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# צָרָה

Biblical Hebrew

**vexer** — 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

vexer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָרָה³: n.f. vexer, rival-wife [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. vexer, rival-wife (v. reff. sub √; also Ecclus 37:11);—sf. צָרָתָהּ 1 S 1:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 1:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.6/#tree)

וְכִֽעֲסַ֤תָּה צָֽרָתָהּ֙ גַּם־כַּ֔עַס בַּעֲב֖וּר הַרְּעִמָ֑הּ כִּֽי־סָגַ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה בְּעַ֥ד רַחְמָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and she provoked.her rival her also provocation in order to disconcert.her (dm) he.had.closed Yahweh behind womb her

*JPS 1917:* And her rival vexed her sore, to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e6_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d4/): 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).