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Lexicon :: Strong's H1219 - bāṣar

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בָּצַר
Transliteration
bāṣar
Pronunciation
baw-tsar'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 270

Strong’s Definitions

בָּצַר bâtsar, baw-tsar'; a primitive root; to clip off; specifically (as denominative from H1210) to gather grapes; also to be isolated (i.e. inaccessible by height or fortification):—cut off, (de-) fenced, fortify, (grape) gather(-er), mighty things, restrain, strong, wall (up), withhold.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x

The KJV translates Strong's H1219 in the following manner: fenced (15x), defenced (5x), gather (4x), grapegatherers (3x), fortify (2x), cut off (1x), restrained (1x), strong (1x), mighty things (1x), walled up (1x), fenced up (1x), walled (1x), withholden (1x), non translated variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x
The KJV translates Strong's H1219 in the following manner: fenced (15x), defenced (5x), gather (4x), grapegatherers (3x), fortify (2x), cut off (1x), restrained (1x), strong (1x), mighty things (1x), walled up (1x), fenced up (1x), walled (1x), withholden (1x), non translated variant (1x).

  1. to gather, restrain, fence, fortify, make inaccessible, enclose

    1. (Qal)

      1. to cut off

      2. fortified, cut off, made inaccessible (pass participle)

      3. secrets, mysteries, inaccessible things (subst)

    2. (Niphal) to be withheld

    3. (Piel) to fortify

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בָּצַר bâtsar, baw-tsar'; a primitive root; to clip off; specifically (as denominative from H1210) to gather grapes; also to be isolated (i.e. inaccessible by height or fortification):—cut off, (de-) fenced, fortify, (grape) gather(-er), mighty things, restrain, strong, wall (up), withhold.
STRONGS H1219: Abbreviations
† [בָּצַר] verb cut off, make inaccessible (especially by fortifying), enclose (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic בְּצַר, bdb013012 (Pa. diminish, substract), perhaps compare Arabic bdb013013 side, edge, bdb013014, etc., rough stone, bdb013015 land in which are sharp stones (compare Lane)) —
Qal Imperfect יִבְצֹר Psalm 76:13; 2nd person masculine singular תִּבְצֹר Leviticus 25:5; Deuteronomy 24:21, וַיִּבְצְרוּ Judges 9:27, תִּבְצְרוּ Leviticus 25:11; Participle active בּוֺצֵר Jeremiah 6:9, ֽֽֽבֹּצְרִים Jeremiah 49:9; Obadiah 5; passive masculine בָּצוּר [H1208 Zechariah 11:2] Kt (Qr בָּצִיר), feminine בְּצוּרָה Isaiah 2:15 + 3 times + Ezekiel 21:25 see below; plural feminine בְּצוּרוֺת Ezekiel 36:35, בְּצֻרוֺת Numbers 13:28 + 14 times, בְּצוּרֹת Deuteronomy 1:28; Nehemiah 9:25, בְּצֻרֹת Deuteronomy 3:5; Deuteronomy 9:1; — cut off, grape-clusters, ענבים Leviticus 25:5, compare Leviticus 25:11 (object נזיר), Deuteronomy 24:21; Judges 9:27 (object in both, כרם); hence Participle active grape-gathering, -gatherer Jeremiah 6:9; Jeremiah 49:9; Obadiah 5; figurative cut off (= take away) Psalm 76:13 (object רות נגידים); most often Passive participle cut off, made inaccessible, De Isaiah 2:15 = fortified, always f.; generally adjective with עיר, ערים; Numbers 13:28; Deuteronomy 1:28; Deuteronomy 3:5; Deuteronomy 9:1; Joshua 14:12; 2 Samuel 20:6; 2 Kings 18:13 = Isaiah 36:1; 2 Kings 19:25 = Isaiah 37:26; 2 Chronicles 17:2; 19:5; 32:1; 33:14; Nehemiah 9:25; Isaiah 25:2; Isaiah 27:10; Ezekiel 36:35; Hosea 8:14; Zephaniah 1:16; rarely with חומה Deuteronomy 28:52; Isaiah 2:15; Jeremiah 15:20; יער הב׳ [H1208 Zechariah 11:2] (read Kt); once, substantive of secrets, mysteries (= unattainable things) Jeremiah 33:3; — ב׳ Ezekiel 21:25 Greek Version of the LXX Sm Co בְּתוֺכָהּ, doubtless right.
Niph. Imperfect יִבָּצֵר be withheld Genesis 11:6 (מֵהֶם), Job 42:2 (מִמְּךָ).
Pi. Imperfect 3rd person feminine singular תְּבַצֵּר Jeremiah 51:53 fortify; so Infinitive לְבַּצֵר Isaiah 22:10.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

