Strong’s H6869 · Hebrew
צָרָה
tsârâh · tsaw-raw'
Origin feminine of צַר (H6862);
Meaning tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival:
In the King James Version adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble.
In 72 verses of the King James Version
1–50 of 72
- Genesis 35:3And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
- Genesis 42:21And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
- Deuteronomy 31:17Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
- Deuteronomy 31:21And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
- Judges 10:14Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
- 1 Samuel 1:6And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
- 1 Samuel 10:19And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.
- 1 Samuel 26:24And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.
- 2 Samuel 4:9And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
- 1 Kings 1:29And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress,
- 2 Kings 19:3And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
- 2 Chronicles 15:6And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
- 2 Chronicles 20:9If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
- Nehemiah 9:27Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.
- Nehemiah 9:37And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
- Job 5:19He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
- Job 27:9Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
- Psalms 9:9The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
- Psalms 10:1Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
- Psalms 20:1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
- Psalms 22:11Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
- Psalms 25:17The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.
- Psalms 25:22Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.
- Psalms 31:7I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
- Psalms 34:6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
- Psalms 34:17The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
- Psalms 37:39But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
- Psalms 46:1To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
- Psalms 50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
- Psalms 54:7For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies.
- Psalms 71:20Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
- Psalms 77:2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
- Psalms 78:49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
- Psalms 81:7Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
- Psalms 86:7In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.
- Psalms 91:15He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
- Psalms 116:3The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
- Psalms 120:1A Song of degrees. In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
- Psalms 138:7Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
- Psalms 142:2I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
- Psalms 143:11Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name’s sake: for thy righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.
- Proverbs 1:27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
- Proverbs 11:8The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.
- Proverbs 12:13The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
- Proverbs 17:17A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
- Proverbs 21:23Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
- Proverbs 24:10If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
- Proverbs 25:19Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
- Isaiah 8:22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
- Isaiah 30:6The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
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.