צַר
tsar
enemy
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Occurrences in Scripture
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Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.
Numbers 10:9When 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.
Numbers 24:8God 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.
Deuteronomy 32:27were 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.’ ”
Deuteronomy 32:41if 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.
Deuteronomy 32:43Rejoice, 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.
Deuteronomy 33:7This 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.”
Joshua 5:13When 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?”
2 Samuel 24:13So 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.”
1 Chronicles 12:17David 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.”
1 Chronicles 21:12either 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.’ ”
Ezra 4:1Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple to Yahweh, the God of Israel;
Nehemiah 4:11Our adversaries said, “They will not know or see, until we come in among them and kill them, and cause the work to cease.”
Nehemiah 9:27Therefore 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.
Nehemiah 9:27Therefore 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 7:6Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
Job 6:23or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand?’ or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?’
Job 16:9He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
Job 19:11He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
Job 36:16Yes, 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.
Psalms 3:1Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
Psalms 13:4lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;” lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.
Psalms 27:2When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
Psalms 27:12Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
Psalms 44:5Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, we will tread down those who rise up against us.
Psalms 44:7But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.
Psalms 44:10You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.
Psalms 60:11Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.
Psalms 60:12Through God we will do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.
Psalms 74:10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
Psalms 78:42They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
Psalms 78:61and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.
Psalms 78:66He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.
Psalms 81:14I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
Psalms 89:23I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.
Psalms 89:42You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.
Psalms 97:3A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.
Psalms 105:24He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.
Psalms 106:11The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.
Psalms 107:2Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,
Psalms 108:12Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.
Psalms 108:13Through God, we will do valiantly. For it is he who will tread down our enemies.
Psalms 112:8His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.
Psalms 119:139My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.
Psalms 119:157Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.
Psalms 136:24and has delivered us from our adversaries; for his loving kindness endures forever:
Isaiah 1:24Therefore 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.
Isaiah 9:11Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,
Isaiah 26:11Yahweh, 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.
Isaiah 59:18According to their deeds, he will repay as appropriate, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; he will repay the islands their due.