batsar · be impossible; fortify

What it means

batsar (בָּצַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be impossible; fortify”.

Be impossible, out of reach. Elsewhere, fortify; also gather grapes.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To surround a city with walls.
2. To cut grape clusters.
3. To be past someone's power.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• fortified ×24
• gather ×3
• fortify ×2
• grape gatherers ×2
• He cuts off ×1
• beyond reach for you ×1
• harvested ×1
• impenetrable ×1
• inaccessible things ×1
• like a grape gatherer ×1
• others ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×5
• Joshua×1
• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×6
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×2
• Hosea×1
• Obadiah×1
• Zephaniah×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 11:6

  And YHWH said, “Look, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they have begun to do; and now nothing that they plan to do will be out of reach for them.

• Leviticus 25:5

  What grows by itself from your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your unpruned vine you shall not gather; it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.

• Leviticus 25:11

  That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; you shall not sow, and you shall not reap what grows by itself and you shall not gather its unpruned vines.

• Numbers 13:28

  Only the people who live in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; and we also saw the descendants of Anak there.

• Deuteronomy 1:28

  Where are we going up? Our brothers have melted our heart, saying, ‘A people greater and taller than we; cities great and fortified up to the heavens; and also we saw the sons of the Anakim there.’”

• Deuteronomy 3:5

  All these were cities fortified with a high wall, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled towns.

• Deuteronomy 9:1

  Hear, Israel: you are crossing today the Jordan to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to the heavens,

• Deuteronomy 24:21

  When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean after you; it shall be for the resident alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.

• Deuteronomy 28:52

  And it will besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trust, in all your land; and it will besiege you in all your gates in all your land, which YHWH your Elohim has given you.

• Joshua 14:12

  And now, give me this hill country of which YHWH spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that Anakim are there, and cities, great and fortified. Perhaps YHWH will be with me, and I will dispossess them, just as YHWH spoke.”

• Judges 9:27

  They went out into the field and harvested their vineyards and trod the grapes, and they held a festival of praise; and they went into the house of their god and ate and drank and cursed Abimelech.

• 2 Samuel 20:6

  David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. You take the servants of your lord and pursue him, or he will find for himself fortified cities and escape our eye.”

• 2 Kings 18:13

  In year fourteen of King Hezekiah Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.

• 2 Kings 19:25

  Have you not heard? From afar I made it, from days of old I formed it; now I have brought it about, and it has been for reducing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

• 2 Chronicles 17:2

  He placed a force in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that Asa his father had captured.

• 2 Chronicles 19:5

  He appointed judges in the land, in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

• 2 Chronicles 32:1

  After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and entered Judah and encamped against the fortified cities and intended to break into them for himself.

• 2 Chronicles 33:14

  After this he built an outer wall for the city of David, west of Gihon, in the brook, and to the entrance at the Fish Gate, and he surrounded the Ophel and raised it very high. He put commanders of forces in all the fortified cities of Judah.

• Nehemiah 9:25

  And they captured fortified cities and fertile ground, and they possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug, vineyards and olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance; and they ate and were satisfied and grew fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

• Job 42:2

  “I know that you can do all things, and that no plan is beyond reach for you.

• Psalms 76:12

  He cuts off the spirit of leaders; he is fearsome to the kings of the earth.

• Isaiah 2:15

  and against every high tower, and against every fortified wall;

• Isaiah 22:10

  And the houses of Jerusalem you counted, and you tore down the houses to fortify the wall.

• Isaiah 25:2

  For you have made the city into a heap, the fortified town into a ruin, the palace of strangers no longer a city; it will never be rebuilt.

• Isaiah 27:10

  For the fortified city is solitary, an abode sent away and forsaken like the wilderness; there the calf will graze, and there it will lie down and consume its branches.

• Isaiah 36:1

  And it happened in year fourteen of King Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.

• Isaiah 37:26

  Have you not heard? From afar I made it, from days of old I formed it; now I have brought it about, and it has been for reducing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

• Jeremiah 6:9

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: “They will glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel; turn back your hand like a grape gatherer over the branches.”

• Jeremiah 15:20

  And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; and they will fight against you, but they will not prevail over you, for with you am I to save you and to rescue you, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 33:3

  Call to me, and I will answer you, and I will declare to you great things and inaccessible things that you have not known.

• Jeremiah 49:9

  If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, they would destroy only what was enough for them.

• Jeremiah 51:53

  Though Babylon should go up to the heavens, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, from me devastators will come to her, declares YHWH.

• Ezekiel 21:20

  A road you will set for the sword to come to Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem, the fortified.

• Ezekiel 36:35

  And they will say, “This land, the desolate one, has become like the garden of Eden; and the ruined cities, and the desolate and the torn down, are fortified and inhabited.”

• Hosea 8:14

  And Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send fire on his cities, and it will devour her citadels.

• Obadiah 1:5

  If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night (how you have been destroyed!), would they not steal only what was enough for them? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?

• Zephaniah 1:16

  a day of the horn and of the alarm cry against the fortified cities and against the high corners.

• Zechariah 11:2

  Wail, cypress, for the cedar has fallen, because the nobles have been devastated. Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the impenetrable forest has come down.