צָמָאtsâmâʼ
thirst (Exodus 17:3; Psalms 69:22; Judges 15:18; Hosea 2:5; Amos 8:13)
Pronunciation: tsaw-maw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6772
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 17 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 17:3 But tormented by thirst, they continued to argue with Moses. “Why did you bring us out of Egypt? Are you trying to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”
- Deuteronomy 28:48 you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. You will be left hungry, thirsty, naked, and lacking in everything. The Lord will put an iron yoke on your neck, oppressing you harshly until he has destroyed you.
- Judges 15:18 Samson was now very thirsty, and he cried out to the Lord, “You have accomplished this great victory by the strength of your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of these pagans?”
- 2 Chronicles 32:11 Hezekiah has said, ‘The Lord our God will rescue us from the king of Assyria.’ Surely Hezekiah is misleading you, sentencing you to death by famine and thirst!
- Nehemiah 9:15 “You gave them bread from heaven when they were hungry and water from the rock when they were thirsty. You commanded them to go and take possession of the land you had sworn to give them.
- Nehemiah 9:20 You sent your good Spirit to instruct them, and you did not stop giving them manna from heaven or water for their thirst.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).