Parched
צְחִיחָהStrong’s H6707tsechichah (tse-chi-chah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tsechichah is the Hebrew word usually translated “parched land”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.”
Meaning
- Scorched land, parched, scorched
How it's translated
- a parched land 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
צְחִיחָה tsechichah · parched
scorched land, parched, scorched
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “parched” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
P'ARCHED, participle passive
Scorched; dried to extremity.
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.