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# בַּצֹּרֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1226

**dearth** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

dearth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1226/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בַּצֹּרֶת: n.f. dearth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1226/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. dearth (cf. foll.), שְׁנַת בּ׳ Je 17:8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of drought (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 17:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.17.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.17.8/#tree)

וְהָיָ֞ה כְּעֵ֣ץ ׀ שָׁת֣וּל עַל־מַ֗יִם וְעַל־יוּבַל֙ יְשַׁלַּ֣ח שָֽׁרָשָׁ֔יו וְלֹ֤א יִרְאֶה֙ כִּֽי־יָבֹ֣א חֹ֔ם וְהָיָ֥ה עָלֵ֖הוּ רַֽעֲנָ֑ן וּבִשְׁנַ֤ת בַּצֹּ֙רֶת֙ לֹ֣א יִדְאָ֔ג וְלֹ֥א יָמִ֖ישׁ מֵעֲשׂ֥וֹת פֶּֽרִי׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.be like a.tree planted at water and.\[which\] at a.stream it.sends.out roots its and not it.will.see (dm) it.will.come heat and it.will.be leafage its luxuriant and in a.year of.drought not it.will.be.anxious and not it.will.cease from producing fruit

*JPS 1917:* For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but its foliage shall be luxuriant; and shall not be anxious in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1226.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1226/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).