Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H3334: יָצַר

yâtsar · pronounced yaw-tsar' · “be distressed”

Definition

to press (intransitive), i.e. be narrow; figuratively, be in distress

KJV translates it as: be distressed, be narrow, be straitened (in straits), be vexed.

Word origin: a primitive root;

Extended definition

1) to bind, be distressed, be in distress, be cramped, be narrow, be scant, be in straits, make narrow, cause distress, beseige
1a) (Qal) to suffer distress

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H3334 is translated

  • it was distress ×5
  • they caused distress ×1
  • they are restricted ×1
  • it will be distress ×1
  • anyone will hinder ×1
  • you will be too cramped ×1

Bible verses with H3334 (yâtsar)

Yâtsar appears in 10 verses.

  • Genesis 32:7

    Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

  • Judges 2:15

    Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.

  • Judges 10:9

    Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.

  • 1 Samuel 30:6

    And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.

  • 2 Samuel 13:2

    And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her.

  • Nehemiah 9:27

    Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.

  • Job 18:7

    The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

  • Job 20:22

    In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

  • Proverbs 4:12

    When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

  • Isaiah 49:19

    For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

Words derived from H3334