Strong’s H1226 · Hebrew
בַּצֹּרֶת
batstsôreth · bats-tso'-reth
Origin feminine intensive from בָּצַר (H1219);
Meaning restraint (of rain), i.e. drought
In the King James Version dearth, drought.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Jeremiah 14:1The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
- Jeremiah 17:8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.