# H6869 צָרָה

צָרָה (tsârâh), Strong’s H6869: tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival: KJV: adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble.. Occurs 73 times.

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*tsârâh* — tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival:

KJV: adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble.

Occurs 73 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- 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.

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 35:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=3) — 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…
- [Genesis 42:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/42?v=21) — They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul…
- [Deuteronomy 31:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/31?v=17) — Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them…
- [Deuteronomy 31:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/31?v=21) — It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness…
- [Judges 10:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/10?v=14) — Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”
- [1 Samuel 1:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/1?v=6) — Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
- [1 Samuel 10:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/10?v=19) — But you have today rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you…
- [1 Samuel 26:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/26?v=24) — Behold, as your life was respected today in my eyes, so let my life be respected in the LORD’s eyes, and let him…
- [2 Samuel 4:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/4?v=9) — David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As the LORD lives…
- [1 Kings 1:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/1?v=29) — The king vowed and said, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,