{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H6869",
  "lemma": "צָרָה",
  "transliteration": "tsârâh",
  "definition": "tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival:",
  "kjv": "adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble.",
  "occurrences": 73,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "בַּצָּרָה n.f. dearth, destitution",
    "צָרָה n.f",
    "צָרָה 72 n.f. id. [r.dz.ac] straits, distress",
    "צָרָה n.f",
    "[צָרָה] n.f. vexer, rival-wife;—sf. 1 S 1:6."
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 35:3",
      "text": "Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 42:21",
      "text": "They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/42?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 31:17",
      "text": "Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/31?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 31:21",
      "text": "It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/31?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 10:14",
      "text": "Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/10?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 1:6",
      "text": "Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because the LORD had shut up her womb.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/1?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 10:19",
      "text": "But you have today rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/10?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 26:24",
      "text": "Behold, as your life was respected today in my eyes, so let my life be respected in the LORD’s eyes, and let him…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/26?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 4:9",
      "text": "David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As the LORD lives…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/4?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 1:29",
      "text": "The king vowed and said, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/1?v=29"
    }
  ],
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