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Lexicon :: Strong's H6869 - ṣārâ

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צָרָה
Transliteration
ṣārâ
Pronunciation
tsaw-raw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1973c,1974b

Strong’s Definitions

צָרָה tsârâh, tsaw-raw'; feminine of H6862; tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival:—adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 73x

The KJV translates Strong's H6869 in the following manner: trouble (44x), distress (8x), affliction (7x), adversity (5x), anguish (5x), tribulation (3x), adversary (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 73x
The KJV translates Strong's H6869 in the following manner: trouble (44x), distress (8x), affliction (7x), adversity (5x), anguish (5x), tribulation (3x), adversary (1x).

  1. straits, distress, trouble

  2. vexer, rival wife

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
צָרָה tsârâh, tsaw-raw'; feminine of H6862; tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival:—adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble.
STRONGS H6869: Abbreviations
I. צָרָה 72 noun feminine id.; — absolute צ׳ 1 Samuel 26:24 +, צָרָתָה Psalm 120:1 (Ges§ 90g); construct צָרַת Genesis 42:21; suffix צָרָתִי Genesis 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; Job 27:9; especially Psalms (24 times), e.g. Job 22:12; Job 25:17 (see רחב), Job 25:22; Job 31:8; Job 34:17, 18; specifically of travail, צָרָה וַחֲבָלִים Jeremiah 49:24 (simile), compare Jeremiah 4:31 (Gie צְוָחָה, after Greek Version of the LXX); צָרַת נַפְשׁוֺ Genesis 42:21 (E); בְּיוֺם צָרָתִי Genesis 35:3 (E), Psalm 77:3; Psalm 86:7, compare 2 Kings 19:3 = Isaiah 37:3; Psalm 20:2; Psalm 50:15; Proverbs 24:10; Proverbs 25:19; Jeremiah 16:19; Obadiah 12,14; Nahum 1:7; Habakkuk 3:16, וּמְצוּקָה יוֺם צ׳ Zephaniah 1:15; בְּעֵתצָֿרַתְכֶם Judges 10:14, compare Nehemiah 9:27; Psalm 37:39; Isaiah 33:2; Jeremiah 14:8; Jeremiah 15:11; Jeremiah 30:7; Daniel 12:1; also בַּצָּרָה Psalm 81:8, בְּצָרָה Psalm 91:15; Nehemiah 9:37, בְּצָדוֺת Psalm 46:2, etc.; רָעוֺת וְצָרוֺת Deuteronomy 31:17, 21 compare 1 Samuel 10:19; Psalm 71:20, צָרָה וְצוּקָה Proverbs 1:27, וְצ׳ אֶרֶץ צ׳ Isaiah 30:6; with ל (poetry), בַּצָּרָ֫תָה לִי Psalm 120:1 in my distress, מִצָּרָה לִי 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; Psalm 10:1 see H1226 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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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

35:3; 35:3; 42:21; 42:21; 42:21

Deuteronomy

31:17; 31:21

Judges

10:14; 10:14

1 Samuel

1:6; 10:19; 10:19; 26:24; 26:24

2 Samuel

4:9

1 Kings

1:29

2 Kings

19:3

Nehemiah

9:27; 9:37

Job

5:19; 22:12; 27:9; 31:8; 34:17; 34:18

Psalms

9:10; 10:1; 20:2; 37:39; 46:2; 50:15; 71:20; 77:3; 81:8; 86:7; 91:15; 120:1; 120:1

