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# צִיָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6723

**dryness** — used 16 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

dryness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6723/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִיָּה: n.f. dryness, drought [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6723/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. dryness, drought;—abs. צ׳ Ho 2:5 +; pl. צִיּוֹת ψ 105:41;—drought Jb 24:19 (‖ חֹם); elsewhere of land (often ‖ מִדְבָּר, עֲרָבָה, etc.): אֶרֶץ צ׳ land of drought, desert Ho 2:5 (sim.), Je 2:6; 50:12 (fig.), 51:43; Is 41:18; 53:2 (in sim.), ψ 107:35; + צָמָא Ez 19:13 (fig.), + שְׁמָמָה Jo 2:20, + עָיֵף ψ 63:2 (fig.); צ׳ = desert Is 35:1; Zp 2:13; Jb 30:3 ψ 78:17; pl. 105:41.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of dryness (9); a dry region (2); a desert (1).

## In the verses

[Job 24:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.19/#tree)

צִיָּ֤ה גַם־חֹ֗ם יִגְזְל֥וּ מֵֽימֵי־שֶׁ֗לֶג שְׁא֣וֹל חָטָֽאוּ׃

*Word for word:* drought also heat they.snatch.away \[the\].waters of.snow Sheol \[those.who\].they.have.sinned

*JPS 1917:* Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so doth the nether-world those that have sinned.

[Psalms 105:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.41/#tree)

פָּ֣תַח צ֭וּר וַיָּז֣וּבוּ מָ֑יִם הָ֝לְכ֗וּ בַּצִּיּ֥וֹת נָהָֽר׃

*Word for word:* he.opened a.rock and they.flowed.out waters they.went in the.dry regions a.river

*JPS 1917:* He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; they ran, a river in the dry places.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6723.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6723/): 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).