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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
Dictionary Aids

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 - As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:3 - Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed[fn] the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 63:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:1 - [fn]A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah. You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs 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 - But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:41

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:41 - He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:35 - He turned the desert into pools of water and the parched ground into flowing springs;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 35:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:1 - The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom. Like the crocus,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:18 - I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 53:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:2 - He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire 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 brought us up out of Egypt and led us through the barren wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, a land of drought and utter darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:12 - your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who gave you birth will be disgraced. She will be the least of the nations— a wilderness, a dry land, a desert.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 - Her towns will be desolate, a dry and desert land, a land where no one lives, through which no one travels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:13 - Now it is planted in the desert, 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 make her as bare as on the day she was born; I will make her like a desert, turn her into a parched land, and slay her with thirst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:20 - “I will drive the northern horde far from you, pushing it into a parched and barren land; its eastern ranks will drown in the Dead Sea and its western ranks in the Mediterranean Sea. And its stench will go up; its smell will rise.” Surely he has done great things!

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:13 - He will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, leaving Nineveh utterly desolate and dry as the desert.
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