{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H6696",
  "lemma": "צוּר",
  "transliteration": "tsûwr",
  "definition": "to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile)",
  "kjv": "adversary, assault, beset, besiege, bind (up), cast, distress, fashion, fortify…",
  "occurrences": 36,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[צוּר] vb. fashion, delineate",
    "צוּר vb",
    "צוּר vb. confine, bind, besiege",
    "צוּר vb",
    "[צוּר] vb. shew hostility to, treat as foe"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 23:22",
      "text": "But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 2:9",
      "text": "The LORD said to me, “Don’t bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/2?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 2:19",
      "text": "When you come near the border of the children of Ammon, don’t bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/2?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 20:12",
      "text": "If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/20?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 20:19",
      "text": "When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/20?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 9:31",
      "text": "He sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=31"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 23:8",
      "text": "Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/23?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 11:1",
      "text": "At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/11?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 20:15",
      "text": "They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/20?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 7:15",
      "text": "For he fashioned the two pillars of bronze, eighteen cubits high apiece; and a line of twelve cubits encircled either…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/7?v=15"
    }
  ],
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