Word

צִיָּה

tsîyâh · H6723 · Hebrew · 16 occurrences

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Meanings

drought

A state in which there is a lack of water or rainfall, resulting in a lack of vegetation and other desert-like conditions

Examples
Job 24:19 “Dryness and heat snatch away the snow waters, As Sheol snatches those who have sinned.
dry land or desert

Land in which there is a lack of water or rainfall, resulting in a lack of vegetation and other desert-like conditions, associated with thirst and hardship

Examples
Job 30:3 “From poverty and famine they are gaunt, They who gnaw at the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,
Psalm 63:1 God, You are my God; I shall be watching for You; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and exhausted land where there is no water.
Psalm 78:17 Yet they still continued to sin against Him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.

How it’s used In 4 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

2 occurrences in 2 groups

גָּזַלto seize 1
שׂוּשׂto rejoice 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

עָרַקto gnaw 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

בin/on/with 4

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 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 2 words

יַבֶּשֶׁת yabbesheth · H3006 · dry ground: Both words denote dry terrain or aridity: צִיָּה (tsîyâh, H6723) means "dry land," and the other word means "barren, drought, dry (land, place)"; they overlap in referring to dryness in landscape contexts.
יַבָּשָׁה yabbâshâh · H3004 · dry ground: יַבָּשָׁה (yabbâshâh, H3004) means "dry (ground, land)," and צִיָּה (tsîyâh, H6723) means "barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness"; they overlap around dryness and land-related contexts, and both can refer to dry land or a dry place.

In the other Testament 1 word

ἄνυδρος ánydros · G504 · waterless, dry: Greek ἄνυδρος specifically denotes the absence of water ('waterless'), while Hebrew צִיָּה encompasses the broader semantic field of dryness, drought, and barren/desolate places; the terms overlap in contexts describing waterless/dry terrain.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Dry002001001021: צִיָּה means dryness or drought, as of the dryness and heat that snatch away the snow waters in Job 24:19, and the dryness the psalmist has seen the LORD's power and glory in the midst of in Psalm 63:2.
Landscapes001002004: The word also denotes a dry or desert region, as of the dry ground the poor gnaw at by night in Job 30:3, and the desert Israel rebels against the LORD in during the wilderness wandering in Psalm 78:17.

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

צִיָּהtsîyâh · H6723צִיִּי tsîyîy · H6728 · ship, wild animals · 6×צִיּוּן tsîyûwn · H6725 · guidepost, marker, sign · 3×צִיוֹן tsîyôwn · H6724 · dry land, desert · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6723. tsiyyah צִיָּה noun feminine dryness, drought; — absolute ׳צ Hos 2:5+; plural…

H6723. tsiyyah
צִיָּה noun feminine dryness, drought; — absolute ׳צ Hos 2:5+; plural צִיּוֺת Psa 105:41; — drought Job 24:19 (|| חֹם); elsewhere of land (often || עְַרָבָה מִדְבָּר, etc.): צ ׳אֶרֶץ land of drought, desert Hos 2:5 (simile), Jer 2:6; Jer 50:12 (figurative), Jer 51:43; Isa 41:18; Isa 53:2 (in simile), Psa 107:35; + צָמָא Eze 19:13 (figurative), + שְׁמָמָה Joe 2:20, + עָיֵף Psa 63:2 (figurative); ׳צ =desert Isa 35:1; Zep 2:13; Job 30:3; Psa 78:17; plural Psa 105:41.

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Landscapes15 occurrences Dry1 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

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