ba.tsar most often describes defended cities and walls, with verbal uses for grape gathering, preventing, and strengthening defenses.

The dominant attested use characterizes cities and a wall as fortified or defensible; the verbal forms also occur in vineyard gathering, in statements that a plan cannot be prevented, and in actions of strengthening a wall or height. One noun-tagged occurrence in Zechariah 11:2 is not clearly isolated by the translation.

1. Fortified cities and walls · dominant

   Feminine adjective forms modify cities in Deuteronomy 3:5, where the APB renders cities with a high wall, doors, and a bar as “fortified,” and in 2 Kings 18:13, where such cities are attacked and captured. The same form also characterizes a wall in Jeremiah 15:20 and cities restored to habitation in Ezekiel 36:35.

   Deuteronomy 3:52 Kings 18:13Jeremiah 15:20Ezekiel 36:35Numbers 13:28Isaiah 2:15
2. Gathering grapes from vines · common

   Qal verbal forms occur in vineyard contexts: Deuteronomy 24:21 directs the hearer not to gather again after gathering vineyard grapes, while Judges 9:27 says that people went into the field and gathered their vineyards. Participles in Jeremiah 49:9 and Obadiah 1:5 depict grape-gatherers who would leave gleanings.

   Deuteronomy 24:21Judges 9:27Leviticus 25:5Jeremiah 49:9Obadiah 1:5Jeremiah 6:9
3. Not prevented or held back · rare

   The Niphal imperfect in Genesis 11:6 occurs in the statement that nothing the people plan will be “impossible” for them in the APB. In Job 42:2, the same morphology appears in the declaration that no purpose can be “restrained.”

   Genesis 11:6Job 42:2
4. Strengthening a defensive structure · rare

   A Piel infinitive in Isaiah 22:10 occurs where houses are torn down “to fortify the wall” in the APB. Jeremiah 51:53 uses a Piel imperfect in the conditional picture of Babylon fortifying “the height of her strength.”

   Isaiah 22:10Jeremiah 51:53

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the adjective clauses, the APB commonly uses “fortified” for cities and a wall; in vineyard contexts it uses “gather” and “gatherers.” It also renders the Niphal clauses with “impossible” and “restrained” and the Piel clauses with “fortify”; these are translation renderings rather than word-level alignment.