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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 we rise, and go up to Bethel, and I make there an altar to God, who is answering me in the day of my distress, and is with me in the way that I have gone.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:21 - And they say one unto another, 'Verily we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul, in his making supplication unto us, and we did not hearken: therefore hath this distress come upon us.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:17 - and Mine anger hath burned against it in that day, and I have forsaken them, and hidden My face from them, and it hath been for consumption, and many evils and distresses have found it, and it hath said in that day, Is it not because that my God is not in my midst -- these evils have found me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:21 - 'And it hath been, when many evils and distresses do meet it, that this song hath testified to its face for a witness; for it is not forgotten out of the mouth of its seed, for I have known its imagining which it is doing to-day, before I bring them in unto the land of which I have sworn.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:14 - Go and cry unto the gods on which ye have fixed; they -- they save you in the time of your adversity.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:6 - and her adversity hath also provoked her greatly, so as to make her tremble, for Jehovah hath shut up her womb.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:19 - and ye to-day have rejected your God, who is Himself your saviour out of all your evils and your distresses, and ye say, 'Nay, but -- a king thou dost set over us; and now, station yourselves before Jehovah, by your tribes, and by your thousands.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:24 - and lo, as thy soul hath been great this day in mine eyes, so is my soul great in the eyes of Jehovah, and He doth deliver me out of all distress.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:9 - And David answereth Rechab and Baanah his brother, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and saith to them, 'Jehovah liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:29 - And the king sweareth and saith, 'Jehovah liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:3 - and they say unto him, 'Thus said Hezekiah -- A day of distress, and rebuke, and despising is this day; for come have sons unto the birth, and power there is not to bring forth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:6 - and they have been beaten down, nation by nation, and city by city, for God hath troubled them with every adversity;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:9 - If evil doth come upon us -- sword, judgment, and pestilence, and famine -- we stand before this house, and before Thee, for Thy name is in this house, and cry unto Thee out of our distress, and Thou dost hear and save.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:27 - and Thou givest them into the hand of their adversaries, and they distress them, and in the time of their distress they cry unto Thee, and Thou, from the heavens, dost hear, and, according to Thine abundant mercies, dost give to them saviours, and they save them out of the hand of their adversaries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:37 - and its increase it is multiplying to the kings whom Thou hast set over us in our sins; and over our bodies they are ruling, and over our cattle, according to their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:19 - In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:9 - His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:9 - And Jehovah is a tower for the bruised, A tower for times of adversity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:1 - Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 20:1 - To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Jehovah doth answer thee, In a day of adversity, The name of the God of Jacob doth set thee on high,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:11 - Be not far from me, For adversity is near, for there is no helper.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 25:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:17 - The distresses of my heart have enlarged themselves, From my distresses bring me out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 25:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:22 - Redeem Israel, O God, from all his distresses!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:7 - I rejoice, and am glad in Thy kindness, In that Thou hast seen mine affliction, Thou hast known in adversities my soul.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 34:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:6 - This poor one called, and Jehovah heard, And from all his distresses saved him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:17 - They cried, and Jehovah heard, And from all their distresses delivered them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 37:39

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:39 - And the salvation of the righteous is from Jehovah, Their strong place in a time of adversity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 46:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:1 - To the Overseer. -- By sons of Korah. 'For the Virgins.' -- A song. God is to us a refuge and strength, A help in adversities found most surely.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 50:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:15 - And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 54:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 54:7 - For, from all adversity He delivered me, And on mine enemies hath mine eye looked!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 71:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:20 - Because Thou hast showed me many and sad distresses, Thou turnest back -- Thou revivest me, And from the depths of the earth, Thou turnest back -- Thou bringest me up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 77:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:2 - In a day of my distress the Lord I sought, My hand by night hath been spread out, And it doth not cease, My soul hath refused to be comforted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:49

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:49 - He sendeth on them the fury of His anger, Wrath, and indignation, and distress -- A discharge of evil messengers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 81:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:7 - In distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try thee by the waters of Meribah. Selah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 86:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:7 - In a day of my distress I call Thee, For Thou dost answer me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 91:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:15 - He doth call Me, and I answer him, I am with him in distress, I deliver him, and honour him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 116:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:3 - Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 120:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 120:1 - A Song of the Ascents. Unto Jehovah in my distress I have called, And He answereth me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 138:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 138:7 - If I walk in the midst of distress Thou quickenest me, Against the anger of mine enemies Thou sendest forth Thy hand, And Thy right hand doth save me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 142:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 142:2 - I pour forth before Him my meditation, My distress before Him I declare.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 143:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:11 - For Thy name's sake O Jehovah, Thou dost quicken me, In Thy righteousness, Thou bringest out from distress my soul,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:27 - When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:8 - The righteous from distress is drawn out, And the wicked goeth in instead of him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:13 - In transgression of the lips is the snare of the wicked, And the righteous goeth out from distress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 17:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:17 - At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:23 - Whoso is keeping his mouth and his tongue, Is keeping from adversities his soul.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:10 - Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 25:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:19 - A bad tooth, and a tottering foot, Is the confidence of the treacherous in a day of adversity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:22 - And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6 - The burden of the beasts of the south. Into a land of adversity and distress, Of young lion and of old lion, Whence are viper and flying saraph, They carry on the shoulder of asses their wealth, And on the hump of camels their treasures, Unto a people not profitable.

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