זָרָא
zara · loathsome thing
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2214 · appears 1 time in the Bible
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zara (זָרָא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “loathsome thing”.
Something that causes disgust. It is found only in Numbers 11:20.
How to say it
za·ra
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
- Something that causes nausea and disgust.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Related words
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Numbers 11:20
but a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have despised YHWH who is among you and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we ever come out of Egypt?”’”