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Lexicon :: Strong's H6723 - ṣîyâ

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צִיָּה
Transliteration
ṣîyâ
Pronunciation
tsee-yaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to parch
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TWOT Reference: 1909a

Strong’s Definitions

צִיָּה tsîyâh, tsee-yaw'; from an unused root meaning to parch; aridity; concretely, a desert:—barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x

The KJV translates Strong's H6723 in the following manner: dry (7x), dry land (2x), wilderness (2x), drought (2x), dry places (1x), solitary place (1x), barren (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x
The KJV translates Strong's H6723 in the following manner: dry (7x), dry land (2x), wilderness (2x), drought (2x), dry places (1x), solitary place (1x), barren (1x).

  1. dryness, drought, desert

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
צִיָּה tsîyâh, tsee-yaw'; from an unused root meaning to parch; aridity; concretely, a desert:—barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness.
STRONGS H6723: Abbreviations
† צִיָּה noun feminine dryness, drought; — absolute צ׳ Hosea 2:5+; plural צִיּוֺת Psalm 105:41; — drought Job 24:19 (|| חֹם); elsewhere of land (often || מִדְבָּר, עְַרָבָה etc.): אֶרֶץ צ׳ land of drought, desert Hosea 2:5 (simile), Jeremiah 2:6; Jeremiah 50:12 (figurative), Jeremiah 51:43; Isaiah 41:18; Isaiah 53:2 (in simile), Psalm 107:35; + צָמָא Ezekiel 19:13 (figurative), + שְׁמָמָה Joel 2:20, + עָיֵף Psalm 63:2 (figurative); צ׳ =desert Isaiah 35:1; Zephaniah 2:13; Job 30:3; Psalm 78:17; plural Psalm 105:41.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Job

24:19; 30:3

Psalms

63:2; 78:17; 105:41; 105:41; 107:35

Isaiah

35:1; 41:18; 53:2

Jeremiah

2:6; 50:12; 51:43

Ezekiel

19:13

Hosea

2:5; 2:5

Joel

2:20

Zephaniah

2:13

H6723

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6723 matches the Hebrew צִיָּה (ṣîyâ),
which occurs 16 times in 16 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:19 - The drought as well as the heat carry away the melted snow; so the grave takes away those who have sinned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:3 - gaunt with want and hunger, they would gnaw the parched land, in former time desolate and waste.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 63:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:1 - O God, you are my God! I long for you! My soul thirsts for you, my flesh yearns for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:17 - Yet they continued to sin against him, and rebelled against the sovereign One in the desert.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:41

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:41 - He opened up a rock and water flowed out; a river ran through dry regions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:35 - As for his people, he turned a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 35:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:1 - Let the desert and dry region be happy; let the wilderness rejoice and bloom like a lily!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:18 - I will make streams flow down the slopes and produce springs in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water and the arid land into springs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 53:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:2 - He sprouted up like a twig before God, like a root out of parched soil; he had no stately form or majesty that might catch our attention, no special appearance that we should want to follow him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6 - They did not ask: 'Where is the LORD who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of desert sands and rift valleys, through a land of drought and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:12 - But Babylonia will be put to great shame. The land where you were born will be disgraced. Indeed, Babylonia will become the least important of all nations. It will become a dry and barren desert.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 - The towns of Babylonia have become heaps of ruins. She has become a dry and barren desert. No one lives in those towns any more. No one even passes through them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:13 - Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:3 - Otherwise, I will strip her naked, and expose her like she was when she was born. I will turn her land into a wilderness and make her country a parched land, so that I might kill her with thirst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:20 - I will remove the one from the north far from you. I will drive him out to a dry and desolate place. Those in front will be driven eastward into the Dead Sea, and those in back westward into the Mediterranean Sea. His stench will rise up as a foul smell." Indeed, the LORD has accomplished great things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:13 - The LORD will attack the north and destroy Assyria. He will make Nineveh a heap of ruins; it will be as barren as the desert.
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