# צַר (tsar)

Israeli respelling: tsar. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6862. 107 Old Testament occurrences.

narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble ; (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)

King James renderings: adversary, afflicted(-tion), anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, narrow, small, sorrow, strait, tribulation, trouble.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/tsar-h6862

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 14:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/14/20) — And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
- [Numbers 10:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/10/9) — And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be reme…
- [Numbers 22:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/22/26) — And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
- [Numbers 24:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/24/8) — God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break…
- [Deuteronomy 4:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/30) — When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt…
- [Deuteronomy 32:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/27) — Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our…
- [Deuteronomy 32:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/41) — If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate…
- [Deuteronomy 32:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/43) — Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and wil…
- [Deuteronomy 33:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/33/7) — And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient…
- [Joshua 5:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/5/13) — And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him wit…
- [Judges 11:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/11/7) — And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father’s house? and why are ye come unto me now whe…
- [1 Samuel 2:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/2/32) — And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine hou…
- [1 Samuel 13:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/13/6) — When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and…
- [2 Samuel 22:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/22/7) — In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
- [2 Samuel 24:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/24/13) — So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three mont…
- [2 Samuel 24:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/24/14) — And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall…
- [2 Kings 6:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/6/1) — And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
- [1 Chronicles 12:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/12/17) — And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto…
- [1 Chronicles 21:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/21/12) — Either three years’ famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else…
- [1 Chronicles 21:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/21/13) — And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not…
- [2 Chronicles 15:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/15/4) — But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
- [Ezra 4:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/4/1) — Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;
- [Nehemiah 4:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/4/11) — And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to ceas…
- [Nehemiah 9:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/27) — Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee…
- [Esther 7:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/7/4) — For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had hel…
- [Esther 7:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/7/6) — And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
- [Job 6:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/23) — Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
- [Job 7:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/7/11) — Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
- [Job 15:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/15/24) — Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
- [Job 16:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/16/9) — He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
- [Job 19:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/11) — He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
- [Job 36:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/16) — Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy…
- [Job 38:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/23) — Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
- [Job 41:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/41/15) — His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
- [Psalms 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/3/1) — Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
- [Psalms 4:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/4/1) — Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
- [Psalms 13:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/13/4) — Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
- [Psalms 18:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/18/6) — In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into hi…
- [Psalms 27:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/27/2) — When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
- [Psalms 27:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/27/12) — Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
- [Psalms 32:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/32/7) — Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
- [Psalms 44:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/44/5) — Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
- [Psalms 44:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/44/7) — But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
- [Psalms 44:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/44/10) — Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
- [Psalms 59:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/59/16) — But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my…
- [Psalms 60:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/60/11) — Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
- [Psalms 60:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/60/12) — Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
- [Psalms 66:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/66/14) — Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.
- [Psalms 74:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/74/10) — O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
- [Psalms 78:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/42) — They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
- [Psalms 78:61](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/61) — And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.
- [Psalms 78:66](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/66) — And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
- [Psalms 81:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/81/14) — I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
- [Psalms 89:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/23) — And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
- [Psalms 89:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/42) — Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
- [Psalms 97:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/97/3) — A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
- [Psalms 102:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/102/2) — Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
- [Psalms 105:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/105/24) — And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.
- [Psalms 106:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/106/11) — And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.
- [Psalms 106:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/106/44) — Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:
- [Psalms 107:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/2) — Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
- [Psalms 107:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/6) — Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
- [Psalms 107:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/13) — Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
- [Psalms 107:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/19) — Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
- [Psalms 107:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/28) — Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
- [Psalms 108:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/108/12) — Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
- [Psalms 108:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/108/13) — Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
- [Psalms 112:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/112/8) — His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his desire upon his enemies.
- [Psalms 119:139](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/139) — My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
- [Psalms 119:143](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/143) — Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
- [Psalms 119:157](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/157) — Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
- [Psalms 136:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/136/24) — And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever.
- [Proverbs 23:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/23/27) — For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
- [Proverbs 24:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/24/10) — If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
- [Isaiah 1:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/24) — Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemie…
- [Isaiah 5:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/28) — Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
- [Isaiah 5:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/30) — And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and th…
- [Isaiah 9:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/9/11) — Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
- [Isaiah 11:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/11/13) — The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex…
- [Isaiah 25:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/25/4) — For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when t…
- [Isaiah 26:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/26/11) — LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thin…
- [Isaiah 26:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/26/16) — LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
- [Isaiah 30:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/20) — And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any m…
- [Isaiah 49:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/20) — The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give pla…
- [Isaiah 59:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/18) — According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recom…
- [Isaiah 59:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/19) — So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood,…
- [Isaiah 63:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/63/9) — In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he ba…
- [Isaiah 63:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/63/18) — The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
- [Isaiah 64:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/64/2) — As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tr…
- [Jeremiah 30:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/30/16) — Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that…
- [Jeremiah 46:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/46/10) — For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, an…
- [Jeremiah 48:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/5) — For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.
- [Jeremiah 50:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/7) — All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitatio…
- [Lamentations 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/1/5) — Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children a…
- [Lamentations 1:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/1/7) — Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her pe…
- [Lamentations 1:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/1/10) — The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom th…
- [Lamentations 1:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/1/17) — Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be…
- [Lamentations 2:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/4) — He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the taberna…
- [Lamentations 2:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/17) — The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and…
- [Lamentations 4:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/4/12) — The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered…
- [Ezekiel 30:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/30/16) — And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.
- [Ezekiel 39:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/39/23) — And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore h…
- [Hosea 5:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/5/15) — I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
- [Amos 3:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/3/11) — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, a…
- [Micah 5:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/5/9) — Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.
- [Nahum 1:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/1/2) — God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserve…
- [Zechariah 8:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/8/10) — For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in becaus…