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# צָמֵא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6771

**thirsty** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

thirsty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6771/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָמֵא²: adj. thirsty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6771/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. thirsty;—abs. צ׳ Is 21:14 +; fs. צְמֵאָה Dt 29:18; pl. צְמֵאִים ψ 107:5;—thirsty, usually + (or ‖) רָעֵב: 2 S 17:29; Pr 25:21 ψ 107:5, as subst. thirsty one Is 29:8; 32:6; so also 21:14, and (fig. of thirst for י׳’s favour) 55:1; צָמֵא 44:3 = thirsty place (Gunkl.c. proposes צְמֵאָה); הָרָוָה אֶת־הַצְּמֵאָה Dt 29:18 the watered (plant, herbage) with the thirsty, fig. of entire people.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] thirsty (2); thirsty (2); \[ground\] (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 107:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.5/#tree)

רְעֵבִ֥ים גַּם־צְמֵאִ֑ים נַ֝פְשָׁ֗ם בָּהֶ֥ם תִּתְעַטָּֽף׃

*Word for word:* hungry also thirsty life their in them it.was.fainting.away

*JPS 1917:* Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

[Proverbs 25:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.21/#tree)

אִם־רָעֵ֣ב שֹׂ֭נַאֲךָ הַאֲכִלֵ֣הוּ לָ֑חֶם וְאִם־צָ֝מֵ֗א הַשְׁקֵ֥הוּ מָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* if \[is\].hungry \[one who\].hates.you give him.to.eat food and if \[he.is\].thirsty give him.to.drink water

*JPS 1917:* If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6771.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6771/): 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).