צֹ֫רֶךְ
need
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6878 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Chronicles 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
צרך (tsôrek) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “need.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. 2 Chronicles dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at 2 Chronicles 2:16. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6878 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Chronicles 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Much as thou shalt need 1×
- American Standard Version: Much as thou shalt need 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: You need 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Need 1×
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Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- need
Word origin
[ צֹ֫רֶךְ ] n.[m.] need (Aram.);—sf. 2 Ch 2:15
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to need
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
צוֹרֶךְ
- need, necessity. M. Kat. II, 4 לצ׳ המועד if required for use during the festival; לצ׳ המוכר if the seller is in need of money. Pes. 5ᵇ we do not say, הואיל והותרה … לצ׳ … שלא לצ׳ since lighting a fire is permitted (on the Holy Day) for the need of the day, it may also be permitted where it is not needed for the day. Y. Naz. III, beg. 54ᶜ הבערה לצ׳ יצאת the prohibition to start a fire on the Sabbath (Ex. XXXV, 3) is specified for a purpose (for interpretation). Sabb. 131ᵇ צ׳ גבוה needed for the altar (v. גָּבוֹהַּ). Bets. 21ᵇ עושה אדם כל צָרְכוֹ בפת man may use a loaf of bread for whatever he may need (not only for eating); Ber. 50ᵇ צָרְכָיו (pl.). Snh. 88ᵇ שלא שמשו כל צָרְכָן who had not attended their teachers sufficiently; Y. ib. I, 19ᶜ כצוֹרְכָן; a. v. fr.—Euphemisms: Y. Keth. V, 30ᵇ היתה עושה צוֹרְכָהּ באחרים she gratified her desire with other men; Gen. R. s. 52 צָרָכֶיהָ (pl.). Y. Ber. III, 6ᶜ אעשה צָרְכִי I will gratify my desire; a. fr.—Pl. צֳרָכִים, constr. צוֹרְכֵי, צָרְכֵי. Ber. 46ᵇ צ׳ סעודה the requirements of a meal. Sabb. XIX, 2 (133ᵃ, sq.) כל צ׳ מילה all preparations needed for circumcision. Shek. IV, 7 ימכרו לצ׳ עולות (Y. ed. לצְרִיכֵי) shall be sold for the purposes of (to buy with the money realized) burnt-offerings. Bets. 28ᵇ לכם לכל צָרְכֵיכֶם ‘for you’ (Ex. XII, 16), for all your needs of the day. Y. Ber. V, 9ᵇ bot. שואל צָרְכָיו וכ׳ inserts the prayer for his individual needs in the benediction ‘Hearer of Prayers’. Lev. R. s. 34, end (ref. to Is. LVIII, 13) מכאן … לתבוע צרכיו בשבת from this we learn that man must not pray for his individual wants on the Sabbath; a. fr.—Y. Ḥag. II, 78ᵃ top עשה צרכיו עמה had marital connection with her, v. supra. Nidd. IX, 1 עושה צרכיה urinated. Ib. 2 צָרְכֵיהֶן. Yalk. Job 927 (ref. to Job XLI, 7) סוגר כל חותמות הצרכים he (the Leviathan) closes all the seals of needs (all his own orifices of discharge, contrad. to כל חותמות המְצָרְכִים all the seals of those that have needs (causes their obstruction); a. fr. e.g. Exodus 35:3
צָרַךְ
- [to be narrow,] to need, want. Y. Dem. II, beg. 22ᵇ לא צָרְכוּ … ליתן וכ׳ the scholars had no need to describe them; צרכו … למנותן found it necessary to specify them; a. fr.
- to be in need, be forced. B. Kam. 50ᵇ נ׳ למכור וכ׳ he was obliged to sell his field; a. fr.—Euphem. נ׳ לנקביו (or sub. לנקביו) to have a human need, v. נֶקֶב. Ber. 23ᵃ. Ex. R. s. 9 בשעה שהוא נ׳ תפוש אותו surprise him when he is easing himself; a. fr.—לא נִצְרְכָה אלא it would not have been necessary (to mention it) were it not in order to indicate &c. (v. צְרִיךְ). B. Mets. 30ᵇ; a. fr.—Y. Ber. VII, 11ᵇ top לשני קטנים נצרכה it was necessary (to state the two seemingly contradictory opinions) for two kinds of minors (one sure, and one doubtful); Gen. R. s. 91.
