Dry
יָבֵשׁStrong’s H3002yavesh (ya-vesh)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yavesh is the Hebrew word usually translated “dry” and “dried”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.”
Meaning
- Dry
- Dried
How it's translated
- dry 9
- and dried 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 4
- Numbers 2
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
- Lamentations 1
- Nahum 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 11:6But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
- Job 13:25Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
- Isaiah 56:3Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
- Lamentations 4:8Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
- Ezekiel 17:24And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.
- Ezekiel 20:47And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
Hebrew dictionary
יָבֵשׁ yavesh · dry
1) dry 2) dried
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dry” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DRY, adjective
[See the Verb.]
- Destitute of moisture; free from water or wetness; arid; not moist; as dry land; dry clothes.
- Not rainy; free from rain or mist; as dry weather; a dry March or April.
- Not juicy; free from juice, sap or aqueous matter; not green; as dry wood; dry stubble; dry hay; dry leaves.
- Without tears; as dry eyes; dry mourning.
All definitions and other forms of “dry”
- Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry
- Thirsty; craving drink.
- Barren; jejune; plain; unembellished; destitute of pathos, or of that which amuses and interests; as a dry style; a dry subject; a dry discussion.
- Severe; sarcastic; wiping; as a dry remark or repartee; a dry run.
- Severe; wiping; as a dry blow; a dry basting.
- dry goods, in commerce, cloths, stuffs, silks, laces, ribbons, etc., in distinction from groceries.
DRY, verb transitive
[G., to dry to wipe; Gr., Latin See dry The primary sense is to wipe, rub, scour.]
- To free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; originally by wiping, as to dry the eyes; to exsiccate.
- To deprive of moisture by evaporation or exhalation; as, the sun dries a cloth; wind dries the earth.
- To deprive of moisture by exposure to the sun or open air.
- To deprive of natural juice, sap or greenness; as, to dry hay or plants.
- To scorch or parch with thirst; with up.“Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst” Isaiah 5:13
- To deprive of water by draining; to drain; to exhaust; as, to dry a meadow.
DRY, verb intransitive
- To grow dry; to lose moisture; to become free from moisture or juice.
- To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; sometimes with up; as, the stream dries or dries up.
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.