Words

צָרָה H6869

Home gloss

strait

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

distress

Note

From צרר "be narrow": the tight place (35:3; 42:21; Jonah 2:3)

Rulings

39

Declared to share English with

• H4712 — one root: strait (133a)

Occurrences (3)

Genesis 35

• 35:3 and let us rise and go up to Bethel, and let me make there an altar to the El who answered me in the day of my strait and was with me in the way that I went."

Genesis 42

• 42:21 And they said, a man to his brother, "Indeed, liable are we concerning our brother, in that we saw the strait of his soul when he begged favor of us, and we did not hear. Therefore this strait has come to us."
• 42:21 And they said, a man to his brother, "Indeed, liable are we concerning our brother, in that we saw the strait of his soul when he begged favor of us, and we did not hear. Therefore this strait has come to us."