צָרַר
ṣārar
confine
Strong's H6887VerbHebrewTWOT 1974

צָרַר (ṣārar) is a Hebrew verb meaning confine. It appears 53 times in 20 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H6887).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1974)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1974)shew hostility toward, vex; cramp; adversary, afflict, affliction, beseige, bind, distress, enemy, narrower, oppress, pangs, shut up, be in a strait
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

צָרַר verb: shew hostility toward, vex

Strong's H6887 צָרַר: to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive
KJV:adversary, (be in) afflict(-ion), beseige, bind (up), (be in, bring) distress, enemy, narrower, oppress, pangs, shut up, be in a strait (trouble), vex.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

See it in Scripture

Exodus 12:34Leviticus 18:18Numbers 10:9

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