11:6

Leviticus

25:5; 25:5; 25:11; 25:11

Numbers

13:28; 13:28

Deuteronomy

1:28; 1:28; 3:5; 3:5; 9:1; 9:1; 24:21; 24:21; 28:52

Joshua

14:12

Judges

9:27; 9:27

2 Samuel

20:6

2 Kings

18:13; 19:25

2 Chronicles

17:2; 19:5; 32:1; 33:14

Nehemiah

9:25; 9:25

Job

42:2

Isaiah

2:15; 2:15; 2:15; 22:10; 25:2; 27:10; 36:1; 37:26

Jeremiah

6:9; 6:9; 15:20; 33:3; 49:9; 49:9; 51:53

Ezekiel

21:25; 21:25; 36:35; 36:35

Hosea

8:14

Obadiah

1:5; 1:5

Zephaniah

1:16

H1219

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1219 matches the Hebrew בָּצַר (bāṣar),
which occurs 38 times in 38 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:6 - And the LORD said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:5 - ‘What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine, for it is a year of rest for the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:11 - ‘That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:28 - “Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:28 - ‘Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.” ’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:5 - “All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many rural towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:1 - “Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:21 - “When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:52

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:52 - “They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the LORD your God has given you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:12 - “Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall be able to drive them out as the LORD said.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:27 - So they went out into the fields, and gathered grapes from their vineyards and trod them, and made merry. And they went into the house of their god, and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:6 - And David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your lord’s servants and pursue him, lest he find for himself fortified cities, and escape us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:13 - And in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:25 - ‘Did you not hear long ago
How I made it,
From ancient times that I formed it?
Now I have brought it to pass,
That you should be
For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 17:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:2 - And he placed troops in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim which Asa his father had taken.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 19:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:5 - Then he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:1 - After these deeds of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and entered Judah; he encamped against the fortified cities, thinking to win them over to himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:14 - After this he built a wall outside the City of David on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate; and it enclosed Ophel, and he raised it to a very great height. Then he put military captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:25 - And they took strong cities and a rich land,
And possessed houses full of all goods,
Cisterns already dug, vineyards, olive groves,
And fruit trees in abundance.
So they ate and were filled and grew fat,
And delighted themselves in Your great goodness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 42:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:2 - “I know that You can do everything,
And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 76:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 76:12 - He shall cut off the spirit of princes;
He is awesome to the kings of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:15 - Upon every high tower,
And upon every fortified wall;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:10 - You numbered the houses of Jerusalem,
And the houses you broke down
To fortify the wall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:2 - For You have made a city a ruin,
A fortified city a ruin,
A palace of foreigners to be a city no more;
It will never be rebuilt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:10 - Yet the fortified city will be desolate,
The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness;
There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down
And consume its branches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 36:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:1 - Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:26 - “Did you not hear long ago
How I made it,
From ancient times that I formed it?
Now I have brought it to pass,
That you should be
For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:9 - Thus says the LORD of hosts:

“They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel;
As a grape-gatherer, put your hand back into the branches.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:20 - And I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall;
And they will fight against you,
But they shall not prevail against you;
For I am with you to save you
And deliver you,” says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 33:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:3 - ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:9 - If grape-gatherers came to you,
Would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
If thieves by night,
Would they not destroy until they have enough?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:53

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:53 - Though Babylon were to mount up to heaven,
And though she were to fortify the height of her strength,
Yet from Me plunderers would come to her,” says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:20 - “Appoint a road for the sword to go to Rabbah of the Ammonites, and to Judah, into fortified Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:35 - “So they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted, desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:14 - “For Israel has forgotten his Maker,
And has built temples;[fn]
Judah also has multiplied fortified cities;
But I will send fire upon his cities,
And it shall devour his palaces.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:5 - “If thieves had come to you,
If robbers by night—
Oh, how you will be cut off!—
Would they not have stolen till they had enough?
If grape-gatherers had come to you,
Would they not have left some gleanings?

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:16 - A day of trumpet and alarm
Against the fortified cities
And against the high towers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:2 - Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,
Because the mighty trees are ruined.
Wail, O oaks of Bashan,
For the thick forest has come down.
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