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 · יִבָּצֵ֣רYahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.Leviticus 25:5 · תִבְצֹ֑רWhat grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.Leviticus 25:11 · תִבְצְר֖וּThat fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.Numbers 13:28 · בְּצֻר֤וֹתHowever the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.Deuteronomy 1:28 · וּבְצוּרֹ֖תWhere are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.’”Deuteronomy 3:5 · בְּצֻר֛וֹתAll these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.Deuteronomy 9:1 · וּבְצֻרֹ֖תHear, Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,Deuteronomy 24:21 · תִבְצֹר֙When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.Deuteronomy 28:52 · וְהַבְּצֻר֔וֹתThey shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.Joshua 14:12 · בְּצֻר֔וֹתNow therefore give me this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh spoke.”Judges 9:27 · וַֽיִּבְצְר֤וּThey went out into the field, and harvested their vineyards, and trod the grapes, and held festival, and went into the house of their god, and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.2 Samuel 20:6 · בְּצֻר֖וֹתDavid said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.”2 Kings 18:13 · הַבְּצֻר֖וֹתNow in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.2 Kings 19:25 · בְּצֻרֽוֹת׃Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now have I brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.2 Chronicles 17:2 · הַבְּצֻר֑וֹתHe placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.2 Chronicles 19:5 · הַבְּצֻר֖וֹתHe set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,2 Chronicles 32:1 · הַבְּצֻר֔וֹתAfter these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself.2 Chronicles 33:14 · הַבְּצֻר֖וֹתNow after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.Nehemiah 9:25 · בְּצֻרוֹת֮They took fortified cities, and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.Job 42:2 · יִבָּצֵ֖ר“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.Psalm 76:12 · יִ֭בְצֹרHe will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth.Isaiah 2:15 · בְצוּרָֽה׃For every lofty tower, for every fortified wall,Isaiah 22:10 · לְבַצֵּ֖רYou numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.Isaiah 25:2 · בְצוּרָ֖הFor you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.Isaiah 27:10 · בְּצוּרָה֙For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.Isaiah 36:1 · הַבְּצֻר֖וֹתNow it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah, and captured them.Isaiah 37:26 · בְּצֻרֽוֹת׃Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.Jeremiah 6:9 · כְּבוֹצֵ֖רThus says Yahweh of Armies, “They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine. Turn again your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.”Jeremiah 15:20 · בְּצוּרָ֔הI will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 33:3 · וּבְצֻר֖וֹתCall to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.Jeremiah 49:9 · בֹּֽצְרִים֙If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, wouldn’t they destroy until they had enough?Jeremiah 51:53 · תְבַצֵּ֖רThough Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come to her, says Yahweh.Hosea 8:14 · בְּצֻר֑וֹתFor Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”Obadiah 1:5 · בֹּֽצְרִים֙“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, what disaster awaits you—wouldn’t they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn’t they leave some gleaning grapes?Zephaniah 1:16 · הַבְּצֻר֔וֹתa day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.