- same, (with ל־) to be in need of, depend on. Taan. 22ᵇ an individual must not impose fasts upon himself, שמא יִצְטָרֵךְ וכ׳ lest he become dependent on men (become unable to work), and they will have no pity on him. Sabb. 118ᵃ עשה … ואל תִּצְטָרֵךְ וכ׳ rather make thy Sabbath a week-day (as regards festive meals) than be dependent on men; Pes. 112ᵃ. B. Bath. 110ᵃ, v. עֲבוֹדָה; a. fr.
- to have a need. Yalk. Job 927 המְצָרְכִים, v. צוֹרֶךְ.
- to cause to need, to declare bound, oblige. Taan. 23ᵇ ברוך … שלא ה׳ וכ׳ blessed be the Lord that he put you beyond the need of Abba Hilkiah’s prayer. Kidd. 25ᵃ והִצְרִיכָהּ ר׳ וכ׳ Rabbi decided that she must have another immersion; a. fr.
- to be needed; to be in need of, be forced. Men. 79ᵇ אם הוּצְרְכוּ הוּצְרָכוּ וכ׳ if they shall be needed (for the sacrifice intended), they shall be used; if not, they shall be otherwise employed; Keth. 106ᵇ; Shebu. 11ᵃ. Ib. תמידין שלא הוצרכו לצבור animals selected for daily offerings beyond the needed number. Yoma 67ᵃ מעולם לא ה׳ אדם לכך it never happened that the messenger sent with the Azazel needed to make use of the offer of food. Num. R. s. 7 לא הוצרכו שיעשיאום וכ׳ they had not to be forced &c., v. עָשָׂה; a. fr.
צְרַךְ
- , ch. same. Targ. Y. II, Gen. XVI, 5.—Y. B. Bath. VIII, 16ᵇ bot. צַרְכַת וזבנת וכ׳ she needed money and sold to her husband (the property which she had assigned to her brother). Y. Erub. V, beg. 22ᵇ [read:] צ׳ לך צחק לך לא צ׳ לך הפליג עליך he who needs thee may smile (assent) to thee (flatter thee), he who needs thee not, dares to wonder at thee (in disapproval); Y. Snh. XI, 30ᵇ top צריך לך שחק וכ׳; a. e.—Mostly pass. צְרִיךְ to need, be needed. Ib. תלת עשרה … דלא צ׳ ליה he spent thirteen years … without needing him. Taan. 20ᵇ לא צְרִיכְנָא האידנא now we do not need it. Yeb. 105ᵇ תא לא צְרִיכַת come back, she needs not (to be examined, or: thou needest not examine her). Ber. 13ᵇ תו לא צריכת more you need not do; a. fr.
- to be needed; to need. Targ. Y. I Gen. XVI, 5. Ib. XLVII, 12; a. fr.—Taan. 23ᵃ כי מִצְטְרִיךְ עלמא למטרא whenever the world needed rain. Ber. 9ᵃ א׳ למכתב וכ׳ it was necessary (in the Scriptural text) to write hazzeh. Ib. 13ᵃ והיו … למה לי א׳ וכ׳ that v’hayu (Deut. VI, 6) which is written, what is it for? It is needed because of the preceding sh’mʿa. Bets. 7ᵃ א׳ לאשמעינן it was necessary to let us understand distinctly. Bekh. 31ᵃ אִיצְטְרִיכָא ליה שעתא the time needed him, i.e. the scholars felt in need of his teaching. Ḥull. 38ᵃ איצטריכא ליה לאבא לאזוזי וכ׳ does Abba (do you) consider the shaking of the ears (of the animal) an indispensable symptom of vitality? Keth. 22ᵃ אלא כי א׳ קרא לכדרב הונא וכ׳ but that citation is needed for the rule which R. H. … deduced from it. Ib. 97ᵃ אִיצְטְרִיכוּ … למזבן וכ׳ he wanted money to buy oxen; לסוף לא איצטריכו ליה finally he found that he could do without it. Ber. 47ᵇ תרי איצטריכו two more persons were wanted (to make up the legal quorum); a. v. fr.—Gen. R. s. 91 אִיצְטַרְכִית למשאליה I felt the need of asking him; Y. Ber. VII, 11ᵇ אִצָּרְכַת לי sub. למשאליה, v. צְרִיךְ. e.g. Deuteronomy 6:6
- as preced. Hif. Gitt. 63ᵇ אַצְרְכָהּ … גט R. … decided that she required a letter of divorce.
צֹרֶךְ
- , v. צוֹרֶךְ, צוֹרְכָא.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
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