Strong H68875 sensesצָרַר

The 5 senses of Strong H6887

The lexicon tells 5 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H6887 appears in 56 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

1. to vexH6887Dto show hostility toward, vex25 verses · 6 books
2. to constrainH6887Bto bind, be narrow, be in distress, make narrow, cause distress, besiege, be straitened, be bound21 verses · 14 books
3. to distressH6887Cto suffer distress2 verses · Jeremiah
4. to rivalH6887Eto make a rival-wife1 verse · Leviticus
5. to confineH6887Ato confine, besiegeNot in the KJV

General definition

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

• enemy15
• bind7
• vex6
• distress6
• afflict4
• adversary3
• besiege3
• strait3
• bindeth2
• pang2
• trouble2
• affliction1

First verses

1. Exodus 12:34
   And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
2. Exodus 23:22
   But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
3. Leviticus 18:18
   Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
4. Numbers 10:9
   And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the Lord your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
5. Numbers 25:17
   Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
6. Numbers 25:18
   For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake.
7. Numbers 33:55
   But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
8. Deuteronomy 28:52
   And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.
9. Joshua 9:4
   They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
10. Judges 11:7
    And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father’s house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?
11. 1 Samuel 13:6
    When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
12. 1 Samuel 25:29
    Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
13. 1 Samuel 28:15
    And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
14. 2 Samuel 1:26
    I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
15. 2 Samuel 20:3
    And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
16. 2 Samuel 24:14
    And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
17. 1 Kings 8:37
    If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
18. 1 Chronicles 21:13
    And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the Lord; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.
19. 2 Chronicles 6:28
    If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
20. 2 Chronicles 28:22
    And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord: this is that king Ahaz.