Proverbs

1:27; 24:10; 25:19

Isaiah

8:22; 30:6; 33:2; 37:3; 65:16

Jeremiah

4:31; 14:8; 15:11; 16:19; 30:7; 49:24

Daniel

12:1

Obadiah

1:12

Jonah

2:3

Nahum

1:7

Habakkuk

3:16

Zephaniah

1:15

Zechariah

10:11

H6869

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6869 matches the Hebrew צָרָה (ṣārâ),
which occurs 73 times in 72 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 35:3–Isa 30:6)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:3 - And let us rise and go up to Bæthel, and let us there make an altar to God who hearkened to me in the day of calamity, who was with me, and preserved me throughout in the journey, by which I went.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:21 - And each said to his brother, Yes, indeed, for we are in fault concerning our brother, when we disregarded the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we hearkened not to him; and therefore has this affliction come upon us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:17 - And I will be very angry with them in that day, and I will leave them and turn my face away from them, and they shall be devoured; and many evils and afflictions shall come upon them; and they shall say in that day, Because the Lord my God is not with me, these evils have come upon me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:21 - And this song shall stand up to witness against them; for they shall not forget it out of their mouth, or out of the mouth of their seed; for I know their wickedness, what they are doing here this day, before I have brought them into the good land, which I sware to their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:14 - Go, and cry to the gods whom ye have chosen to yourselves, and let them save you in the time of your affliction.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:6 - For the Lord gave her no child in her affliction, and according to the despondency of her affliction; and she was dispirited on this account, that the Lord shut up her womb so as not to give her a child.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:19 - And ye have this day rejected God, who is himself your Deliverer out of all your evils and afflictions; and ye said, Nay, but thou shalt set a king over us: and now stand before the Lord according to your tribes, and according to your families.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:24 - And, behold, as thy life has been [fn]precious this very day in my eyes, so let my life be [fn]precious before the Lord, and may he protect me, and [fn]deliver me out of all affliction.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:9 - And David answered Rechab and Baana his brother, the sons of Remmon the Berothite, and said to them, As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all affliction;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:29 - And the king swore, and said, As the Lord lives who redeemed my soul out of all affliction,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:3 - And they said to him, Thus says Ezekias, This day is a day of tribulation, and rebuke, and provocation: for the children are come to the travail-pangs, but the mother has no strength.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:6 - And nation shall fight against nation, and city against city; for God has confounded them with every kind of affliction.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:9 - If there should come upon us evils, sword, judgment, pestilence, famine, we will stand before this house, and before thee, (for thy name is upon this house,) and we will cry to thee because of the affliction, and thou shalt hear, and deliver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:27 - Then thou gavest them into the hand of them that afflicted them, and they did afflict them: and they cried to thee in the time of their affliction, and thou didst hear them from thy heaven, and in thy great compassions gavest them deliverers, and didst save them from the hand of them that afflicted them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:37 - and its produce is abundant for the kings whom thou didst appoint over us because of our sins; and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, as it pleases them, and we are in great affliction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:19 - Six times he shall deliver thee out of distresses: and in the seventh harm shall not touch thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:9 - Will God hear his prayer? or, when distress has come upon him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:9 - (LXX 9:10) The Lord also is become a refuge for the poor, a seasonable help, in affliction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:1 - (LXX 9:22) [fn]Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why dost thou overlook us in times of need, in affliction?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 20:1 - (LXX 19:1) For the end, a Psalm of David. (19:2) The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:11 - (LXX 21:12) Stand not aloof from me; for affliction is near; for there is no helper.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:17 - (LXX 24:17) The afflictions of my heart have been multiplied; deliver me from my distresses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:22 - (LXX 24:22) Deliver Israel, O God, out of all his afflictions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:7 - (LXX 30:8) I will exult and be glad in thy mercy: for thou hast looked upon mine affliction; thou hast saved my soul from distresses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:6 - (LXX 33:7) This poor man cried, and the Lord hearkened to him, and delivered him out of all his afflictions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:17 - (LXX 33:18) and delivered them out of all their afflictions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:39

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:39 - (LXX 36:39) But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord; and he is their defender in the time of affliction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:1 - (LXX 45:1) For the end, for the sons of Core; a Psalm concerning secret things. (45:2) God is our refuge and strength, a help in the afflictions that have come heavily upon us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:15 - (LXX 49:15) And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Pause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 54:7 - (LXX 53:9) For thou hast delivered me out of all affliction, and mine eye has seen my desire upon mine enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:20 - (LXX 70:20) What afflictions many and sore hast thou shewed me! yet thou didst turn and quicken me, and broughtest me again from the depths of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:2 - (LXX 76:3) In the day of mine affliction I earnestly sought the Lord; even with my hands by night before him, and I was not deceived; my soul refused to be comforted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:49 - (LXX 77:49) He sent out against them the fury of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and affliction, a message by evil angels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:7 - (LXX 80:8) Thou didst call upon me in trouble, and I delivered thee; I heard thee in the secret place of the storm: I proved thee at the water of [fn]Strife. Pause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:7 - (LXX 85:7) In the day of my trouble I cried to thee: for thou didst hear me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:15 - (LXX 90:15) He shall call upon me, and I will hearken to him: I am with him in affliction; and I will deliver him, and glorify him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:3 - (LXX 114:3) The pangs of death compassed me; the dangers of hell found me: I found affliction and sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 120:1 - (LXX 119:1) A Song of Degrees. In mine affliction I cried to the Lord, and he hearkened to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 138:7 - (LXX 137:7) Though I should walk in the midst of affliction, thou wilt quicken me; thou hast stretched forth thine hands against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand has saved me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 142:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 142:2 - (LXX 141:3) I will pour out before him my supplication: I will declare before him mine affliction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:11 - (LXX 142:11) Thou shalt quicken me, O Lord, for thy name's sake; in thy righteousness thou shalt bring my soul out of affliction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:27 - yea when dismay suddenly comes upon you, and your overthrow shall arrive like a tempest; and when tribulation and distress shall come upon you, or when ruin shall come upon you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:8 - A righteous man escapes from a snare, and the ungodly man is delivered up in his place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:13 - For the sin of his lips a sinner falls into snares; but a righteous man escapes from them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:17 - Have thou a friend for every time, and let brethren be useful in distress; for on this account are they born.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:23 - He that keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from trouble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:10 - He shall be defiled in the evil day, and in the day of affliction, until he be utterly consumed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:19 - The way of the wicked and the foot of the transgressor shall perish in an evil day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:22 - and they shall look on the earth below, and behold severe distress, and darkness, affliction, and [fn]anguish, and darkness so that one cannot see; and he that is in anguish shall not be distressed only for a time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6 - The Vision of the Quadrupeds in the Desert. In affliction and distress, where are the lion and lion's whelp, thence come also asps, and the young of flying asps, there shall they be who bore their wealth on asses and camels to a nation which shall not profit them.

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