Strong's Hebrew · H1226

בַּצֹּרֶת

batstsôreth · bats-tso'-reth

dearth, drought.

Definition

restraint (of rain), i.e. drought

Derivation

feminine intensive from H1219 (בָּצַר);

Appears 2 times in Scripture

Jeremiah 17:8

He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.

Jeremiah 14:1

This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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