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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 - As drought and heat consume the snow waters,
So the grave[fn] consumes those who have sinned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:3 - They are gaunt from want and famine,
Fleeing late to the wilderness, desolate and waste,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 63:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:1 - A Psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

O God, You are my God;
Early will I seek You;
My soul thirsts for You;
My flesh longs for You
In a dry and thirsty land
Where there is no water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:17 - But they sinned even more against Him
By rebelling against the Most High in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:41

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:41 - He opened the rock, and water gushed out;
It ran in the dry places like a river.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:35 - He turns a wilderness into pools of water,
And dry land into watersprings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 35:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:1 - The wilderness and the wasteland shall be glad for them,
And the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:18 - I will open rivers in desolate heights,
And fountains in the midst of the valleys;
I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
And the dry land springs of water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 53:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:2 - For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no form or comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no beauty that we should desire Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6 - Neither did they say, ‘Where is the LORD,
Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
Who led us through the wilderness,
Through a land of deserts and pits,
Through a land of drought and the shadow of death,
Through a land that no one crossed
And where no one dwelt?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:12 - Your mother shall be deeply ashamed;
She who bore you shall be ashamed.
Behold, the least of the nations shall be a wilderness,
A dry land and a desert.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 - Her cities are a desolation,
A dry land and a wilderness,
A land where no one dwells,
Through which no son of man passes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:13 - And now she 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 - Lest I strip her naked
And expose her, as in the day she was born,
And make her like a wilderness,
And set her like a dry land,
And slay her with thirst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:20 - “But I will remove far from you the northern army,
And will drive him away into a barren and desolate land,
With his face toward the eastern sea
And his back toward the western sea;
His stench will come up,
And his foul odor will rise,
Because he has done monstrous things.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:13 - And He will stretch out His hand against the north,
Destroy Assyria,
And make Nineveh a desolation,
As dry as the wilderness.
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