Dearth
בַּצָּרָהStrong’s H6869batstsarah (bats-tsa-rah)
Appears in 72 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Batstsarah is the Hebrew word usually translated “trouble”, “distress” and “distress my”. It appears in 72 verses of the Old Testament.
“And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.”
Meaning
- Death, destitution
- Straits, distress, trouble
- Vexer, rival wife
How it's translated
- trouble 26
- distress 12
- distress my 3
- and troubles 2
- distress their 2
- troubles 2
- troubles of 2
- in trouble 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 24
- Jeremiah 8
- Proverbs 7
- Isaiah 7
- 1 Samuel 3
- Genesis 2
21 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 10:11In contextAnd he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.
- Genesis 35:3And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
- Genesis 42:21And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
- Deuteronomy 31:17Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
- Deuteronomy 31:21And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
- Judges 10:14Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
All 72 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
בַּצָּרָה batstsarah · dearth
death, destitution
צָרָה tsarah · distress
straits, distress, trouble
צָרָה tsarah · vexer
vexer, rival wife
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dearth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DEARTH, noun
derth.
- Scarcity; as a dearth of corn.
- Want; need; famine;
- Barrenness; sterility; as a dearth of plot.
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.