יָבֵשׁyâbêsh
dry, dried
Pronunciation: yaw-bashe' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3002
Meanings
1. dried, literal (Numbers 6:3; Numbers 11:6)
2. dry (Nahum 1:10; Job 13:25; Ezekiel 17:24)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 10 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 6:3 they must give up wine and other alcoholic drinks. They must not use vinegar made from wine or from other alcoholic drinks, they must not drink fresh grape juice, and they must not eat grapes or raisins.
- Numbers 11:6 But now our appetites are gone. All we ever see is this manna!”
- Job 13:25 Would you terrify a leaf blown by the wind? Would you chase dry straw?
- Isaiah 56:3 “Don’t let foreigners who commit themselves to the Lord say, ‘The Lord will never let me be part of his people.’ And don’t let the eunuchs say, ‘I’m a dried-up tree with no children and no future.’
- Lamentations 4:8 But now their faces are blacker than soot. No one recognizes them in the streets. Their skin sticks to their bones; it is as dry and hard as wood.
- Ezekiel 17:24 And all the trees will know that it is I, the Lord, who cuts the tall tree down and makes the short tree grow tall. It is I who makes the green tree wither and gives the dead tree new life. I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do what I said!”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).