- Original: יצר - Transliteration: Yatsar - Phonetic: yaw-tsar' - Definition: 1. to bind, be distressed, be in distress, be cramped, be narrow, be scant, be in straits, make narrow, cause distress, beseige a. (Qal) to suffer distress - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 1973 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to press (intransitively) that is be narrow; figuratively be in distress: - be distressed be narrow be straitened (in straits) be vexed. Total KJV Occurrences: 8 • distressed, 4 Genesis 32:7; Judges 2:15; Judges 10:9; 1 Samuel 30:6 • narrow, 1 Isaiah 49:19 • straitened, 2 Job 18:7; Proverbs 4:12 • straits, 1 Job 20:22