צָרַר tsârar — to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive
Translated in the KJV as adversary, afflict, beseige, bind, (be in, bring) distress, enemy, narrower, oppress, pangs, shut up, be in a strait.
a primitive root; to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive.
tsârar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 21Perfect (qatal) 9Participle (passive) 4Infinitive construct 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Infinitive absolute 1Wayyiqtol 1Imperative 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
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.
Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
Hiph'il
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Infinitive construct 2Participle (active) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
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.
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;
And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord: this is that king Ahaz.
Pu'al
Participle (passive) 1
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;
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›