יַבָּשָׁהyabbâshâh
dry land, dry ground (Exodus 4:9; Exodus 14:16; Exodus 14:22; Exodus 14:29; Exodus 15:19)
Pronunciation: yab-baw-shaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3004
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 14 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 1:9 Then God said, “Let the waters beneath the sky flow together into one place, so dry ground may appear.” And that is what happened.
- Genesis 1:10 God called the dry ground “land” and the waters “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
- Exodus 4:9 And if they don’t believe you or listen to you even after these two signs, then take some water from the Nile River and pour it out on the dry ground. When you do, the water from the Nile will turn to blood on the ground.”
- Exodus 14:16 Pick up your staff and raise your hand over the sea. Divide the water so the Israelites can walk through the middle of the sea on dry ground.
- Exodus 14:22 So the people of Israel walked through the middle of the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on each side!
- Exodus 14:29 But the people of Israel had walked through the middle of the sea on dry ground, as the water stood up like a wall on both sides.
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).