Original Language Studio
Exodus 17:3
“And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H6770 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to thirst (literally or figuratively)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- (be a-, suffer) thirst(-y).
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּצְמָ֨א — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 10 times in the Hebrew Bible.Judges 4:19Judges 15:18Ruth 2:9Job 24:11Psalms 42:3
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read צָמֵא here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.