צַרtsar/tsar/
HebrewH6862103 occurrences (KJV)
narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble ; (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)
KJV renders it: adversary, afflicted(-tion), anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, narrow, small, sorrow, strait, tribulation, trouble.
Where it appears(showing the first 100 of 103)
- Gen 14:20and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.
- Num 10:9When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.
- Num 22:26Yahweh’s angel went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
- Num 24:8God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.
- Deut 4:30When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice.
- Deut 32:27were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.’”
- Deut 32:41if I sharpen my glittering sword, my hand grasps it in judgment; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay those who hate me.
- Deut 32:43Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.
- Deut 33:7This is for Judah. He said, “Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah. Bring him in to his people. With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help against his adversaries.”
- Josh 5:13When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our enemies?”
- 1 Sam 2:32You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I will give Israel; and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.
- 2 Sam 22:7In my distress, I called on Yahweh. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came into his ears.
- 2 Sam 24:13So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
- 2 Kgs 6:1The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See now, the place where we live and meet with you is too small for us.
- 1 Chr 12:17David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.”
- 1 Chr 21:12either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and Yahweh’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’”
- 2 Chr 15:4But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
- Ezra 4:1Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple to Yahweh, the God of Israel;
- Neh 4:11Our adversaries said, “They will not know or see, until we come in among them and kill them, and cause the work to cease.”
- Neh 9:27Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries.
- Esth 7:4For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”
- Job 6:23or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand?’ or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?’
- Job 7:11“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 15:24Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
- Job 16:9He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
- Job 19:11He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
- Job 38:23which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
- Job 41:15Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.
- Ps 3:1A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
- Ps 4:1For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm by David. Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
- Ps 13:4Lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him”; Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.
- Ps 18:6In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
- Ps 27:2When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
- Ps 27:12Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
- Ps 32:7You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
- Ps 44:5Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.
- Ps 44:7But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.
- Ps 44:10You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.
- Ps 59:16But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.
- Ps 60:11Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.
- Ps 60:12Through God we shall do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.
- Ps 66:14which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.
- Ps 74:10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
- Ps 78:42They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
- Ps 78:61and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.
- Ps 78:66He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.
- Ps 81:14I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
- Ps 89:23I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.
- Ps 89:42You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.
- Ps 97:3A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.
- Ps 102:2Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.
- Ps 105:24He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.
- Ps 106:11The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.
- Ps 106:44Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.
- Ps 107:2Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,
- Ps 107:6Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,
- Ps 107:13Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
- Ps 107:19Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.
- Ps 107:28Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.
- Ps 108:12Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.
- Ps 108:13Through God, we will do valiantly. For it is he who will tread down our enemies.
- Ps 112:8His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.
- Ps 119:139My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.
- Ps 119:143Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
- Ps 119:157Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.
- Ps 136:24And has delivered us from our adversaries; for his loving kindness endures forever:
- Prov 23:27For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
- Prov 24:10If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.
- Isa 1:24Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies;
- Isa 5:28whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.
- Isa 5:30They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.
- Isa 9:11Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,
- Isa 25:4For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.
- Isa 26:11Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
- Isa 26:16Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
- Isa 30:20Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;
- Isa 49:20The children of your bereavement will say in your ears, ‘This place is too small for me. Give me a place to live in.’
- Isa 59:18According to their deeds, he will repay as appropriate, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; he will repay the islands their due.
- Isa 59:19So shall they fear Yahweh’s name from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which Yahweh’s breath drives.
- Isa 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
- Isa 63:18Your holy people possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
- Isa 64:2As when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the water to boil; Make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
- Jer 30:16Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those who plunder you shall be plunder, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey.
- Jer 46:10For that day is of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge himself of his adversaries. The sword will devour and be satiated, and will drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
- Jer 48:5For they shall go up by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping. For at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
- Jer 50:7All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.’
- Lam 1:5Her adversaries have become the head, her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.
- Lam 1:7Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her, The adversaries saw her, they mocked at her desolations.
- Lam 1:10The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things: for she has seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.
- Lam 1:17Zion spreads out her hands. There is no one to comfort her; Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.
- Lam 2:4He has bent his bow like an enemy, he has stood with his right hand as an adversary, Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like fire.
- Lam 2:17Yahweh has done that which he purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He has thrown down, and has not pitied: He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
- Lam 4:12The kings of the earth didn’t believe, neither did all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
- Ezek 30:16I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall be broken up; and Memphis shall have adversaries in the daytime.
- Ezek 39:23The nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them: so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword.
- Hos 5:15I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
- Amos 3:11Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “An adversary will overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered.”
- Mic 5:9Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.
- Nah 1:2Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
- Zech 8:10For before those days there was no wages for man, nor any wages for an animal; neither was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone against his neighbor.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.