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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.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:19 -

As dry ground and heat snatch away the melted snow,

so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:3 -

Emaciated from poverty and hunger,

they gnawed the dry land,

the desolate wasteland by night.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:1 -

God, you are my God; I eagerly seek you.

I thirst for you;

my body faints for you

in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:17 -

But they continued to sin against him,

rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:41 -

He opened a rock, and water gushed out;

it flowed like a stream in the desert.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:35 -

He turns a desert into a pool,

dry land into springs.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:1 -

The wilderness and the dry land will be glad;

the desert will rejoice and blossom like a wildflower.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:18 -

I will open rivers on the barren heights,

and springs in the middle of the plains.

I will turn the desert into a pool

and dry land into springs.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:2 -

He grew up before him like a young plant

and like a root out of dry ground.

He didn’t have an impressive form

or majesty that we should look at him,

no appearance that we should desire him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6 -

They stopped asking, “Where is the LORD

who brought us from the land of Egypt,

who led us through the wilderness,

through a land of deserts and ravines,

through a land of drought and darkness,[fn]

a land no one traveled through

and where no one lived? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:12 -

your mother will be utterly humiliated;

she who bore you will be put to shame.

Look! She will lag behind all[fn] the nations —

an arid wilderness, a desert.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 -

Her cities have become a desolation,

an arid desert,

a land where no one lives,

where no human being even passes through.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:13 -

“Now it is planted in the wilderness,

in a dry and thirsty land.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:3 -

Otherwise, I will strip her naked

and expose her as she was on the day of her birth.

I will make her like a desert

and like a parched land,

and I will let her die of thirst.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:20 -

I will drive the northerner far from you

and banish him to a dry and desolate land,

his front ranks into the Dead Sea,

and his rear guard into the Mediterranean Sea.

His stench will rise;

yes, his rotten smell will rise,

for he has done astonishing things.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:13 -

He will also stretch out his hand against the north

and destroy Assyria;

he will make Nineveh a desolate ruin,

dry as the desert.

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