but) his own face, etc.; cf. Jb 36:16, 19. Instead of sf. directly appended, ל sf. is used (only after ב): בַּצַּר־לִי in my distress ψ 18:7 = 2 S 22:7, ψ 66:14, so בְּיוֹם צַר(־)לִי 59:17; 102:3; בַּצַּר לְךָ Dt 4:30 (prob. orig. meant as בְּצַר, or בְּצֹר \[inf.\], Dr; so) בַּצַּר־לוֹ Is 25:4; 2 Ch 15:4, בַּצַּר לָהֶם Ho 5:15 ψ 107:6, 13, 19, 28, also (after רָאָה) 106:44—צַר 1 S 2:32 is corrupt. III. צַר v. II. צָרַר.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 25 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (31 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (27 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: distress (21); of distress (3); narrow (2).

## In the verses

[Job 41:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.7/#tree)

גַּ֭אֲוָה אֲפִיקֵ֣י מָֽגִנִּ֑ים סָ֝ג֗וּר חוֹתָ֥ם צָֽר׃

*Word for word:* pride \[is\].rows of.shields \[it.is\].shut.up a.seal tight

*JPS 1917:* His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

[Proverbs 24:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.10/#tree)

הִ֭תְרַפִּיתָ בְּי֥וֹם צָרָ֗ה צַ֣ר כֹּחֶֽכָה׃

*Word for word:* you.have.shown.yourself.without.courage in a.day of.trouble \[is\].narrow strength your

*JPS 1917:* If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small indeed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6862.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6862/): 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).