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צָרָה
tsârâh · Hebrew · Strong's H6869 · 73 occurrences
The KJV renders 29 different Hebrew and Greek words as “trouble”
What it means
tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival:
feminine of H6862 (צַר);
How the KJV renders it
adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“trouble”
also renders parenochléō (G3926), tyrbázō (G5182), tarássō (G5015), throéō (G2360), thlíbō (G2346), thlîpsis (G2347), skýllō (G4660), anastatóō (G387), enochléō (G1776), diatarássō (G1298), ʼănaç (H598), bâhal (H926), bᵉhal (H927), ballâhâh (H1091), bâʻath (H1204), bᵉʻâthâh (H1205), dâlach (H1804), châmar (H2560), ṭôrach (H2960), mᵉhûwmâh (H4103), ʻâvâh (H5753), ʻâkar (H5916), ʻâmâl (H5999), ʻŏnîy (H6040), râgaz (H7264), rôgez (H7267), raʻ (H7451), râʻam (H7481)
“affliction”
“distress”
“adversary”
also renders hypenantíos (G5227), antídikos (G476), antíkeimai (G480), tsârar (H6887), rîyb (H7378), sâṭan (H7853)
“anguish”
also renders synochḗ (G4928), thlîpsis (G2347), stenochōría (G4730), mûwtsaq (H4164)
“adversity”
also renders raʻ (H7451)
“tribulation”
also renders thlîpsis (G2347)
Answers that weigh this word
Where it appears
73 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Kings 1:29 · HNcfsa
The king vowed and said, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
1 Samuel 1:6 · HNcfsc/Sp3fs
Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.
1 Samuel 10:19 · HC/Ncfpc/Sp2mp
But you have today rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, ‘No! Set a king over us!’ Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes and by your thousands.”
1 Samuel 26:24 · HNcfsa
Behold, as your life was respected today in my eyes, so let my life be respected in Yahweh’s eyes, and let him deliver me out of all oppression.”
2 Chronicles 15:6 · HNcfsa
They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.
2 Chronicles 20:9 · HR/Ncfsc/Sp1cp
‘If evil comes on us—the sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine—we will stand before this house, and before you (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’
2 Kings 19:3 HNcfsa2 Samuel 4:9 HNcfsaDaniel 12:1 HNcfsaDeuteronomy 31:17 HC/NcfpaDeuteronomy 31:21 HC/NcfpaGenesis 35:3 HNcfsc/Sp1csGenesis 42:21 HNcfscHabakkuk 3:16 HNcfsaIsaiah 8:22 HNcfsaIsaiah 30:6 HNcfsaIsaiah 33:2 HNcfsaIsaiah 37:3 HNcfsaIsaiah 46:7 HR/Ncfsc/Sp3msIsaiah 63:9 HNcfsc/Sp3mpIsaiah 65:16 HTd/NcfpaJudges 10:14 HNcfsc/Sp2mpJeremiah 4:31 HNcfsaJeremiah 6:24 HNcfsaJeremiah 14:8 HNcfsaJeremiah 15:11 HNcfsaJeremiah 16:19 HNcfsaJeremiah 30:7 HNcfsaJeremiah 49:24 HNcfsaJeremiah 50:43 HNcfsaJob 5:19 HNcfpaJob 27:9 HNcfsaJonah 2:2 HR/NcfsaNahum 1:7 HNcfsaNahum 1:9 HNcfsaNehemiah 9:27 HNcfsc/Sp3mpNehemiah 9:37 HC/R/NcfsaObadiah 1:12 HNcfsaObadiah 1:14 HNcfsaProverbs 1:27 HNcfsaProverbs 11:8 HR/NcfsaProverbs 12:13 HR/NcfsaProverbs 17:17 HR/NcfsaProverbs 21:23 HR/NcfpaProverbs 24:10 HNcfsaProverbs 25:19 HNcfsaPsalm 9:9 HNcfsaPsalm 10:1 HNcfsaPsalm 20:1 HNcfsaPsalm 22:11 HNcfsaPsalm 25:17 HNcfpcPsalm 25:22 HNcfpc/Sp3msPsalm 31:7 HR/NcfpcPsalm 34:6 HNcfpc/Sp3msPsalm 34:17 HNcfpc/Sp3mpPsalm 37:39 HNcfsaPsalm 46:1 HR/NcfpaPsalm 50:15 HNcfsaPsalm 54:7 HNcfsaPsalm 71:20 HNcfpa
Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Hebrew text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.