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Strong's H6862 צַר (tsar)

Tsar means “narrow” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H6862
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 106
Books 25

Strong's H6862 Quick Answer

Strong's H6862 צַּר צָּר (tsar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tsar (tsar) (or tsar {tsawr}) adj. 1. narrow 2. (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble) It has 106 linked Bible usages across 25 books. Visible English usage signals include trouble, place, narrow, and also. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
tsar (tsar) (or tsar {tsawr}) adj. 1. narrow 2. (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble)
Usage
106 linked usages
Books
25 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
trouble, place, narrow, and also

Meaning and Definition

tsar (tsar) (or tsar {tsawr}) adj. 1. narrow 2. (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble) 3. also a pebble (as in H6864) 4. (transitive) an opponent (as crowding) [from H6887] KJV: adversary, afflicted(-tion), anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, narrow, small, sorrow, strait, tribulation, trouble. Root(s): H6887 See also: H6864

Original Word
צַּר צָּר
Transliteration
tsar
Derivation
Root: צרר First root strongs: 6887
Morphology
adjective

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6862. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H6862 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tsar, 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.

trouble 2 Chronicles 15:4 17× place 2 Kings 6:1 also Job 19:11 narrow Numbers 22:26

How Strong's H6862 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 106 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H6862 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 H6862 in the Old Testament

106 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 14:20 KJV

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 KJV

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 remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.

Numbers 22:26 KJV

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.

Usage Excerpts

First 106 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6862.

Genesis 14:20 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
Numbers 22:26 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
Deuteronomy 4:30 Old Testament, KJV
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 be obedient unto his voice;
Deuteronomy 32:27 Old Testament, KJV
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
Deuteronomy 32:41 Old Testament, KJV
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 me.
Deuteronomy 32:43 Old Testament, KJV
Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
Deuteronomy 33:7 Old Testament, KJV
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 for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.
Joshua 5:13 Old Testament, KJV
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 with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?
Judges 11:7 Old Testament, KJV
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 when ye are in distress?
1 Samuel 2:32 Old Testament, KJV
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 house for ever.
2 Samuel 22:7 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
2 Samuel 24:14 Old Testament, KJV
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 into the hand of man.
2 Kings 6:1 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
1 Chronicles 21:12 Old Testament, KJV
Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
2 Chronicles 15:4 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 cease.
Nehemiah 9:27 Old Testament, KJV
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, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.
Esther 7:4 Old Testament, KJV
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 held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Esther 7:6 Old Testament, KJV
And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
Job 6:23 Old Testament, KJV
Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
Job 7:11 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Job 16:9 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
Job 36:16 Old Testament, KJV
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 table should be full of fatness.
Job 38:23 Old Testament, KJV
Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
Job 41:15 Old Testament, KJV
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
Psalms 3:1 Old Testament, KJV
Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
Psalms 4:1 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
Psalms 18:6 Old Testament, KJV
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 his ears.
Psalms 27:2 Old Testament, KJV
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
Psalms 27:12 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
Psalms 44:5 Old Testament, KJV
Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
Psalms 44:7 Old Testament, KJV
But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
Psalms 44:10 Old Testament, KJV
Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
Psalms 59:16 Old Testament, KJV
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 trouble.
Psalms 60:11 Old Testament, KJV
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Psalms 60:12 Old Testament, KJV
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
Psalms 66:14 Old Testament, KJV
Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.
Psalms 74:10 Old Testament, KJV
O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Psalms 78:42 Old Testament, KJV
They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
Psalms 78:61 Old Testament, KJV
And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
Psalms 78:66 Old Testament, KJV
And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
Psalms 81:14 Old Testament, KJV
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Psalms 89:23 Old Testament, KJV
And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
Psalms 89:42 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
Psalms 97:3 Old Testament, KJV
A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
Psalms 102:2 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.
Psalms 106:11 Old Testament, KJV
And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.
Psalms 106:44 Old Testament, KJV
Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:
Psalms 107:2 Old Testament, KJV
Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
Psalms 107:6 Old Testament, KJV
Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
Psalms 107:13 Old Testament, KJV
Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
Psalms 107:19 Old Testament, KJV
Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
Psalms 107:28 Old Testament, KJV
Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
Psalms 108:12 Old Testament, KJV
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Psalms 108:13 Old Testament, KJV
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
Psalms 112:8 Old Testament, KJV
His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his desire upon his enemies.
Psalms 119:139 Old Testament, KJV
My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
Psalms 119:143 Old Testament, KJV
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
Psalms 119:157 Old Testament, KJV
Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
Psalms 136:24 Old Testament, KJV
And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Proverbs 23:27 Old Testament, KJV
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Proverbs 24:10 Old Testament, KJV
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
Isaiah 1:24 Old Testament, KJV
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 enemies:
Isaiah 5:28 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
Isaiah 9:11 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
Isaiah 11:13 Old Testament, KJV
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 Ephraim.
Isaiah 25:4 Old Testament, KJV
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 the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Isaiah 26:11 Old Testament, KJV
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 thine enemies shall devour them.
Isaiah 26:16 Old Testament, KJV
LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
Isaiah 30:20 Old Testament, KJV
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 more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
Isaiah 49:20 Old Testament, KJV
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 place to me that I may dwell.
Isaiah 59:18 Old Testament, KJV
According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
Isaiah 59:19 Old Testament, KJV
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, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Isaiah 63:9 Old Testament, KJV
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 bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Isaiah 63:18 Old Testament, KJV
The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Isaiah 64:2 Old Testament, KJV
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 tremble at thy presence!
Jeremiah 30:16 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.
Jeremiah 46:10 Old Testament, KJV
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, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Jeremiah 48:5 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
Lamentations 1:5 Old Testament, KJV
Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
Lamentations 1:7 Old Testament, KJV
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 people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
Lamentations 1:10 Old Testament, KJV
The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
Lamentations 1:17 Old Testament, KJV
Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.
Lamentations 1:20 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
Lamentations 2:4 Old Testament, KJV
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 tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
Lamentations 2:17 Old Testament, KJV
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 hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
Lamentations 4:12 Old Testament, KJV
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 into the gates of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 30:16 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
Hosea 5:15 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
Micah 5:9 Old Testament, KJV
Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.
Nahum 1:2 Old Testament, KJV
God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
Zechariah 8:10 Old Testament, KJV
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 because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6862, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 3 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 5 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Samuel 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Old Testament
Nehemiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Esther 2 usages, Old Testament
Job 8 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 38 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 15 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 4 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 8 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 2 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H6862 FAQ

What does tsar (צַר) mean?

Tsar (Strong's H6862) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "narrow". tsar (tsar) (or tsar {tsawr}) adj. 1. narrow 2. (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble)

How many times is tsar (צַר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 106 linked usages for Strong's H6862 across 25 books.

Where can I study tsar (צַר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6862 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate tsar (צַר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as trouble, place, narrow, and also. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.