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# נָשַׁת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5405

**be dry** — used 3 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

be dry [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5405/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָשַׁת: vb. be dry, parched [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5405/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be dry, parched;— Pf. 3 fs. לְשׁוֹנָם בַּצָּמָא נָשָׁ֑תָּה Is 41:17 (on D f. affect. v. Ges§ 20 i); also fig. נָֽשְׁתָה גְבוּרָתָם Je 51:30, their might is dry, i.e. fails. Pf. 3 pl. consec. וְנִשְּׁתוּ־מַיִם מֵהַיָּ֑ם Is 19:5 and water shall be dried up from the sea; cf. Impf. יִנָּֽתְשׁוּ מַיִּם Je 18:14, where read prob. יִנָּֽשְׁתוּ (Gf Gie al.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it is dry (1); it will be dry (1); they will be dried up (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 19:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.5/#tree)

וְנִשְּׁתוּ־מַ֖יִם מֵֽהַיָּ֑ם וְנָהָ֖ר יֶחֱרַ֥ב וְיָבֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.be.dried.up waters from the sea and a.river it.will.become.dry and it.will.be.dry

*JPS 1917:* And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be drained dry,

[Jeremiah 51:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.30/#tree)

חָדְלוּ֩ גִבּוֹרֵ֨י בָבֶ֜ל לְהִלָּחֵ֗ם יָֽשְׁבוּ֙ בַּמְּצָד֔וֹת נָשְׁתָ֥ה גְבוּרָתָ֖ם הָי֣וּ לְנָשִׁ֑ים הִצִּ֥יתוּ מִשְׁכְּנֹתֶ֖יהָ נִשְׁבְּר֥וּ בְרִיחֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* they.will.cease the.warriors of.Babylon to fight they.will.remain in the strongholds it.will.be.dry strength their they.will.become (into) women they.will.be.set.on.fire dwellings its they.will.be.broken bars its

*JPS 1917:* The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might hath failed, they are become as women; her dwelling-places are set on fire; her bars are broken.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5405.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5405/): 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).