1) to gather, restrain, fence, fortify, make inaccessible, enclose 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cut off 1a2) fortified, cut off, made inaccessible (pass participle) 1a3) secrets, mysteries, inaccessible things (subst) 1b) (Niphal) to be withheld 1c) (Piel) to fortify
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H1219 — בָּצַר
ba.tsar · to gather/restrain/fortify · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 11:6 · יִבָּצֵ֣רAnd the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.Leviticus 25:5 · תִבְצֹ֑רYou are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.Leviticus 25:11 · תִבְצְר֖וּThe fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.Numbers 13:28 · בְּצֻר֤וֹתNevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.Deuteronomy 1:28 · וּבְצוּרֹ֖תWhere can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”Deuteronomy 3:5 · בְּצֻר֛וֹתAll these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages.Deuteronomy 9:1 · וּבְצֻרֹ֖תHear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.Deuteronomy 24:21 · תִבְצֹר֙When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.Deuteronomy 28:52 · וְהַבְּצֻר֔וֹתThey will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.Joshua 14:12 · בְּצֻר֔וֹתNow therefore give me this hill country that the LORD promised me on that day, for you yourself heard then that the Anakim were there, with great and fortified cities. Perhaps with the LORD’s help I will drive them out, as the LORD has spoken.”Judges 9:27 · וַֽיִּבְצְר֤וּAnd after they had gone out into the fields, gathered grapes from their vineyards, and trodden them, they held a festival and went into the house of their god; and as they ate and drank, they cursed Abimelech.2 Samuel 20:6 · בְּצֻר֖וֹתAnd David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your lord’s servants and pursue him, or he will find fortified cities and elude us.”2 Kings 18:13 · הַבְּצֻר֖וֹתIn the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.2 Kings 19:25 · בְּצֻרֽוֹת׃Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.2 Chronicles 17:2 · הַבְּצֻר֑וֹתHe stationed troops in every fortified city of Judah and put garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.2 Chronicles 19:5 · הַבְּצֻר֖וֹתHe appointed judges in the land, in each of the fortified cities of Judah.2 Chronicles 32:1 · הַבְּצֻר֔וֹתAfter all these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, intending to conquer them for himself.2 Chronicles 33:14 · הַבְּצֻר֖וֹתAfter this, Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David from west of Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate, and he brought it around the hill of Ophel and heightened it considerably. He also stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.Nehemiah 9:25 · בְּצֻרוֹת֮They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat and delighted in Your great goodness.Job 42:2 · יִבָּצֵ֖ר“I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.Psalm 76:12 · יִ֭בְצֹרHe breaks the spirits of princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth.Isaiah 2:15 · בְצוּרָֽה׃against every high tower, against every fortified wall,Isaiah 22:10 · לְבַצֵּ֖רYou counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall.Isaiah 25:2 · בְצוּרָ֖הIndeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.Isaiah 27:10 · בְּצוּרָה֙For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.Isaiah 36:1 · הַבְּצֻר֖וֹתIn the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.Isaiah 37:26 · בְּצֻרֽוֹת׃Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.Jeremiah 6:9 · כְּבוֹצֵ֖רThis is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine. Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer over the branches.”Jeremiah 15:20 · בְּצוּרָ֔הThen I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the LORD.Jeremiah 33:3 · וּבְצֻר֖וֹתCall to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.Jeremiah 49:9 · בֹּֽצְרִים֙If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?Jeremiah 51:53 · תְבַצֵּ֖רEven if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her,” declares the LORD.Hosea 8:14 · בְּצֻר֑וֹתIsrael has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.Obadiah 1:5 · בֹּֽצְרִים֙“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?Zephaniah 1:16 · הַבְּצֻר֔וֹתa day of horn blast and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers.