To thirst
צָמֵאStrong’s H6770tsame (tsa-me)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsame is the Hebrew word usually translated “it was thirsty”, “am thirsty” and “was thirsty”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”
Meaning
- (Qal) to be thirsty
How it's translated
- and it was thirsty 1
- i am thirsty 1
- and he was thirsty 1
- and you will be thirsty 1
- and they were thirsty 1
- it thirsts 1
- it is thirsty 1
- they were thirsty 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Judges 2
- Psalms 2
- Exodus 1
- Ruth 1
- Job 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 4:19And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
- Judges 15:18And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
- Ruth 2:9Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
- Job 24:11Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
- Psalms 42:2My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
- Psalms 63:1O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Hebrew dictionary
צָמֵא tsame · to thirst
(Qal) to be thirsty
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “thirst” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THIRST, noun
thurst. [Latin torreo.]
- A painful sensation of the throat or fauces, occasioned by the want of drink.“Wherefore is it that thou hast brought us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?” Exodus 17:3
- A vehement desire of drink. Psalms 104:11
- A want and eager desire after any thing.
- Dryness; drouth.
All definitions and other forms of “thirst”
THIRST, verb intransitive
thurst.
- To experience a painful sensation of the throat or fauces for want of drink.“The people thirsted there for water” Exodus 17:3
- To have a vehement desire for any thing.“My soul thirsteth for the living God” Psalms 42:2
THIRST, verb intransitive
To want to drink; as, to thirst blood. [Not English.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.