צָרָה
tsârâh · tsaw-raw'
tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival:
Lexicon
Derivation: feminine of H6862 (צַר);
tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival:
- tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble)
- transitively, a female rival:
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble.
Letters
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to pursue the straight path › the head, the highest › to reveal, behold
To pursue the straight path of the head, the highest that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of צָרָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
73 occurrences · 73 OT · 0 NT · 49 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of trouble18 · 35%
- troubles3 · 6%
- and troubles2 · 4%
- in trouble2 · 4%
- of my trouble2 · 4%
- trouble2 · 4%
- anguish2 · 4%
- of affliction2 · 4%
- of distress2 · 4%
- of my distress1 · 2%
- the anguish1 · 2%
- therefore is this distress1 · 2%
- of your tribulation1 · 2%
- and her adversary1 · 2%
- and your tribulations1 · 2%
- me out of all tribulation1 · 2%
- out of all adversity1 · 2%
- out of all distress1 · 2%
- them with all adversity1 · 2%
- unto thee in our affliction1 · 2%
- of their trouble1 · 2%
- distress1 · 2%
- when trouble1 · 2%
- from me; for trouble1 · 2%
- the troubles1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.