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# יָבֵשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3002

**dry** — used 9 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 [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3002/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָבֵשׁ²: adj.verb. pt. dry, dried [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3002/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.verb. or pt. dry, dried, so, ms. abs. Na 1:10 + 4 times; fs. יְבֵשָׁה Nu 11:6; mpl. (וִ)יבֵשִׁים Nu 6:3; fpl. יְבֵשׁוֹת Ez 37:2, 4;— dried, lit. only עֲנָבִים יְבֵשִׁים Nu 6:3 dried grapes (P; opp. ע׳ לַחִים); fig. נַפְשֵׁנוּ יְבֵשָׁה 11:6 (JE) our soul (i.e. our appetite) is dried up, viz. for want of fresh, juicy meat. dry, of chaff, קַשׁ Na 1:10 in sim. of Ninevites under impending judgment; cf. in fig. of Job, Jb 13:25; of tree Ez 17:24 (fig. of Davidic house; opp. עֵץ לָ֑ה), 21:3 (in prediction of Judah’s devastation by Babylon, opp. id.); Is 56:3 fig. of eunuch; of the bones in Ezek.’s vision Ez 37:2, 4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: dry (7); \[is\] dry (1); \[they were\] dry (1).

## In the verses

[Job 13:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.25/#tree)

הֶעָלֶ֣ה נִדָּ֣ף תַּעֲר֑וֹץ וְאֶת־קַ֖שׁ יָבֵ֣שׁ תִּרְדֹּֽף׃

*Word for word:* a leaf? driven.about will.you.terrify and (et) chaff dry will.you.pursue?

*JPS 1917:* Wilt Thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt Thou pursue the dry stubble?

[Numbers 11:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.6/#tree)

וְעַתָּ֛ה נַפְשֵׁ֥נוּ יְבֵשָׁ֖ה אֵ֣ין כֹּ֑ל בִּלְתִּ֖י אֶל־הַמָּ֥ן עֵינֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* and now appetite our \[is\].dry there.\[is\].not anything except \[are\].to the manna eyes our

*JPS 1917:* but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all; we have nought save this manna to look to.' —

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3002.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3002/): 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).