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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H6696
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
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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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