Thirsty
צָמֵאStrong’s H6771tsame (tsa-me)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsame is the Hebrew word usually translated “thirsty”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:”
Meaning
- Thirsty
How it's translated
- thirsty 6
- the thirsty 2
- and thirsty 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 5
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 17:29And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
- Psalms 107:5Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
- Proverbs 25:21If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
- Isaiah 21:14The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
- Isaiah 29:8It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
- Isaiah 32:6For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Hebrew dictionary
צָמֵא tsame · thirsty
thirsty
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “thirsty” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THIRST'Y, adjective
[from thirst.]
Feeling a painful sensation of the throat or fauces for want of drink.
- “Give me a little water, for I am thirsty” Judges 4:19“I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink” Matthew 25:42
- Very dry; having no moisture; parched.“The thirsty land shall become springs of water” Isaiah 35:7
- Having a vehement desire of any thing; as in blood-thirsty.
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.