1) to gather, restrain, fence, fortify, make inaccessible, enclose

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to cut off

1a2) fortified, cut off, made inaccessible (pass participle)

1a3) secrets, mysteries, inaccessible things (subst)

1b) (Niphal) to be withheld

1c) (Piel) to fortify

Root √בצר: בָּצַר vb cut off make inaccessible enclose Qal cut off grape-gathering -gatherer cut off , grape-clusters; hence,; fig.(= take away) Niph be withheld . Pi fortify . (esp. by fortifying),

בָּצַר vb cut off make inaccessible enclose Qal cut off grape-gathering -gatherer cut off , grape-clusters; hence,; fig.(= take away) Niph be withheld . Pi fortify . (esp. by fortifying),