יָבֵשׁ yavesh

Hebrew word for “to wither” · Strong’s H3001 · used 59 times in 52 verses

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Meaning

1) to make dry, wither, be dry, become dry, be dried up, be withered;

How it is translated

Glosses given for yavesh in context, with how often each is used:

• dried up 12
• has dried up 6
• will dry up 5
• will wither 5
• dries up 4
• have dried up 4
• dry 2
• has withered 2
• will be dry 2
• will make dry 2
• had dried up 1
• may be dry 1

Where it is used

Also in 3 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Joel 1 (4), Isaiah 40 (3), Ezekiel 17 (3), Genesis 8 (2), Joshua 9 (2), Psalms 102 (2), Isaiah 19 (2), Joshua 2 (1), Joshua 4 (1), Joshua 5 (1)

Forms

• יבשׁ 9
• תיבשׁ 7
• הובישׁ 6
• ויבשׁ 6
• יבשׁו 5
• ויבשׁו 4
• ייבשׁ 3
• אובישׁ 3
• וייבשׁ 2
• הבישׁ 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with yavesh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• חָרֵב charev “to destroy” 7
• מַי mayim “water” 10
• חָצִיר chatsir “grass” 5
• יָם yam “sea” 8
• רוּחַ ruach “spirit” 8
• נָהָר nahar “river” 6
• עֵשֶׂב esev “vegetation” 4
• אָבַל aval “to mourn” 4
• נָוָה naah “habitation” 3
• אָמַל amal “to weaken” 3
• שָׂדֶה sadeh “land” 5
• שֹׁרֶשׁ sheresh “root” 3

Key verses

The verses using yavesh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Joshua 5:1 — And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea,…
• Psalms 22:15 — My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
• Isaiah 27:11 — When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that…
• Isaiah 40:24 — Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they…
• Jeremiah 10:14 — Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
• Ezekiel 17:24 — And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have…
• Ezekiel 19:12 — But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire…
• Ezekiel 37:11 — Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for…
• Hosea 13:15 — Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and…
• Amos 4:7 — And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain…
• Nahum 1:4 — He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
• Zechariah 11:17 — Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.