# בַּצֹּרֶת (batsoret)

Israeli respelling: ba-tso-ret. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1226. 2 Old Testament occurrences.

restraint (of rain), i.e. drought

King James renderings: dearth, drought.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/batsoret-h1226

## Occurrences

- [Jeremiah 14:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/14/1) — The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
- [Jeremiah 17:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/17/8) — For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her…