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 39Old Testament books
- 31spellings
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.
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.
The words it stands beside
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.’”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- הַבְּצֻר֑וֹתhabetzurotthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine pluraltagged: the fortified
He appointed judges in the land, in each of the fortified cities of Judah.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- בְּצֻרוֹת֮betzurotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: fortified
Job
one use
“I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.
- 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.
- יִ֭בְצֹרyivtzorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he humbles
Isaiah
six uses
against every high tower, against every fortified wall,
- בְצוּרָֽה׃vetzurahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: fortified
You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.’
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- הַבְּצֻר֔וֹתhabetzurotthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine pluraltagged: the fortified
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.
