Job 15:24:2Job.15.24.W2TAB
צַ֣ר
tsar
“distress”
- Transliteration
- TSAR
- Extended
- TSAHR
- IPA
- /ˈtsar/
Meaning by language
- English
- distress
Alphabet Analysis
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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Word in context
- word
TSAR
- clause
ye-va-a-TE-hu TSAR u-me-tsu-KA
- sentence
ye-va-a-TE-hu TSAR u-me-tsu-KA tit-ke-FE-hu ke-ME-lekh a-TID la-KI-dor
Exegesis
The verse opens with the fronted verb yevaatuhu {יְֽ֭בַעֲתֻהוּ | yəvaʿătúhû} ‘they terrify him’, a poetic personification in which the following pair tsar {צַ֣ר | ṣar} ‘distress’ and umetsuqah {וּמְצוּקָ֑ה | ûməṣûqâ} ‘anguish’ functions as the agent of fear.
Root and etymology
consonantsTsade–Resh–Resh
“to bind tight”
In context — Job 15:24
Distress and anguish terrify him; it overpowers him like a king ready for attack .
About this coordinate
Job 15:24:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Job 15:24, so the Hebrew word צַ֣ר (tsar) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Job.15.24.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.15.24.W2.S1) and character.