צִיָּהtsîyâh
dryness, drought (Hosea 2:5; Psalms 105:41; Job 24:19; Jeremiah 2:6; Jeremiah 50:12)
Pronunciation: tsee-yaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6723
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 16 times in the Bible.
- Job 24:19 The grave consumes sinners just as drought and heat consume snow.
- Job 30:3 They are gaunt from poverty and hunger. They claw the dry ground in desolate wastelands.
- Psalms 63:1 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.
- Psalms 78:17 Yet they kept on sinning against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
- Psalms 105:41 He split open a rock, and water gushed out to form a river through the dry wasteland.
- Psalms 107:35 But he also turns deserts into pools of water, the dry land into springs of water.
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).