צַר
tsar · tsar
narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble ; (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)
Lexicon
Derivation: or צָר; from H6887 (צָרַר); compare as in H6864 (צֹר)
narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble ; (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)
- narrow
- (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble)
- also, a pebble
- (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: adversary, afflicted(-tion), anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, narrow, small, sorrow, strait, tribulation, trouble.
Letters
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to pursue the straight path › the head, the highest
To pursue the straight path of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of צַר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
109 occurrences · 109 OT · 0 NT · 67 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- in their trouble4 · 10%
- his enemies3 · 7%
- our enemies3 · 7%
- of their enemies3 · 7%
- of the enemy2 · 5%
- thine enemies2 · 5%
- in my distress2 · 5%
- us from our enemies2 · 5%
- to his adversaries2 · 5%
- trouble2 · 5%
- the adversary2 · 5%
- from trouble2 · 5%
- when thou art in tribulation1 · 2%
- now when the adversaries1 · 2%
- but when they in their trouble1 · 2%
- in a narrow1 · 2%
- me to mine enemies1 · 2%
- with thee is too strait1 · 2%
- an enemy1 · 2%
- unto him, art thou for us, or for our adversaries1 · 2%
- to him from his enemies1 · 2%
- thy foes1 · 2%
- to mine enemies1 · 2%
- lest their adversaries1 · 2%
- against1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.