צוּר

But if you will listen carefully to his voice and do everything I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

Exodus 23:22

• וְצַרְתִּ֖יvetzartiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will be a foe to

He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

Exodus 32:4

• וַיָּ֤צַרvaiyatzarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fashioned

Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”

Deuteronomy 2:9

• תָּ֙צַר֙tatzarverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you may provoke

But when you get close to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the Ammonites. I have given it to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”

Deuteronomy 2:19

• תְּצֻרֵ֖םtetzuremverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you provoke them

then exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place the LORD your God will choose.

Deuteronomy 14:25

• וְצַרְתָּ֤vetzartaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will secure

But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city.

Deuteronomy 20:12

• וְצַרְתָּ֖vetzartaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will lay siege

When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?

Deuteronomy 20:19

• תָצ֣וּרtatzurverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will lay siege

So he covertly sent messengers to Abimelech to say, “Look, Gaal son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem and are stirring up the city against you.

Judges 9:31

• צָרִ֥יםtzarimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: shutting up

Then Saul summoned all his troops to go to war at Keilah and besiege David and his men.

1 Samuel 23:8

• לָצ֥וּרlatzurpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to lay siege

In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 11:1

• וַיָּצֻ֖רוּvaiyatzuruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they laid siege

And Joab’s troops came and besieged Sheba in Abel-beth-maacah and built a siege ramp against the outer rampart of the city. As all the troops with Joab were battering the wall to topple it,

2 Samuel 20:15

• וַיָּצֻ֣רוּvaiyatzuruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they laid siege

He cast two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.

1 Kings 7:15

• וַיָּ֛צַרvaiyatzarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fashioned

Then Baasha son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against Nadab, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon of the Philistines while Nadab and all Israel were besieging the city.

1 Kings 15:27

• צָרִ֖יםtzarimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: laying siege

Then Omri and all the Israelites marched up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.

1 Kings 16:17

• וַיָּצֻ֖רוּvaiyatzuruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they laid siege

Now Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army. Accompanied by thirty-two kings with their horses and chariots, he marched up, besieged Samaria, and waged war against it.

1 Kings 20:1

• וַיָּ֙צַר֙vaiyatzarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he laid siege

But Naaman insisted, “Please, take two talents.” And he urged Gehazi to accept them. Then he tied up two talents of silver in two bags along with two sets of clothing and gave them to two of his servants, who carried them ahead of Gehazi.

2 Kings 5:23

• וַיָּצַר֩vaiyatzarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he secured

Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria.

2 Kings 6:24

• וַיָּ֖צַרvaiyatzarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he laid siege

So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.

2 Kings 6:25

• צָרִ֣יםtzarimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: laying siege

Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal scribe and the high priest would go up, count the money brought into the house of the LORD, and tie it up in bags.

2 Kings 12:10

• וַיָּצֻ֙רוּ֙vaiyatzuruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they tied up

Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him.

2 Kings 16:5

• וַיָּצֻ֙רוּ֙vaiyatzuruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they laid siege

Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.

2 Kings 17:5

• וַיָּ֥צַרvaiyatzarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he laid siege

In the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it.

2 Kings 18:9

• וַיָּ֥צַרvaiyatzarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he laid siege

And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.

2 Kings 24:11

• צָרִ֥יםtzarimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: laying siege

In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the Ammonites. He came to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. And Joab attacked Rabbah and demolished it.

1 Chronicles 20:1

• וַיָּ֣צַרvaiyatzarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he besieged

When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

2 Chronicles 6:28

• יָֽצַר־yatzar-verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will lay siege

By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.

Esther 8:11

• הַצָּרִ֥יםhatzarimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: which attacks

You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.

Psalms 139:5

• צַרְתָּ֑נִיtzartaniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you enclose me

If she is a wall, we will build a tower of silver upon her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.

Song of Solomon 8:9

• נָצ֥וּרnatzurverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will shut up

A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”

Isaiah 21:2

• צוּרִ֣יtzuriverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: lay siege

I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.

Isaiah 29:3

• וְצַרְתִּ֤יvetzartiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will lay siege

this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.

Jeremiah 21:4

• הַצָּרִ֣יםhatzarimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who are laying siege

Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who besiege you will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war.

Jeremiah 21:9

• הַצָּרִ֤יםhatzarimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who are laying siege

At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.

Jeremiah 32:2

• צָרִ֖יםtzarimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: laying siege

Pharaoh’s army had left Egypt, and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report, they withdrew from Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 37:5

• הַצָּרִ֤יםhatzarimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who were laying siege

In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army and laid siege to the city.

Jeremiah 39:1

• וַיָּצֻ֖רוּvaiyatzuruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they laid siege

Then take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 4:3

• וְצַרְתָּ֣vetzartaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will lay siege

But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment.

Ezekiel 5:3

• וְצַרְתָּ֥vetzartaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will confine

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.

Daniel 1:1

• וַיָּ֥צַרvaiyatzarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he laid siege