יַבָּשָׁה
yabbâshâh · H3004 · Hebrew · 14 occurrences
Meanings
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dry ground
Earth not covered by water
ExamplesGenesis 1:9 Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.
Genesis 1:10 And God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of the waters He called “seas”; and God saw that it was good.
Exodus 4:9 “But if they will not believe even these two signs nor pay attention to what you say, then you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground; and the water which you take from the Nile will turn into blood on the dry ground.”
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רָאָהto see 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
11 occurrences in 4 groups
- בin/on/with 12
- אֵלto, toward 4
- לto/for 4
- עַלon, upon, over, against 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
- צִיָּה tsîyâh · H6723 · drought, dry land, desert
- יַבָּשָׁה (yabbâshâh, H3004) means "dry (ground, land)" and צִיָּה (tsîyâh, H6723) means "barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness"; both overlap around dryness and land, and both can refer to dry land or a dry place.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ξηρός xērós · G3584 · dry, withered, paralyzed
- Greek ξηρός (xēros) serves as the direct translation equivalent of Hebrew יַבָּשָׁה (yabbāšâ) for 'dry ground/land,' representing the core lexical correspondence across Hebrew Scripture and its Greek translation tradition.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Dry002001001021
- יַבָּשָׁה names dry ground or dry land, the exposed earth as distinguished from the sea, as at creation and at the crossing of the Red Sea (Genesis 1:9-10, Exodus 14:16, 22).
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3004. yabbashah יַבָּשָׁה noun feminine dry land, dry ground (Sabean יבסם, opposed to…
יַבָּשָׁה noun feminine dry land, dry ground (Sabean יבסם, opposed to בחרם sea, DHM in MV; Palmyrene יבשא (dry) land VogNo. 79) — always absolute singular יַבָּשָׁה: Exo 4:9 (J); of dry ground as path of Israel through Red Sea Exo 14:16, Exo 14:22, Exo 14:29; Exo 15:19 (all P), Neh 9:11; Psa 66:6; through Jordan Jos 4:22 (D); of dry land, opposed to sea, at creation Gen 1:9-10, (P); compare Jon 1:9; specifically of shore of sea Jon 1:13; Jonah 2:11; figurative of needy Israel, to be refreshed by ׳יs spirit Isa 44:3 (|| צָמֵא).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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