Be distressed
יָצַרStrong’s H6696yatsar (ya-tsar)
Appears in 38 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yatsar is the Hebrew word usually translated “laid siege”, “laying siege” and “fashioned”. It appears in 38 verses of the Old Testament.
“In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.”
Meaning
- To bind, be distressed, be in distress, be cramped, be narrow, be scant, be in straits, make narrow, cause distress, beseige(Qal) to suffer distress
- (Qal) to show hostility to, be an adversary, treat as foe
- (Qal) to form, fashion, delineate
How it's translated
- and they laid siege 5
- and he laid siege 5
- laying siege 4
- and he fashioned 2
- and you will lay siege 2
- who are laying siege 2
- and i will be a foe to 1
- you may provoke 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 8
- Deuteronomy 5
- Jeremiah 5
- 1 Kings 4
- Exodus 2
- 2 Samuel 2
16 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 23:22But 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.
- Exodus 32:4And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 2:9And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
- Deuteronomy 2:19And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.
- Deuteronomy 14:25Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:
- Deuteronomy 20:12And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
All 38 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
יָצַר yatsar · be distressed
1) to bind, be distressed, be in distress, be cramped, be narrow, be scant, be in straits, make narrow, cause distress, beseige 1a) (Qal) to suffer distress
צוּר tsur · to provoke
(Qal) to show hostility to, be an adversary, treat as foe
צוּר tsur · to form
(Qal) to form, fashion, delineate
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fashioned” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FASH'IONED, participle passive
Made; formed; shaped; fitted; adapted.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.