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נָשַׁת

nâshath · H5405 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to become dry or dry up

    The process by which a body of water or place once covered with moisture dries up through evaporation or draining, making settled life impossible for land if it persists

    Examples

    Isaiah 19:5 The waters from the sea will dry up, And the river will be parched and dry.

  2. to be parched

    Process by which objects containing liquid essential to their existence lose these liquids due to some external or internal cause

    Examples

    Isaiah 41:17 “The poor and needy are seeking water, but there is none, And their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them Myself; As the God of Israel I will not abandon them.

  3. to dry up > to fail

    Process by which a quality is gradually reduced in intensity, as a liquid that slowly dries up

    Examples

    Jeremiah 51:30 The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting, They stay in the strongholds; Their strength is exhausted, They are becoming like women; Their homes are set on fire, The bars of her gates are broken.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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Who or what does itSubject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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 2 words
כָּהָה kâhâh · H3543 · to falter, to grow faint, (one's) courage fails
Both terms share the sense "fail." One has a much broader semantic range beyond this — darken, dim, faint, restrain — while the other is glossed simply as "fail," so their shared sense is a narrower slice of the broader term's range.
קָמַל qâmal · H7060 · to wilt, to wither away
Both words denote processes of failing, withering and drying, a shared sense of diminishment or decay. The renderings "fail" and "wither" describe closely related physical or material decline.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Dry002001001021
The word describes failing or drying up, as waters fail from a lake and a stream dries up and is parched (Job 14:11), tying the word to the depletion of moisture.
Lax002001003012
The word's failing sense also ties it to a general diminishing or giving out of strength, a broader weakening sense than the literal drying-up citations.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5405. nashath נָשַׁת verb be dry, parched; — Qal Perfect3feminine singular נָשָׁ֑תָּה…
H5405. nashath
נָשַׁת verb be dry, parched; —
Qal Perfect3feminine singular נָשָׁ֑תָּה בַּצָּמָא לְשׁוֺנָם Isa 41:17 (on dagesh forte affect. see Ges§ 20i); also figurative גְבוּרָתָם נָָֽשְׁתָה Jer 51:30, their might is dry, i.e. fails.
Niph`al Perfect3plural consecutive מֵהַיָּ֑ם וְנִשְּׁתומַֿיִם Isa 19:5 and water shall be dried up from the sea; compare Imperfect מַיּם יַנָָּֽתְשׁוּ Jer 18:14, where read probably יִנָָּֽשְׁחוּ (Gf Gie and others).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Dry2 occurrencesLax1 occurrence

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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