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Strong's H1219 בָּצַר (batsar)

Batsar means “gather grapes” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G1219 — demosios (“public”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H1219
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 37
Books 18

Strong's H1219 Quick Answer

Strong's H1219 בָּצַר (batsar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. batsar (baw-tsar') v. 1. to clip off 2. specifically (as denominative from H1210) to gather grapes It has 37 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include gather, height, off, will, and gatherest. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
batsar (baw-tsar') v. 1. to clip off 2. specifically (as denominative from H1210) to gather grapes
Usage
37 linked usages
Books
18 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
gather, height, off, will, and gatherest

Meaning and Definition

batsar (baw-tsar') v. 1. to clip off 2. specifically (as denominative from H1210) to gather grapes 3. also to be isolated (i.e. inaccessible by height or fortification) [a primitive root] KJV: cut off, (de-)fenced, fortify, (grape) gather(-er), mighty things, restrain, strong, wall (up), withhold. See also: H1210

Original Word
בָּצַר
Transliteration
batsar
Derivation
Root: בצר
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1219. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to gather/restrain/fortify

Usage: 1) to gather, restrain, fence, fortify, make inaccessible, enclose 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cut off 1a2) fortified, cut off, made inaccessible (pass participle) 1a3) secrets, mysteries, inaccessible things (subst) 1b) (Niphal) to be withheld 1c) (Piel) to fortify

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How Strong's H1219 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render batsar, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

gather Leviticus 25:5 height 2 Chronicles 33:14 off Psalms 76:12 gathered Judges 9:27 gatherest Deuteronomy 24:21 grapes Jeremiah 49:9 will Genesis 11:6

How Strong's H1219 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 37 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H1219 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H1219 in the Old Testament

37 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 11:6 KJV

And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

Leviticus 25:5 KJV

That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.

Leviticus 25:11 KJV

A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.

Usage Excerpts

First 37 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1219.

Genesis 11:6 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Leviticus 25:5 Old Testament, KJV
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
Leviticus 25:11 Old Testament, KJV
A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
Numbers 13:28 Old Testament, KJV
Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
Deuteronomy 1:28 Old Testament, KJV
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
Deuteronomy 3:5 Old Testament, KJV
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
Deuteronomy 9:1 Old Testament, KJV
Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
Deuteronomy 24:21 Old Testament, KJV
When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy 28:52 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
Joshua 14:12 Old Testament, KJV
Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.
Judges 9:27 Old Testament, KJV
And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.
2 Samuel 20:6 Old Testament, KJV
And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.
2 Kings 18:13 Old Testament, KJV
Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
2 Kings 19:25 Old Testament, KJV
Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
2 Chronicles 17:2 Old Testament, KJV
And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
2 Chronicles 19:5 Old Testament, KJV
And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,
2 Chronicles 32:1 Old Testament, KJV
After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.
2 Chronicles 33:14 Old Testament, KJV
Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
Nehemiah 9:25 Old Testament, KJV
And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
Job 42:2 Old Testament, KJV
I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
Psalms 76:12 Old Testament, KJV
He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
Isaiah 2:15 Old Testament, KJV
And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
Isaiah 22:10 Old Testament, KJV
And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
Isaiah 25:2 Old Testament, KJV
For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Isaiah 27:10 Old Testament, KJV
Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
Isaiah 36:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
Isaiah 37:26 Old Testament, KJV
Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
Jeremiah 6:9 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
Jeremiah 15:20 Old Testament, KJV
And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 33:3 Old Testament, KJV
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
Jeremiah 49:9 Old Testament, KJV
If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.
Jeremiah 51:53 Old Testament, KJV
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
Ezekiel 21:20 Old Testament, KJV
Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
Ezekiel 36:35 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
Hosea 8:14 Old Testament, KJV
For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
Obadiah 1:5 Old Testament, KJV
If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?
Zephaniah 1:16 Old Testament, KJV
A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1219, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Old Testament
Leviticus 2 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 5 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 4 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 6 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 5 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 2 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament
Obadiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H1219 FAQ

What does batsar (בָּצַר) mean?

Batsar (Strong's H1219) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "gather grapes". batsar (baw-tsar') v. 1. to clip off 2. specifically (as denominative from H1210) to gather grapes

How many times is batsar (בָּצַר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 37 linked usages for Strong's H1219 across 18 books.

Where can I study batsar (בָּצַר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1219 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate batsar (בָּצַר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as gather, height, off, will, gatherest, and gathered. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.