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# יַבֶּשֶׁת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3006

**dry ground** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

dry ground [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3006/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יַבֶּ֫שֶׁת: n.f. id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3006/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. id., made by God’s hands ψ 95:5; water shall become blood בַּיַּבָּ֑שֶׁת Ex 4:9 (J).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: dry land (1); ground (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 95:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.95.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.95.5/#tree)

אֲשֶׁר־ל֣וֹ הַ֭יָּם וְה֣וּא עָשָׂ֑הוּ וְ֝יַבֶּ֗שֶׁת יָדָ֥יו יָצָֽרוּ׃

*Word for word:* whom \[belongs\].to him the sea and he he made.it and.\[the\] dry.land hands his they.formed

*JPS 1917:* The sea is His, and He made it; and His hands formed the dry land.

[Exodus 4:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.4.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.4.9/#tree)

וְהָיָ֡ה אִם־לֹ֣א יַאֲמִ֡ינוּ גַּם֩ לִשְׁנֵ֨י הָאֹת֜וֹת הָאֵ֗לֶּה וְלֹ֤א יִשְׁמְעוּן֙ לְקֹלֶ֔ךָ וְלָקַחְתָּ֙ מִמֵּימֵ֣י הַיְאֹ֔ר וְשָׁפַכְתָּ֖ הַיַּבָּשָׁ֑ה וְהָי֤וּ הַמַּ֙יִם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תִּקַּ֣ח מִן־הַיְאֹ֔ר וְהָי֥וּ לְדָ֖ם בַּיַּבָּֽשֶׁת׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be if not they.will.believe also (to).the two the signs (the) these and not they will.listen to voice your and you.will.take some of.the.water of the.River and you.will.pour.\[it\].out the.dry ground and they.will.become the waters which you.will.take from the River and they.will.become (into) blood on the.dry ground

*JPS 1917:* And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land; and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3006.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3006/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).