Thirst
צָמָאStrong’s H6772tsama (tsa-ma)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsama is the Hebrew word usually translated “thirst”, “thirst their” and “thirst my”. It appears in 17 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
- Thirst
How it's translated
- by thirst 4
- with thirst 3
- for thirst their 2
- and in thirst 1
- and by thirst 1
- and for thirst my 1
- thirst their 1
- thirst 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Nehemiah 2
- Psalms 2
- Amos 2
- Exodus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 28:48Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
- 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?
- 2 Chronicles 32:11Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
- Nehemiah 9:15And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
- Nehemiah 9:20Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
- Psalms 69:21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Hebrew dictionary
צָמָא tsama · thirst
thirst
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.