Dryness
צָיוֹןStrong’s H6724tsivon (tsi-von)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsivon is the Hebrew word usually translated “dry land”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.”
Meaning
- Dryness, parched land or ground
How it's translated
- in a dry land 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
צָיוֹן tsivon · dryness
dryness, parched land or ground
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.