1226. batstsoreth

Lexicon

batstsoreth: Drought, Famine

Original Word: בַּצֹּרֶת
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: batstsoreth
Pronunciation: baht-tso-reth
Phonetic Spelling: (bats-tso'-reth)
KJV: dearth, drought
NASB: drought
Word Origin: [feminine intensive from H1219 (בָּצַר - fortified)]

1. restraint
2. (of rain) drought

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

dearth, drought

Feminine intensive from batsar; restraint (of rain), i.e. Drought -- dearth, drought.

see HEBREW batsar

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from batsar
Definition
a dearth
NASB Translation
drought (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

בַּצֹּרֶת noun feminine dearth (compare following), ׳שְׁנַת בּ Jeremiah 17:8.

בַּצָּרָה noun feminine dearth, destitution (i.e. diminution, compare PS⁵⁷²; see also verb בצר ᵑ7 Proverbs 14:28 people reduced) — dearth (= בצרת) ׳עִתּוֺת בּ Psalm 9:10; Psalm 10:1; plural בַּצָּרוֺת Jeremiah 14:1.

Forms and Transliterations

בַּצֹּ֙רֶת֙ בצרת הַבַּצָּרֽוֹת׃ הבצרות׃ baṣ·ṣō·reṯ baṣṣōreṯ batzTzoret hab·baṣ·ṣā·rō·wṯ habbaṣṣārōwṯ habbatztzaRot

Englishman's Concordance

Jeremiah 14:1
HEB: עַל־ דִּבְרֵ֖י הַבַּצָּרֽוֹת׃
KJV: concerning the dearth.
INT: in regard the dearth

Jeremiah 17:8
HEB: רַֽעֲנָ֑ן וּבִשְׁנַ֤ת בַּצֹּ֙רֶת֙ לֹ֣א יִדְאָ֔ג
NAS: in a year of drought Nor
KJV: in the year of drought, neither shall cease
INT: will be green A year of drought Nor will not be anxious

2 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 1226
2 Occurrences

baṣ·ṣō·reṯ — 1 Occ.
hab·baṣ·ṣā·rō·wṯ — 1 Occ.