Lexical Definition

‎צָרָה‎ tsârâh (tsaw-raw') dearth ^H:N-F
feminine of ‎צַר‎

adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble.

• tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble)
• transitively, a female rival:

1) straits, distress, trouble
2) vexer, rival wife

See Greek: ἀπορία · θλῖψις · στεναγμός

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎צָרָה‎₇₂ noun feminine id.; — absolute ‎׳‎‎צ‎ 1Sam 26:24 +, ‎צָרָתָה‎ Ps 120:1 (Ges^{«GKC:90g»§ 90g}); construct ‎צָרַת‎ Gen 42:21 suffix ‎צָרָתִי‎ Gen 35:3 +, ‎צָרַתְכֶם‎ Judg 10:14, etc.; plural ‎צָרוֺת‎ absolute Isa 65:16 +; suffix ‎צָרֹתֵיכֶם‎ 1Sam 10:19, etc.; — straits, distress, Gen 42:21 (E), 1Sam 26:24; 2Sam 4:9; 1Kgs 1:29; Isa 8:22; Job 5:19; Job 27:9 especially Psalms (24 t.), e.g. Job 22:12; Job 25:17 (see ‎רחב‎), vJob 25:22; Job 31:8; Job 34:17; Job 34:18 specifically of travail, ‎צָרָה וַחֲבָלִים‎ Jer 49:24 (simile), compare Jer 4:31 (Gie ‎צְוָחָה‎, after ᵐ5); ‎צָרַת נַפְשׁוֺ‎ Gen 42:21 (E); ‎בְּיוֺם צָרָתִי‎ Gen 35:3 (E), Ps 77:3*; Ps 86:7, compare 2Kgs 19:3 = Isa 37:3; Ps 20:2*; Ps 50:15; Prov 24:10; Prov 25:19; Jer 16:19; Obad 1:12; Obad 1:14; Nah 1:7; Hab 3:16, ‎וּמְצוּקָה‎ ‎׳‎‎יוֺם צ‎ Zeph 1:15 ‎בְּעֵתצָֿרַתְכֶם‎ Judg 10:14, compare Neh 9:27; Ps 37:39; Isa 33:2; Jer 14:8; Jer 15:11; Jer 30:7; Dan 12:1 also ‎בַּצָּרָה‎ Ps 81:8*, ‎בְּצָרָה‎ Ps 91:15; Neh 9:37, ‎בְּצָדוֺת‎ Ps 46:2*, etc.; ‎רָעוֺת וְצָרוֺת‎ Deut 31:17; Deut 31:21 compare 1Sam 10:19; Ps 71:20, ‎צָרָה וְצוּקָה‎ Prov 1:27, ‎׳‎‎וְצ‎ ‎׳‎‎אֶרֶץ צ‎ Isa 30:6 with ‎ל‎ (poetry), ‎בַּצָּרָ֫תָה לִי‎ Ps 120:1 in my distress, ‎מִצָּרָה לִי‎ Jonah 2:3*. — ‎צָרָה‎ Zech 10:11, read ‎מִצְרַיִם‎ [or ‎מָצוֺר‎] We Now GASm; ‎צֹ֫רָה‎ Klo^{ThLz, 1879, 566} Sta^{ZAW i (1881), 22}; Ps 9:10*; Ps 10:1 see ‎בַּצָּרָה‎.

II. [‎צָרָה‎] noun feminine vexer, rival-wife (see references below √; also Eccl 37:11); — suffix ‎צָרָתָהּ‎ 1Sam 1:6.

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