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Hebrew verb · H1219

בָּצַר

batsarbaw-tsar'

to gather/restrain/fortify

37 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: bâtsar

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1219is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 18 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 31
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1219

to gather grapes; also to be isolated (i.e. inaccessible by height or fortification)

The King James renders it: cut off, (de-) fenced, fortify, (grape) gather(-er), mighty things, restrain, strong, wall (up), withhold.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

batsar is rendered "to gather/restrain/fortify". It stands 37 times in the Hebrew text, across eighteen books.

  • Six of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 11:6And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.
  • The Greek text spells it thirty-one different ways.

The first use

And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

Genesis 11:6יִבָּצֵ֣ר

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in eighteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 21 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • fortified14
  • the fortified7
  • you will gather grapes3
  • and fortified2
  • grape gatherers2
  • and incomprehensible1
  • and the fortified1
  • and they gathered grapes1
  • he humbles1
  • it is withheld1
  • it will be withheld1
  • it will fortify1

and 2 more, 37 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

בָּצַעbatsato cut offUses16
בָּצִירbatsirvintageUses8
בָּצֵקbatseqdoughUses5
בָּצֵקbatseqto swellUses2
בָּצוֹרbatsorold-growthUsesnot recorded

All 37, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

31 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • הַבְּצֻר֖וֹת4
  • בְּצֻרֽוֹת׃2
  • בֹּֽצְרִים֙2
  • הַבְּצֻר֔וֹת2
  • בְצוּרָ֖ה1
  • בְּצוּרָה֙1
  • בְּצוּרָ֔ה1
  • בְצוּרָֽה׃1
  • בְּצוּרָֽה׃1
  • בְּצוּר֥וֹת1
  • בְּצֻר֤וֹת1
  • בְּצֻר֛וֹת1

and 19 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · feminine plural9HAafpa
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine plural7HTd/Aafpa
  • verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singular5HVqsfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine plural3HC/Aafpa
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVNi3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqi2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural2HVqrmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine plural1HC/Td/Aafpa
  • Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
  • preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vpcc
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HR/Vqrmsa
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVpi3fs

Genesis

one use
  • And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

    Genesis 11:6

    • יִבָּצֵ֣רyibatzerverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be withheld

Leviticus

two uses
  • You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.

    Leviticus 25:5

    • תִבְצֹ֑רtivtzorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will gather grapes
  • The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.

    Leviticus 25:11

    • תִבְצְר֖וּtivtzeruverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will gather grapes

Numbers

one use
  • Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.

    Numbers 13:28

    • בְּצֻר֤וֹתbetzurotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: fortified

Deuteronomy

five uses
  • Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”

    Deuteronomy 1:28

    • וּבְצוּרֹ֖תuvetzurotconjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine pluraltagged: and fortified
  • All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages.

    Deuteronomy 3:5

    • בְּצֻר֛וֹתbetzurotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: fortified
  • Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.

    Deuteronomy 9:1

    • וּבְצֻרֹ֖תuvetzurotconjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine pluraltagged: and fortified
  • When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.

    Deuteronomy 24:21

    • תִבְצֹר֙tivtzorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will gather grapes
  • 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.

    Deuteronomy 28:52

    • וְהַבְּצֻר֔וֹתvehabetzurotconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine pluraltagged: and the fortified

Joshua

one use
  • Now therefore give me this hill country that the LORD promised me on that day, for you yourself heard then that the Anakim were there, with great and fortified cities. Perhaps with the LORD’s help I will drive them out, as the LORD has spoken.”

    Joshua 14:12

    • בְּצֻר֔וֹתbetzurotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: fortified

Judges

one use
  • And after they had gone out into the fields, gathered grapes from their vineyards, and trodden them, they held a festival and went into the house of their god; and as they ate and drank, they cursed Abimelech.

