Strong’s H6887 · Hebrew
צָרַר
tsârar · tsaw-rar'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive
In the King James Version adversary, (be in) afflict(-ion), beseige, bind (up), (be in, bring) distress, enemy, narrower, oppress, pangs, shut up, be in a strait (trouble), vex.
In 55 verses of the King James Version
51–55 of 55
- Lamentations 1:20Behold, 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.
- Hosea 4:19The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
- Hosea 13:12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
- Amos 5:12For 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 1:17And 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.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.