צָמָא
tsa.ma (H6772)
thirst
AI Word Study
The Hebrew word צָמָא (tsa.ma) is defined as "thirst". This word operates within the semantic domain of "Food & Drink", indicating that it is specifically related to the idea of wanting or needing to consume liquids. The term is used a total of 17 times in the Hebrew Bible, suggesting that it has a significant presence in the text and is likely used in a variety of contexts. The scarcity of information about its occurrences and usage means that its range of applications is somewhat unclear, but it may be related to physical or spiritual dehydration. As a simple yet fundamental human experience, thirst is likely a key aspect of the human experience in the context of the Hebrew Bible. The significance of this word will depend on the specific instances in which it is used.
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The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”
therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
Doesn’t Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, ‘Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?’
and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.
You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.
They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.
Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.
“You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you. He has destroyed your strongholds.
The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask bread, and no one breaks it for them.
Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing Yahweh’s words.
In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst.