To wither
יָבֵשׁStrong’s H3001yavesh (ya-vesh)
Appears in 52 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yavesh is the Hebrew word usually translated “it has dried up”, “dried up” and “it dries up”. It appears in 52 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.”
Meaning
- To make dry, wither, be dry, become dry, be dried up, be withered(Qal) · (Piel) to make dry, dry up · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- it has dried up 6
- he dried up 3
- it dries up 3
- it will wither 3
- they have dried up 3
- and it dried up 2
- i will dry up 2
- and they will dry up 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 9
- Psalms 6
- Joshua 5
- Job 5
- Jeremiah 5
- Ezekiel 5
15 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 11:17In contextWoe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
- Genesis 8:7And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
- Genesis 8:14And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
- Joshua 2:10For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
- Joshua 4:23For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
- Joshua 5:1And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
All 52 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
יָבֵשׁ yavesh · to wither
1) to make dry, wither, be dry, become dry, be dried up, be withered 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be dry, be dried up, be without moisture 1a2) to be dried up 1b) (Piel) to make dry, dry up 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to dry up, make dry 1c1a) to dry up (water) 1c1b) to make dry, wither 1c1c) to exhibit dryness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wither” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WITHER, verb intransitive
- To fade; to lose its native freshness; to become sapless; to dry.“It shall wither in all the leaves of her spring” Ezekiel 17:9
- To waste; to pine away; as animal bodies; as a withered hand. Matthew 12:10
- To lose or want animal moisture.
All definitions and other forms of “wither”
WITHER, verb transitive
- To cause to fade and become dry; as, the sun withereth the grass. James 1:11
- To cause to shrink, wrinkle and decay, for want of animal moisture.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.