Strong's Hebrew · H6696
צוּר
tsûwr · tsoor
adversary, assault, beset, besiege, bind (up), cast, distress, fashion, fortify, inclose, lay siege, put up in bags.
Definition
to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile)
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 38 times in Scripture
“When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?”
“In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.”
“He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!””
“But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city.”
“then exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place the LORD your God will choose.”
“But when you get close to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the Ammonites. I have given it to the descendants of Lot as their possession.””
“But if you will listen carefully to his voice and do everything I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.”
“Then Saul summoned all his troops to go to war at Keilah and besiege David and his men.”
“Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.””
“So he covertly sent messengers to Abimelech to say, “Look, Gaal son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem and are stirring up the city against you.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).