עֹצֶר
otser · restraint; barrenness
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6115 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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otser (עֹצֶר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “restraint; barrenness”.
Oppression, closing in; what presses or shuts. It is also said of the womb that has no children.
How to say it
o·tser
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
- What presses and makes suffer.
- The closed womb, which bears no children.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- oppression ×2
- closed ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Psalms 107:39
And they decrease and are bowed down by oppression, evil, and sorrow.
- Proverbs 30:16
Sheol, and the closed womb, the earth not satisfied with water, and the fire that does not say, “Enough.”
- Isaiah 53:8
By oppression and by judgment he was taken away; and his generation, who will consider it? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people the blow was for him.