Balsam
צֳרִיStrong’s H6875tseri (tse-ri)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tseri is the Hebrew word usually translated “balm”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.”
Meaning
- A kind of balsam, balm, salveas merchandise · as medicine
How it's translated
- balm 4
- and balm 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 3
- Genesis 2
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 43:11And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
- Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
- Jeremiah 46:11Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.
- Jeremiah 51:8Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
- Ezekiel 27:17Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
Hebrew dictionary
צֳרִי tseri · balsam
1) a kind of balsam, balm, salve 1a) as merchandise 1b) as medicine
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “balsam” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BAL'SAM, noun
[Latin balsamum.]
An oily, aromatic, resinous substance, flowing spontaneously or by incision, from certain plants. A (p.22)
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.