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# צָיוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6724

**dryness** — 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

dryness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6724/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָיוֹן: dryness, parched ground [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6724/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] dryness, parched ground (on format. v. LagBN 204);—כְּחֹרֶב בְּצ׳ Is 25:5, בְּצ׳ 32:2 (‖ אֶרֶץ עֲיֵפָה; both in sim.).

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 (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a dry land (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 25:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.25.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.25.5/#tree)

כְּחֹ֣רֶב בְּצָי֔וֹן שְׁא֥וֹן זָרִ֖ים תַּכְנִ֑יעַ חֹ֚רֶב בְּצֵ֣ל עָ֔ב זְמִ֥יר עָֽרִיצִ֖ים יַעֲנֶֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* like heat in a.dry.land \[the\].uproar of.strangers you.will.subdue heat by.\[the\] shade of.a.cloud \[the\].song of.ruthless.\[people\] he.will.quieten

*JPS 1917:* As the heat in a dry place, Thou didst subdue the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones was brought low.

[Isaiah 32:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.2/#tree)

וְהָיָה־אִ֥ישׁ כְּמַֽחֲבֵא־ר֖וּחַ וְסֵ֣תֶר זָ֑רֶם כְּפַלְגֵי־מַ֣יִם בְּצָי֔וֹן כְּצֵ֥ל סֶֽלַע־כָּבֵ֖ד בְּאֶ֥רֶץ עֲיֵפָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.be each like a.hiding.place of.a.wind and a.shelter of.a.rainstorm like streams of.water in a.dry.land like.\[the\] shadow of.a.rock heavy in a.land weary

*JPS 1917:* And a man shall be as in a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as by the watercourses in a dry place, as in the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6724.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6724/): 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).