Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6772
צָמָא
tsamatsaw-maw'
thirst
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tsâmâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6772is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6772
thirst (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: thirst(-y).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
tsama is rendered "thirst". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Three of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 17:3But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
Exodus 17:3בַּצָּמָֽא׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in twelve of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- by the thirst4
- with the thirst3
- for thirst their2
- a thirst1
- and by thirst1
- and for thirst my1
- and in thirst1
- and thirst1
- in the thirst1
- thirst1
- thirst their1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בַּצָּמָֽא׃4
- בַצָּמָ֔א1
- בַּצָּמָ֔א1
- בַּצָּמָ֣א1
- בַּצָּמָ֑א1
- וּבְצָמָ֛א1
- וּבְצָמָ֖א1
- וְ֝לִצְמָאִ֗י1
- וְצָמָֽא׃1
- לִצְמָאָ֑ם1
- לִצְמָאָֽם׃1
- צָמָ֣א1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular8HRd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular2HC/R/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HR/Ncmsc/Sp3mp
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HC/R/Ncmsc/Sp1bs
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcmsc/Sp3mp
Exodus
one use
But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
- בַּצָּמָֽא׃batzama'preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the thirst
Deuteronomy
one use
you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
- וּבְצָמָ֛אuvetzama'conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and in thirst
Judges
one use
And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
- בַּצָּמָ֔אbatzama'preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the thirst
2 Chronicles
one use
Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ‘The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria?’
- וּבְצָמָ֖אuvetzama'conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and by thirst
Nehemiah
two uses
In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land which You had sworn to give them.
- לִצְמָאָ֑םlitzmaampreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: for thirst their
You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.
- לִצְמָאָֽם׃litzmaampreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: for thirst their
Psalms
two uses
They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.
- וְ֝לִצְמָאִ֗יvelitzmaiconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and for thirst my
They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
- צְמָאָֽם׃tzemaamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: thirst their
Isaiah
three uses
Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
- צָמָֽא׃tzama'noun · masculine singulartagged: thirst
The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
- בַּצָּמָ֣אbatzama'preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the thirst
Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
- בַּצָּמָֽא׃batzama'preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the thirst
Jeremiah
one use
Come down from your glory; sit on parched ground, O daughter dwelling in Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you; he has destroyed your fortresses.
- בַצָּמָ֔אvatzama'preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the thirst
Lamentations
one use
The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
- בַּצָּמָ֑אbatzama'preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the thirst
Ezekiel
one use
Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
- וְצָמָֽא׃vetzama'conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and thirst
Hosea
one use
Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.
- בַּצָּמָֽא׃batzama'preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the thirst
Amos
two uses
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
- צָמָ֣אtzama'noun · masculine singulartagged: a thirst
In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.
- בַּצָּמָֽא׃batzama'preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the thirst
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.