Need
צֹ֫רֶךְStrong’s H6878tsorekh (tso-rekh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tsorekh is the Hebrew word usually translated “need your”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.”
Meaning
- Need
How it's translated
- need your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
צֹ֫רֶךְ tsorekh · need
need
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “need” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NEED, noun
[to be in want. The primary sense is to press.]
- Want; occasion for something; necessity; a state that requires supply or relief.“What further need have we of witnesses?” Matthew 26:65
- Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence.“I know how to abound and to suffer need” Philippians 4:12
All definitions and other forms of “need”
NEED, verb transitive
[ to compel]
To want; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
- “They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick” Matthew 9:12
NEED, verb intransitive
To be wanted; to be necessary.
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.