Lexical Summary tsarah: straits, distress Original Word: צָרָהTransliteration: tsarah Phonetic Spelling: (tsaw-raw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: straits, distress Meaning: tightness, a female rival Strong's Concordance adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble Feminine of tsar; tightness (i.e. Figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival -- adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble. see HEBREW tsar Brown-Driver-Briggs H6869. tsarah I. צָרָה72 noun feminine id.; — absolute ׳צ 1 Samuel 26:24 +, צָרָתָה Psalm 120:1 (Ges§ 90g); construct צָרַת Genesis 42:21; suffix צָרָתִי 35:3 +, צָרַתְכֶם Judges 10:14, etc.; plural צָרוֺת absolute Isaiah 65:16 +; suffix צָרֹתֵיכֶם 1 Samuel 10:19, etc.; — straits, distress, Genesis 42:21 (E), 1 Samuel 26:24; 2 Samuel 4:9; 1 Kings 1:29; Isaiah 8:22; Job 5:19; 27:9; especially Psalms (24 t.), e.g. 22:12; Job 25:17 (see רחב), Job 25:22; 31:8; 34:17-18, specifically of travail, וַחֲבָלִים צָרָה Jeremiah 49:24 (simile), compare 4:31 (Gie צְוָחָה, after ᵐ5); נַפְשׁוֺ צָרַת Genesis 42:21 (E); צָרָתִי בְּיוֺם 35:3 (E), Psalm 77:3; 86:7, compare 2 Kings 19:3 = Isaiah 37:3; Psalm 20:2; 50:15; Proverbs 24:10; 25:19; Jeremiah 16:19; Obadiah 12, 14; Nahum 1:7; Habakkuk 3:16, צ ׳יוֺם וּמְצוּקָה Zephaniah 1:15; בְּעֵתצָֿרַתְכֶם Judges 10:14, compare Nehemiah 9:27; Psalm 37:39; Isaiah 33:2; Jeremiah 14:8; 15:11; 30:7; Daniel 12:1; also בַּצָּרָה Psalm 81:8, בְּצָרָה 91:15; Nehemiah 9:37, בְּצָדוֺת Psalm 46:2, etc.; וְצָרוֺת רָעוֺת Deuteronomy 31:17, 21 compare 1 Samuel 10:19; Psalm 71:20, וְצוּקָה צָרָה Proverbs 1:27, צ ׳אֶרֶץ ׳וְצ Isaiah 30:6; with ל (poetry), לִי בַּצָּרָ֫תָה Psalm 120:1 in my distress, לִי מִצָּרָה Jonah 2:3. — צָרָה Zechariah 10:11, read מִצְרַיִם [or מָצוֺר] We Now GASm; צֹ֫רָה KloThLz, 1879, 566 StaZAW i (1881), 22; Psalm 9:10; 10:1 see בַּצָּרָה. II. [צָרָה] noun feminine vexer, rival-wife (see references below √; also Ecclus 37:11); — suffix צָרָתָהּ 1 Samuel 1:6. |
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