Narrow
צַרStrong’s H6862tsar
Appears in 106 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsar is the Hebrew word usually translated “when it was distress”, “opponents your” and “distress”. It appears in 106 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Narrow, tight
- Straits, distress
- Adversary, foe, enemy, oppressor
- Hard pebble, flint
How it's translated
- when it was distress 10
- opponents your 7
- distress 7
- opponent 7
- opponents their 6
- opponents our 5
- an opponent 5
- opponents my 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 36
- Isaiah 14
- Job 9
- Lamentations 8
- Deuteronomy 5
- Jeremiah 4
25 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 14:20And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
- Numbers 10:9And 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 22:26And 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 24:8God 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 4:30When 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 32:27Were 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.
All 106 verses, by book
- Genesis 1
- 14:20
- Joshua 1
- 5:13
- Judges 1
- 11:7
- 2 Kings 1
- 6:1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- 15:4
- Ezra 1
- 4:1
- Psalms 36
- 3:14:113:418:627:227:1232:744:544:744:1060:1160:1266:1474:1078:4278:6178:6681:1489:2389:4297:3105:24106:11106:44107:2107:6107:13107:19107:28108:12108:13112:8119:139119:143119:157136:24
- Hosea 1
- 5:15
- Amos 1
- 3:11
- Micah 1
- 5:9
- Nahum 1
- 1:2
- Zechariah 1
- 8:10
Hebrew dictionary
צַר tsar · narrow
narrow, tight
צַר tsar · distress
straits, distress
צַר tsar · enemy
adversary, foe, enemy, oppressor
צַר tsar · hard
hard pebble, flint
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “narrow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NARROW, adjective
I suspect this word and near to be contracted by the loss of g, nig, narrow strait; nigiaw, to narrow; for the D. has naauw, narrow close, G. with a prefix. In this case, the word belongs to the root of nigh; to approach.
- Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow sea; a narrow hem or border.
- Of little extent; very limited; as a narrow space or compass.
- Covetous; not liberal or bountiful; as a narrow heart.
- Contracted; of confined views or sentiments; very limited.
All definitions and other forms of “narrow”
- Near; within a small distance.
- Close; near; accurate; scrutinizing; as a narrow search; narrow inspection.
- Near; barely sufficient to avoid evil; as a narrow escape.
NARROW, noun
A strait; a narrow passage through a mountain, or a narrow channel of water between one sea or lake and another; a sound. It is usually in the plural, but sometimes in the singular.
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.