tseri · balm

What it means

tseri (צְרִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “balm”.

A resin used as medicine; Gilead was famous for it.

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. A resin used as medicine.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 37:25

  Then they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted their eyes and looked, and look, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels carrying aromatic gum, balm, and ladanum, on their way to take it down to Egypt.

• Genesis 43:11

  Israel their father said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choicest products of the land in your containers and carry down to the man a gift: a little balm and a little honey, aromatic gum and ladanum, pistachios and almonds.

• Jeremiah 8:22

  Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the healing of the daughter of my people not come up?

• Jeremiah 46:11

  Go up to Gilead and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have multiplied remedies; there is no healing for you.

• Jeremiah 51:8

  Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed.

• Ezekiel 27:17

  Judah and the land of Israel, they were your traders; with wheat of Minnith, and panag, and honey, and oil, and balm they paid for your exchange.