H6723 - צִיָּה (tsîyâh)

H6723 צִיָּה (tsîyâh) tsee-yaw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

dryness

Strong's Definition

aridity; concretely, a desert

Derivation: from an unused root meaning to parch;

KJV Usage: barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness.

TWOT Reference: 1909a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) dryness, drought, desert

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G504 G1372 G2048 G3584

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

dryness, drought, desert

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

צִיָּה tsý̂yâh BDB Definition: 1) dryness, drought, desert Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from an unused root meaning to parch Same Word by TWOT Number: 1909a Total KJV Occurrences: 16

Bible Occurrences (16)

24:19 30:3

63:1 78:17 105:41 107:35

35:1 41:18 53:2

2:6 50:12 51:43

19:13

2:3

2:20

2:13

Job 24:19

As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

Job 30:3

Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.

Isaiah 35:1

The wilderness and the dry land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.

Isaiah 41:18

I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs....

Isaiah 53:2

He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no [stately] form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.

Jeremiah 2:6

They did not ask, Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?

Jeremiah 50:12

your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, [she will be] the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Jeremiah 51:43

Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no... one lives, where no son of man passes through....