yatsar · be distressed

What it means

yatsar (יָצַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be distressed”.

Be in a tight spot, be distressed.

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 feel squeezed by fear or sorrow.
2. To be too small a place for those who live in it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• distressed ×4
• are cramped ×1
• be hampered ×1
• he will be in straits ×1
• they were in distress ×1
• was in distress ×1
• will be too narrow ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×2
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1

• Genesis 32:7

  Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, the cattle, and the camels, into two camps.

• Judges 2:15

  Wherever they went out, the hand of YHWH was against them for evil, as YHWH had spoken and as YHWH had sworn to them; and they were in distress greatly.

• Judges 10:9

  The sons of Ammon crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah, against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, and Israel was in distress greatly.

• 1 Samuel 30:6

  David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was bitter, each for his sons and for his daughters. But David strengthened himself in YHWH his Elohim.

• 2 Samuel 13:2

  Amnon was so distressed that he made himself ill because of Tamar his sister, for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible in the eyes of Amnon to do anything to her.

• Nehemiah 9:27

  So you gave them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them; and in the time of their distress they would cry out to you, and you from the heavens would hear, and according to your many mercies you would give them saviors, and they would save them from the hand of their adversaries.

• Job 18:7

  The steps of his vigor are cramped, and his own counsel throws him down.

• Job 20:22

  In the fullness of his plenty he will be in straits; every hand of the sufferer will come upon him.

• Proverbs 4:12

  When you walk, your steps will not be hampered; and if you run, you will not stumble.

• Isaiah 49:19

  For your ruins and your desolate places and the land of your destruction surely now will be too narrow for the inhabitant, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.