Deuteronomy 20:12
And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
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Besiege
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Jeremiah 21:9
He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
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4 occurrences in 3 verses.
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צוּר
tsûwr · tsoor
7 times translated as this KJV form38 total Strong's occurrences
to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile)
Strong's KJV usage: adversary, assault, beset, besiege, bind (up), cast, distress, fashion, fortify, inclose, lay siege, put up in bags.
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Strong's first: Deuteronomy 20:12Strong's last: Jeremiah 21:9
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tsârar · tsaw-rar'
4 times translated as this KJV form57 total Strong's occurrences
to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive
Strong's KJV usage: adversary, (be in) afflict(-ion), beseige, bind (up), (be in, bring) distress, enemy, narrower, oppress, pangs, shut up, be in a strait (trouble), vex.
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Strong's first: Deuteronomy 28:52Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 6:28
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And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
H6696
When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
H6887
And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
H6887
And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
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besiege
BESIE'GE, verb transitive [be and siege.]
1. To lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset, or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender, either by famine or by violent attacks; as, to besiege a castle or city.
2. To beset; to throng round.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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