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Hebrew · Strong's H4712

מֵצַר

metsarmay-tsar'

something tight, i.e. (figuratively) trouble

1890 spelling: mêtsar

Strong's Dictionary · 1890

something tight, i.e. (figuratively) trouble

Rendered in the KJV as

distress, pain, strait.

  • 3
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 3
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 3 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 3

  • הַ֭מֵּצַ֥ר1
  • הַמְּצָרִֽים׃ ס1
  • וּמְצָרֵ֣י1

How it is rendered · 3

  • and [the] distresses of1
  • the distress1
  • the narrow places1

The sense the word carries at each spot: how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 3

  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HC/Ncmpc · 1
  • HTd/Ncmpa · 1
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 1

All 3, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Psalms carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0: their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).