Occurrences
Tsâmâʼ occurs 17 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (1), Deuteronomy (1), Judges (1), 2 Chronicles (1), Nehemiah (2), Psalms (2), Isaiah (3), Jeremiah (1), Lamentations (1), Ezekiel (1), Hosea (1), Amos (2)
- Exodus 17:3 — And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst (בַּצָּמָֽא)?
- Deuteronomy 28:48 — Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst (וּבְצָמָ֛א), and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
- Judges 15:18 — And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst (בַּצָּמָ֔א), and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
- 2 Chronicles 32:11 — Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst (וּבְצָמָ֖א), saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
- Nehemiah 9:15 — And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst (לִצְמָאָ֑ם), and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
- Nehemiah 9:20 — Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst (לִצְמָאָֽם).
- Psalms 69:21 — They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst (וְ֝לִצְמָאִ֗י) they gave me vinegar to drink.
- Psalms 104:11 — They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst (צְמָאָֽם).
- Isaiah 5:13 — Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst (צָמָֽא).
- Isaiah 41:17 — When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst (בַּצָּמָ֣א), I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
- Isaiah 50:2 — Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst (בַּצָּמָֽא).
- Jeremiah 48:18 — Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst (בַצָּמָ֔א); for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds.
- Lamentations 4:4 — The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst (בַּצָּמָ֑א): the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
- Ezekiel 19:13 — And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty (וְצָמָֽא) ground.
- Hosea 2:3 — Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst (בַּצָּמָֽא).
- Amos 8:11 — Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst (צָמָ֣א) for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
- Amos 8:13 — In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst (בַּצָּמָֽא).