ya.tsar describes distressing pressure, including affliction of people and constraint that hampers a course.

The dominant use portrays people or groups brought under severe pressure or affliction, whether David, Amnon, Israel, or those delivered over to enemies. A smaller cluster applies the term to constraining conditions that hamper steps or leave a camp vulnerable, with the precise contribution less explicit in Genesis 32:8.

1. Coming under severe pressure or affliction · dominant

   The Qal forms place David under pressure as the people speak of stoning him in 1 Samuel 30:6, and Amnon's condition becomes so severe that he grows weak in 2 Samuel 13:2; in both, the APB renders the clause with "distressed." The same adverse condition is applied to Israel amid attack in Judges 10:9 and under the LORD's hand in Judges 2:15, while Nehemiah 9:27 names enemies "who distressed them."

   1 Samuel 30:62 Samuel 13:2Judges 10:9Judges 2:15Nehemiah 9:27Job 20:22
2. Constraining or hampering circumstances · occasional

   In Job 18:7, the Qal imperfect occurs where a man's vigorous steps are "hampered," and Proverbs 4:12 contrasts walking without a distressed step with stumbling while running. Genesis 32:8 places the sequential imperfect within Jacob's contingency about one camp being struck and the remaining camp escaping, though the APB does not isolate an English counterpart for the term.

   Job 18:7Proverbs 4:12Genesis 32:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with "distressed" or "distress," including David, Amnon, Israel, and those oppressed by enemies. It also uses "hampered" in Job 18:7 and does not clearly mark a corresponding English word in Genesis 32:8.