צַר
tsar (H6862C)
enemy
AI Word Study
The Hebrew word "tsar" (H6862C) is a term that refers to an enemy. Its semantic domain is Warfare & Conflict, indicating that it is primarily used in contexts related to opposition, hostility, or combat. With 69 occurrences in the Bible, "tsar" is a relatively common word that appears in various genres of scripture, including historical accounts, prophetic writings, and poetic expressions. The meaning of "tsar" is straightforward: it denotes an individual or group that is hostile towards the speaker or their community. The word can be used to describe a literal enemy, such as a foreign nation or a rival tribe, but it can also be used metaphorically to describe a spiritual enemy, such as Satan or the forces of evil. In its range of usage, "tsar" is often paired with other words that convey a sense of opposition or conflict, such as "war" or "battle". The significance of "tsar" lies in its ability to convey the reality of conflict and opposition in human experience. By using this word, biblical authors highlight the challenges and struggles that people face in their lives, whether they be physical, emotional, or spiritual. Through the concept of "tsar", the Bible acknowledges the existence of enemies and the need for vigilance, courage, and faith in the face of adversity.
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Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.
When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.
God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall consume the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.
were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.’ ”
if I sharpen my glittering sword, my hand grasps it in judgment; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay those who hate me.
Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.
This is for Judah. He said, “Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah. Bring him in to his people. With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help against his adversaries.”
When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our enemies?”
So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.”
either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and Yahweh’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’ ”
Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple to Yahweh, the God of Israel;
Our adversaries said, “They will not know or see, until we come in among them and kill them, and cause the work to cease.”
Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries.
Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand?’ or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?’
He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;” lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.
When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, we will tread down those who rise up against us.
But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.
You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.
Through God we will do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.
How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.
He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.
I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.
You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.
A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.
He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.
The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.
Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,
Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.
Through God, we will do valiantly. For it is he who will tread down our enemies.
His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.
My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.
Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.
and has delivered us from our adversaries; for his loving kindness endures forever:
Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies.
Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,
Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
According to their deeds, he will repay as appropriate, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; he will repay the islands their due.
Your holy people possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
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