    Judges 9:27

    • וַֽיִּבְצְר֤וּvaiyivtzeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they gathered grapes

2 Samuel

one use
  • And David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your lord’s servants and pursue him, or he will find fortified cities and elude us.”

    2 Samuel 20:6

    • בְּצֻר֖וֹתbetzurotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: fortified

2 Kings

two uses
  • In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.

    2 Kings 18:13

    • הַבְּצֻר֖וֹתhabetzurotthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine pluraltagged: the fortified
  • Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.

    2 Kings 19:25

    • בְּצֻרֽוֹת׃betzurotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: fortified

2 Chronicles

four uses
  • He stationed troops in every fortified city of Judah and put garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.

    2 Chronicles 17:2

    • הַבְּצֻר֑וֹתhabetzurotthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine pluraltagged: the fortified
  • He appointed judges in the land, in each of the fortified cities of Judah.

    2 Chronicles 19:5

    • הַבְּצֻר֖וֹתhabetzurotthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine pluraltagged: the fortified
  • After all these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, intending to conquer them for himself.

    2 Chronicles 32:1

    • הַבְּצֻר֔וֹתhabetzurotthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine pluraltagged: the fortified
  • After this, Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David from west of Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate, and he brought it around the hill of Ophel and heightened it considerably. He also stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

    2 Chronicles 33:14

    • הַבְּצֻר֖וֹתhabetzurotthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine pluraltagged: the fortified

Nehemiah

one use
  • They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat and delighted in Your great goodness.

    Nehemiah 9:25

    • בְּצֻרוֹת֮betzurotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: fortified

Job

one use
  • “I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.

    Job 42:2

    • יִבָּצֵ֖רyibatzerverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is withheld

Psalms

one use
  • He breaks the spirits of princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth.

    Psalms 76:12

    • יִ֭בְצֹרyivtzorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he humbles

Isaiah

six uses
  • against every high tower, against every fortified wall,

    Isaiah 2:15

    • בְצוּרָֽה׃vetzurahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: fortified
  • You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall.

    Isaiah 22:10

    • לְבַצֵּ֖רlevatzerpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to fortify
  • Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

    Isaiah 25:2

    • בְצוּרָ֖הvetzurahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: fortified
  • For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.

    Isaiah 27:10

    • בְּצוּרָה֙betzurahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: fortified
  • In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.

    Isaiah 36:1

    • הַבְּצֻר֖וֹתhabetzurotthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine pluraltagged: the fortified
  • Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.

    Isaiah 37:26

    • בְּצֻרֽוֹת׃betzurotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: fortified

Jeremiah

five uses
  • This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine. Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer over the branches.”

    Jeremiah 6:9

    • כְּבוֹצֵ֖רkevotzerpreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: like a grape gatherer
  • Then I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 15:20

    • בְּצוּרָ֔הbetzurahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: fortified
  • Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

    Jeremiah 33:3

    • וּבְצֻר֖וֹתuvetzurotconjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine pluraltagged: and incomprehensible
  • If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?

    Jeremiah 49:9

    • בֹּֽצְרִים֙botzerimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: grape gatherers
  • Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her,” declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 51:53

    • תְבַצֵּ֖רtevatzerverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will fortify

Ezekiel

two uses
  • Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and another against Judah into fortified Jerusalem.

    Ezekiel 21:20

    • בְּצוּרָֽה׃betzurahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: fortified
  • Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’

    Ezekiel 36:35

    • בְּצוּר֥וֹתbetzurotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: fortified

Hosea

one use
  • Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.

    Hosea 8:14

    • בְּצֻר֑וֹתbetzurotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: fortified

Obadiah

one use
  • “If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?

    Obadiah 1:5

    • בֹּֽצְרִים֙botzerimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: grape gatherers

Zephaniah

one use
  • a day of horn blast and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers.

    Zephaniah 1:16

    • הַבְּצֻר֔וֹתhabetzurotthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine pluraltagged: the fortified

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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