יָבֵשׁ
yâbêsh · H3002 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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dry, dried
State in which objects are free from moisture
ExamplesNumbers 6:3 he shall abstain from wine and strong drink; he shall consume no vinegar, whether made from wine or strong drink, nor shall he drink any grape juice nor eat fresh or dried grapes.
Numbers 11:6 but now our appetite is gone. There is nothing at all to look at except this manna!”
Job 13:25 “Will You scare away a scattered leaf? Or will You pursue the dry chaff?
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נֶפֶשׁsoul, life 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- חָרֵב chârêb · H2720 · dry, desolate, waste
- חָרֵב (chârêb, H2720) means "desolate, dry, waste" and יָבֵשׁ (yâbêsh, H3002) "dried (away), dry"; both denote dryness and could substitute in contexts describing dry or withered conditions.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Dry002001001021
- יָבֵשׁ (adjectival form) describes something dried out or withered, as dry chaff (Job 13:25) and dried grapes distinguished from fresh ones (Numbers 6:3).
- Names of Locations003001010
- This entry carries no independent "Names of Locations" sense of its own; every genuine tagged occurrence of יָבֵשׁ (Numbers 11:6, Job 13:25, Isaiah 56:3, Ezekiel 17:24, 37:2) is the common adjective for "dry," not a place name. The domain is bundle-shared with the identically-spelled place name Jabesh(-Gilead) (יָבֵשׁ (Yâbêsh, H3003)). See יָבֵשׁ (Yâbêsh, H3003).
- Names of People003001007
- This entry carries no independent "Names of People" sense of its own; every genuine tagged occurrence is the common adjective for "dry," not a personal or group name. The domain is bundle-shared with the identically-spelled place name Jabesh(-Gilead) (יָבֵשׁ (Yâbêsh, H3003)), whose inhabitants are named collectively as "men of Jabesh." See יָבֵשׁ (Yâbêsh, H3003).
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3002. yabesh II. יָבֵשׁ verbal adjective or Participle dry, dried, so, masculine…
II. יָבֵשׁ verbal adjective or
Participle dry, dried, so, masculine singular absolute Nah 1:10 Nah 1:4t.; feminine singular יְבֵשָׁה Num 11:6; masculine plural (וִ)יבֵשִׁים Num 6:3; feminine plural יְבֵשׁוֺת Eze 37:2, Eze 37:4; —
1 dried, literal only יְבֵשִׁיס עֲנָבִים Num 6:3 dried grapes (P; opposed to ׳ְ לַחִים); figurative יְבֵשָׁה נַפְשֵׁנוּ Num 11:6 (JE) our soul (i.e. our appetite) is dried up, namely, for want of fresh, juicy meat.
2 dry, of chaff, קַשׁ Nah 1:10 in simile of Ninevites under impending judgment; compare in figure of Job, Job 13:25; of tree Eze 17:24 (figurative of Davidic house; opposed to לָ֑ךְ עֵץ), Eze 21:3 (in prediction of Judah's devastation by Babylon, opposed to id.); Isa 56:3 figurative of eunuch; of the bonesin Ezekiel's vision Eze 37:2, Eze 37:4.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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