Are the roots צור (to form, shape, fashion) יצר (to create) and צר (to shape, form, model) related or do they just share similar meanings?
Are there any commentaries, scriptures, that connect these roots?
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צור and צר definitely are, as the vav can often be omitted from the middle of a root. יצר most likely is as well. In general, when you have words with similar form and similar meaning, they're related.– ScimonsterCommented Oct 29, 2016 at 21:09
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How do you know these roots have these meanings? I've never heard of a root צר meaning that, or, I think, צור.– Double AA ♦Commented Oct 29, 2016 at 23:08
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@ double AA: Found it in Hirsch his dictionary. P.s. See also doitinhebrew.com dictionary– LeviCommented Oct 30, 2016 at 5:39
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1צר is not a root - all biblical Hebrew roots are three letters– Joshua PearlCommented Nov 2, 2016 at 19:50
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@JoshuaPearl צר may not be a root but could be seem as a parent root or structure to create different root words. But what I was trying to show is that I found these certain letter combinations with certain meanings when transfered to different words which seemed comparable. I also read about the common denomitor between them having to do with 'pressing' and also 'forming'. Which made me wonder...– LeviCommented Nov 4, 2016 at 6:20
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According to the theory of R. Sh. R. Hirsh there is a relation between the following roots:
יצר - form, compress
נצר - save, protect, preserve
צור - compress, press on all sides, confine
צרה - squeeze, be in trouble
צרר - compress, combine, force, constrain
These roots are related via gradational variants (doubling of consonant, using special consonants נ, ה, ו, י Source: Etymological Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew by R. M. Clark.
There are several different words written as צר. According to the sefer אמרי מדריך on Chumash, we have the following cases of roots. Shemos 4:25, Devarim 28:52: צור; Bamidbar 10:9, 22:26: צרר.
