Dryness
צִיָּהStrong’s H6723tsiyyah (tsiy-yah)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsiyyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “dry”, “dry region” and “drought”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.”
Meaning
- Dryness, drought, desert
How it's translated
- dry 9
- a dry region 2
- drought 1
- in the dry region 1
- in the dry regions 1
- and dry region 1
- a desert 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 4
- Isaiah 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Job 2
- Ezekiel 1
- Hosea 1
8 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 30:3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
- Psalms 63:1O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
- Psalms 78:17And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
- Psalms 105:41He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.
- Psalms 107:35He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
- Isaiah 35:1The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
Hebrew dictionary
צִיָּה tsiyyah · dryness
dryness, drought, desert
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dryness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DRYNESS, noun
- Destitution of moisture; want of water or other fluid; siccity; a aridity; aridness; as the dryness of a soil; dryness of the road.
- Want of rain; as dryness of weather.
- Want of juice or succulence; as dryness of the bones or fibers.
- Want of succulence or greenness; as the dryness of hay or corn.
All definitions
- Barrenness; jejuneness; want of ornament or pathos; want of that which enlivens and entertains; as the dryness of style or expression; the dryness of a subject.
- Want of feeling or sensibility in devotion; want of ardor; as dryness of spirit.
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.