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Strong's H6869 צָרָה (tsarah)

Tsarah means “trouble” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H6869
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 72
Books 21

Strong's H6869 Quick Answer

Strong's H6869 צָּרָה (tsarah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tsarah (tsaw-raw') n-f. 1. tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble) 2. transitively, a female rival It has 72 linked Bible usages across 21 books. Visible English usage signals include trouble, affliction, adversity, distress, and adversary. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
tsarah (tsaw-raw') n-f. 1. tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble) 2. transitively, a female rival
Usage
72 linked usages
Books
21 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
trouble, affliction, adversity, distress, and adversary

Meaning and Definition

tsarah (tsaw-raw') n-f. 1. tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble) 2. transitively, a female rival [feminine of H6862] KJV: adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble. Root(s): H6862

Original Word
צָּרָה
Transliteration
tsarah
Derivation
First root strongs: 6862
Morphology
noun fem

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6869. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H6869 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tsarah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

trouble 2 Kings 19:3 35× affliction 2 Chronicles 20:9 adversity 2 Samuel 4:9 distress Genesis 35:3 adversary 1 Samuel 1:6

How Strong's H6869 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 72 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H6869 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H6869 in the Old Testament

72 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 35:3 KJV

And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

Genesis 42:21 KJV

And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

Deuteronomy 31:17 KJV

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

Usage Excerpts

First 72 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6869.

Genesis 35:3 Old Testament, KJV
And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
Genesis 42:21 Old Testament, KJV
And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Deuteronomy 31:17 Old Testament, KJV
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
Deuteronomy 31:21 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
Judges 10:14 Old Testament, KJV
Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
1 Samuel 1:6 Old Testament, KJV
And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
1 Samuel 10:19 Old Testament, KJV
And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.
1 Samuel 26:24 Old Testament, KJV
And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.
2 Samuel 4:9 Old Testament, KJV
And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
1 Kings 1:29 Old Testament, KJV
And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress,
2 Kings 19:3 Old Testament, KJV
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
2 Chronicles 15:6 Old Testament, KJV
And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
2 Chronicles 20:9 Old Testament, KJV
If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
Nehemiah 9:27 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.
Nehemiah 9:37 Old Testament, KJV
And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
Job 5:19 Old Testament, KJV
He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
Job 27:9 Old Testament, KJV
Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
Psalms 9:9 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
Psalms 10:1 Old Testament, KJV
Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
Psalms 20:1 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
Psalms 22:11 Old Testament, KJV
Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
Psalms 25:17 Old Testament, KJV
The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.
Psalms 25:22 Old Testament, KJV
Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.
Psalms 31:7 Old Testament, KJV
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
Psalms 34:6 Old Testament, KJV
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalms 34:17 Old Testament, KJV
The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
Psalms 37:39 Old Testament, KJV
But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
Psalms 46:1 Old Testament, KJV
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Psalms 50:15 Old Testament, KJV
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Psalms 54:7 Old Testament, KJV
For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies.
Psalms 71:20 Old Testament, KJV
Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
Psalms 77:2 Old Testament, KJV
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
Psalms 78:49 Old Testament, KJV
He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
Psalms 81:7 Old Testament, KJV
Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
Psalms 86:7 Old Testament, KJV
In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.
Psalms 91:15 Old Testament, KJV
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
Psalms 116:3 Old Testament, KJV
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 120:1 Old Testament, KJV
In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
Psalms 138:7 Old Testament, KJV
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
Psalms 142:2 Old Testament, KJV
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
Psalms 143:11 Old Testament, KJV
Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
Proverbs 1:27 Old Testament, KJV
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Proverbs 11:8 Old Testament, KJV
The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.
Proverbs 12:13 Old Testament, KJV
The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
Proverbs 17:17 Old Testament, KJV
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 21:23 Old Testament, KJV
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Proverbs 24:10 Old Testament, KJV
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
Proverbs 25:19 Old Testament, KJV
Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
Isaiah 8:22 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
Isaiah 30:6 Old Testament, KJV
The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
Isaiah 33:2 Old Testament, KJV
O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
Isaiah 37:3 Old Testament, KJV
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
Isaiah 46:7 Old Testament, KJV
They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
Isaiah 63:9 Old Testament, KJV
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Isaiah 65:16 Old Testament, KJV
That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.
Jeremiah 4:31 Old Testament, KJV
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
Jeremiah 6:24 Old Testament, KJV
We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Jeremiah 14:8 Old Testament, KJV
O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
Jeremiah 15:11 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
Jeremiah 16:19 Old Testament, KJV
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
Jeremiah 30:7 Old Testament, KJV
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
Jeremiah 49:24 Old Testament, KJV
Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
Jeremiah 50:43 Old Testament, KJV
The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
Daniel 12:1 Old Testament, KJV
And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Obadiah 1:12 Old Testament, KJV
But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
Obadiah 1:14 Old Testament, KJV
Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.
Jonah 2:2 Old Testament, KJV
And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
Nahum 1:7 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
Nahum 1:9 Old Testament, KJV
What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
Habakkuk 3:16 Old Testament, KJV
When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
Zephaniah 1:15 Old Testament, KJV
That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
Zechariah 10:11 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6869, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 2 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 24 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 7 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 7 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 8 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Old Testament
Obadiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Jonah 1 usage, Old Testament
Nahum 2 usages, Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H6869 FAQ

What does tsarah (צָרָה) mean?

Tsarah (Strong's H6869) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "trouble". tsarah (tsaw-raw') n-f. 1. tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble) 2. transitively, a female rival

How many times is tsarah (צָרָה) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 72 linked usages for Strong's H6869 across 21 books.

Where can I study tsarah (צָרָה) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6869 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate tsarah (צָרָה)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as trouble, affliction, adversity, distress, and adversary. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.