tsama · thirst

What it means

tsama (צָמָא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “thirst”.

How to say it

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. The urgent need for water, which can kill in the wilderness.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• thirst ×16
• thirsty ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1
• Amos×2

• Exodus 17:3

  The people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why is it you brought us up from Egypt to kill me and my sons and my livestock with thirst?”

• Deuteronomy 28:48

  you will serve your enemies, whom YHWH will send against you, in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in lack of everything; and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.

• Judges 15:18

  And he became very thirsty, and he called to YHWH and said, “You have given into the hand of your servant this great salvation, and now shall I die of thirst and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?”

• 2 Chronicles 32:11

  Is not Hezekiah inciting you to give you over to die by hunger and by thirst, saying, ‘YHWH our Elohim will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria’?

• Nehemiah 9:15

  And bread from the heavens you gave them for their hunger, and water from the crag you brought out for them for their thirst; and you told them to go in to possess the land for which you had lifted up your hand to give it to them.

• Nehemiah 9:20

  And your good spirit you gave to give them understanding, and your manna you did not withhold from their mouth, and water you gave them for their thirst.

• Psalms 69:21

  And they put in my food poison, and for my thirst they gave me to drink sour wine.

• Psalms 104:11

  They give drink to every animal of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

• Isaiah 5:13

  Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge; and its glory are men of hunger, and its multitude parched with thirst.

• Isaiah 41:17

  The afflicted and the needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue with thirst is parched; I, YHWH, will answer them; I, the Elohim of Israel, will not abandon them.

• Isaiah 50:2

  Why did I come, and there was no one; I called, and there was no one to answer? Is my hand really too short to ransom? Or is there no power in me to deliver? Look, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink for lack of water, and die of thirst.

• Jeremiah 48:18

  Come down from glory and sit in thirst, you who dwell, daughter of Dibon; for the devastator of Moab has come up against you; he has destroyed your strongholds.

• Lamentations 4:4

  The tongue of the nursing infant clings to its palate from thirst; little children ask for bread; there is no one to break it for them.

• Ezekiel 19:13

  And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a land dry and thirsty.

• Hosea 2:3

  or else I will strip her naked and set her out as on the day she was born, and make her like the wilderness, and leave her like a land that is dry, and kill her with thirst.

• Amos 8:11

  Look, days are coming, declares Adonai YHWH, when I will send a famine on the land; not a famine for bread, and not a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of YHWH.

• Amos 8:13

  On that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint from thirst.