בַּצֹּרֶת

batsoret · drought

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1226 · appears 2 times in the Bible

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What it means

batsoret (בַּצֹּרֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “drought”.

Lack of rain.

How to say it

ba·tso·ret

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. A time without rain.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • drought ×1
  • droughts ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Jeremiah 14:1

    What came as the word of YHWH to Jeremiah concerning the matters of the droughts.

  • Jeremiah 17:8

    And he will be like a tree planted by the waters, and by the stream it sends out its roots; and it will not see when heat comes, and its leaf will be flourishing; and in the year of drought it will not be anxious, nor cease from bearing fruit.