Skip to content
The Historic Faith
Strong's Concordance
Hebrew Word Study

Strong's H6887 צָרַר (tsarar)

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

Strong's Number H6887
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 54
Books 21

Strong's H6887 Quick Answer

Strong's H6887 צָּרַר (tsarar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tsarar (tsaw-rar') v. 1. to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (as follows) [a primitive root] It has 54 linked Bible usages across 21 books. Visible English usage signals include bring, distress, bindeth, afflicted, and afflict. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
tsarar (tsaw-rar') v. 1. to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (as follows) [a primitive root]
Usage
54 linked usages
Books
21 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
bring, distress, bindeth, afflicted, and afflict

Meaning and Definition

tsarar (tsaw-rar') v. 1. to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (as follows) [a primitive root] KJV: adversary, (be in) afflict(-ion), beseige, bind (up), (be in, bring) distress, enemy, narrower, oppress, pangs, shut up, be in a strait (trouble), vex.

Original Word
צָּרַר
Transliteration
tsarar
Derivation
Root: צרר
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6887. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H6887 Is Translated

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

afflict Psalms 143:12 afflicted Psalms 129:1 bindeth Job 26:8 bring 1 Samuel 28:15 distress 2 Chronicles 28:22 Bind Isaiah 8:16 adversary Exodus 23:22

How Strong's H6887 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 54 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H6887 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 H6887 in the Old Testament

54 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Exodus 12:34 KJV

And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.

Exodus 23:22 KJV

But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

Leviticus 18:18 KJV

Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.

Usage Excerpts

First 54 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6887.

Exodus 12:34 Old Testament, KJV
And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
Exodus 23:22 Old Testament, KJV
But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
Leviticus 18:18 Old Testament, KJV
Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
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 25:17 Old Testament, KJV
Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
Numbers 25:18 Old Testament, KJV
For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.
Numbers 33:55 Old Testament, KJV
But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
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 9:4 Old Testament, KJV
They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
1 Samuel 13:6 Old Testament, KJV
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 in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
1 Samuel 25:29 Old Testament, KJV
Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
1 Samuel 28:15 Old Testament, KJV
And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
2 Samuel 1:26 Old Testament, KJV
I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
2 Samuel 20:3 Old Testament, KJV
And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
1 Kings 8:37 Old Testament, KJV
If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
2 Kings 5:23 Old Testament, KJV
And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.
1 Chronicles 21:13 Old Testament, KJV
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 fall into the hand of man.
2 Chronicles 6:28 Old Testament, KJV
If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
2 Chronicles 28:22 Old Testament, KJV
And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.
2 Chronicles 33:12 Old Testament, KJV
And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
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 3:10 Old Testament, KJV
And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.
Esther 8:1 Old Testament, KJV
On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.
Esther 9:10 Old Testament, KJV
The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.
Esther 9:24 Old Testament, KJV
Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
Job 26:8 Old Testament, KJV
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Psalms 6:7 Old Testament, KJV
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
Psalms 7:4 Old Testament, KJV
If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
Psalms 7:6 Old Testament, KJV
Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
Psalms 8:2 Old Testament, KJV
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
Psalms 10:5 Old Testament, KJV
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
Psalms 23:5 Old Testament, KJV
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Psalms 31:9 Old Testament, KJV
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
Psalms 31:11 Old Testament, KJV
I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
Psalms 42:10 Old Testament, KJV
As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
Psalms 69:17 Old Testament, KJV
And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
Psalms 69:19 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
Psalms 74:4 Old Testament, KJV
Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
Psalms 74:23 Old Testament, KJV
Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
Psalms 129:1 Old Testament, KJV
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
Psalms 129:2 Old Testament, KJV
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
Psalms 143:12 Old Testament, KJV
And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.
Proverbs 26:8 Old Testament, KJV
As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.
Proverbs 30:4 Old Testament, KJV
Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?
Isaiah 8:16 Old Testament, KJV
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
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 28:20 Old Testament, KJV
For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
Jeremiah 10:18 Old Testament, KJV
For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
Jeremiah 48:41 Old Testament, KJV
Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
Jeremiah 49:22 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
Hosea 4:19 Old Testament, KJV
The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
Hosea 13:12 Old Testament, KJV
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
Amos 5:12 Old Testament, KJV
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Zephaniah 1:17 Old Testament, KJV
And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6887, grouped by book.

Exodus 2 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 4 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 3 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Esther 4 usages, Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 16 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 2 usages, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H6887 FAQ

What does tsarar (צָרַר) mean?

Tsarar (Strong's H6887) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "cramp". tsarar (tsaw-rar') v. 1. to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (as follows) [a primitive root]

How many times is tsarar (צָרַר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 54 linked usages for Strong's H6887 across 21 books.

Where can I study tsarar (צָרַר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6887 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate tsarar (צָרַר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as bring, distress, bindeth, afflicted, afflict, and adversary. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.