tsur · besiege; be an adversary

What it means

tsur (צוּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “besiege; be an adversary”.

Hem in, besiege; be an adversary to someone.

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 encircle a city, or shut something in.
2. To be someone's enemy.
3. To work a metal or a material until it takes its shape.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• besieged ×11
• besiege ×6
• besieging ×5
• harass ×3
• who are besieging ×2
• Lay siege ×1
• adversary ×1
• bind them ×1
• distressed ×1
• he formed ×1
• others ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×4
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×4
• 2 Kings×7
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Esther×1
• Psalms×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×2
• Daniel×1

• Exodus 23:22

  But if you indeed listen to his voice and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

• Deuteronomy 2:9

  YHWH said to me, “Do not harass Moab or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of its land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the sons of Lot as a possession.”

• Deuteronomy 2:19

  and you will come near opposite the sons of Ammon. Do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot as a possession.”

• Deuteronomy 20:12

  But if it does not make peace with you but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it.

• Deuteronomy 20:19

  When you besiege a city many days, fighting against it to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them, for from them you may eat, and you shall not cut them down. Is the tree of the field a human being, to come before you in the siege?

• Judges 9:31

  He sent messengers to Abimelech deceitfully, saying, “Look, Gaal son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem, and look, they are stirring up the city against you.

• 1 Samuel 23:8

  Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

• 2 Samuel 11:1

  And it happened, at the turn of the year, at the time when the kings go out, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed in Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 20:15

  They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah, and they cast up a siege ramp against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab were destroying, to bring down the wall.

• 1 Kings 7:15

  And he formed the two pillars of bronze: eighteen cubits was the height of the one pillar, and a thread of twelve cubits went around the second pillar.

• 1 Kings 15:27

  Baasha son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, while Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.

• 1 Kings 16:17

  Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.

• 1 Kings 20:1

  Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his troops; thirty and two kings were with him, and horses and chariots. He went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.

• 2 Kings 6:24

  And it happened after this that Ben-hadad, king of Aram, gathered all his army and went up and besieged Samaria.

• 2 Kings 6:25

  There was a great famine in Samaria, and there they were, besieging it, until a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.

• 2 Kings 12:10

  And it happened, whenever they saw that there was much silver in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest went up and tied it up and counted the silver that was found in the house of YHWH.

• 2 Kings 16:5

  Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem for war, and they besieged Ahaz, but they could not fight.

• 2 Kings 17:5

  The king of Assyria came up through all the land, went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

• 2 Kings 18:9

  And it happened in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, that was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it.

• 2 Kings 24:11

  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city while his servants were besieging it.

• 1 Chronicles 20:1

  And it happened, at the turn of the year, at the time when the kings go out, that Joab led out the force of the army and destroyed the land of the sons of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed in Jerusalem. And Joab struck Rabbah and tore it down.

• 2 Chronicles 6:28

  When there is famine in the land, when there is pestilence, when there are blight and mildew, locust and hopper; when their enemies besiege them in the land of their gates; any sore and any sickness;

• 2 Chronicles 28:20

  Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came against him and distressed him, and did not strengthen him.

• Esther 8:11

  in which the king granted the Jews who were in every city permission to assemble and to stand for their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to make perish any army of any people or province that might harass them, little ones and women, and to plunder their spoil,

• Psalms 139:5

  Behind and before you have hemmed me in, and you have laid on me your palm.

• Song of Songs 8:9

  If she is a wall, we will build on her battlements of silver; and if she is a door, we will enclose her with a board of cedar.

• Isaiah 21:2

  A harsh vision has been told to me: the traitor betrays, and the devastator devastates. Go up, Elam! Lay siege, Media! All its sighing I have brought to an end.

• Isaiah 29:3

  And I will encamp in a circle against you, and I will besiege you with a guard post, and I will raise against you siege works.

• Jeremiah 21:4

  ‘Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: Look, I am turning back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the wall; and I will gather them into the midst of this city.

• Jeremiah 21:9

  He who stays in this city will die by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence; but he who goes out and falls away to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live, and he will have his life as plunder.

• Jeremiah 32:2

  Now at that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the house of the king of Judah,

• Jeremiah 37:5

  And the army of Pharaoh had come out of Egypt, and the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard the news of them, and they withdrew from Jerusalem.

• Jeremiah 39:1

  In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his force came against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

• Ezekiel 4:3

  And you, take for yourself an iron griddle and set it as an iron wall between you and the city, and direct your face toward it, and it will be under siege, and you will besiege it; it is a sign for the house of Israel.

• Ezekiel 5:3

  And you will take from there a few in number and bind them in the hems of your robe.

• Daniel 1:1

  In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.