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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 - The grave[fn] consumes sinners
just as drought and heat consume snow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:3 - They are gaunt with hunger
and flee to the deserts,
to desolate and gloomy wastelands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 63:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:1 - A psalm of David, regarding a time when David was in the wilderness of Judah.

O God, you are my God;
I earnestly search for you.
My soul thirsts for you;
my whole body longs for you
in this parched and weary land
where there is no water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:17 - Yet they kept on sinning against him,
rebelling against the Most High in the desert.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:41

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:41 - He split open a rock, and water gushed out
to form a river through the dry wasteland.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:35 - But he also turns deserts into pools of water,
the dry land into springs of water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 35:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:1 - Even the wilderness and desert will be glad in those days.
The wasteland will rejoice and blossom with spring crocuses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:18 - I will open up rivers for them on the high plateaus.
I will give them fountains of water in the valleys.
I will fill the desert with pools of water.
Rivers fed by springs will flow across the parched ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 53:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:2 - My servant grew up in the LORD’s presence like a tender green shoot,
like a root in dry ground.
There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance,
nothing to attract us to 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 safely out of Egypt
and led us through the barren wilderness—
a land of deserts and pits,
a land of drought and death,
where no one lives or even travels?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:12 - But your homeland[fn] will be overwhelmed
with shame and disgrace.
You will become the least of nations—
a wilderness, a dry and desolate land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 - Her cities now lie in ruins;
she is a dry wasteland
where no one lives or even passes by.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:13 - Now the vine is transplanted to the wilderness,
where the ground is hard and dry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:3 - Otherwise, I will strip her as naked
as she was on the day she was born.
I will leave her to die of thirst,
as in a dry and barren wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:20 - I will drive away these armies from the north.
I will send them into the parched wastelands.
Those in the front will be driven into the Dead Sea,
and those at the rear into the Mediterranean.[fn]
The stench of their rotting bodies will rise over the land.”
Surely the LORD has done great things!

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:13 - And the LORD will strike the lands of the north with his fist,
destroying the land of Assyria.
He will make its great capital, Nineveh, a desolate wasteland,
parched like a desert.
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