צוּר tsûwr — to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile)
Translated in the KJV as adversary, assault, beset, besiege, bind, cast, distress, fashion, fortify, inclose, lay siege, put up in bags.
a primitive root; to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile).
tsûwr in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 13Participle (active) 9Sequential perfect (weqatal) 5Jussive 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Infinitive construct 1Perfect (qatal) 1Imperative 1
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.
And the Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Wayyiqtol 1
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:
And Tilgath–pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
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 ›