# H6887 צָרַר

צָרַר (tsârar), Strong’s H6887: to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive KJV: adversary, (be in) afflict(-ion), beseige, bind (up), (be in, bring) distress, enemy…. Occurs 52…

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*tsârar* — to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive

KJV: adversary, (be in) afflict(-ion), beseige, bind (up), (be in, bring) distress, enemy…

Occurs 52 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- צוּר vb. confine, bind, besiege
- צָרַר vb. denom
- [צָרַר] vb. denom. Hiph. suffer distress
- צָרַר vb. denom
- [צָרַר] vb. denom. make a rival-wife;—Qal Lv 18:18
- צָרַר vb
- צָרַר vb. bind, tie up, be restricted, narrow, scant, cramped
- A trans.
- Qal bind or tie up
- Pu. tied up (mended by tying)
- B intrans.
- Qal be scant, cramped, in straits
- Hiph. make narrow for, press hard upon, cause distress to
- צָרַר vb
- צָרַר vb. shew hostility toward, vex

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 12:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=34) — The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their…
- [Exodus 23:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=22) — 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…
- [Leviticus 18:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/18?v=18) — “‘You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is…
- [Numbers 10:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/10?v=9) — When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the…
- [Numbers 25:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/25?v=17) — “Harass the Midianites, and strike them;
- [Numbers 25:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/25?v=18) — for they harassed you with their wiles, wherein they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the incident…
- [Numbers 33:55](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/33?v=55) — “But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be…
- [Deuteronomy 14:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/14?v=25) — then you shall turn it into money, bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God…
- [Deuteronomy 28:52](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=52) — They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout…
- [Joshua 9:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/9?v=4) — they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys…