יַבָּשָׁה yabbashah
Hebrew word for “dry land” · Strong’s H3004 · used 14 times in 14 verses
Meaning
dry land, dry ground
How it is translated
Glosses given for yabbashah in context, with how often each is used:
- dry ground 10
- dry land 4
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Exodus 14 (3), Genesis 1 (2), Jonah 1 (2), Exodus 4 (1), Exodus 15 (1), Joshua 4 (1), Nehemiah 9 (1), Psalms 66 (1), Isaiah 44 (1), Jonah 2 (1)
Forms
- ביבשׁה 6
- היבשׁה 5
- ליבשׁה 2
- יבשׁה 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with yabbashah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- יָם yam “sea” 9
- מַי mayim “water” 8
- תָּוֶךְ tavekh “midst” 5
- בָּקַע baqa “to break up/open” 2
- שְׂמֹאל semol “left” 2
- עָבַר avar “to pass” 3
- חוֹמָה chomah “wall” 2
- יָמִין yamin “right” 2
- הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 3
- שָׁמַיִם shamayim “heaven” 2
- שׁוּב shuv “to return” 2
- הֶם hem “them” 2
Key verses
The verses using yabbashah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 1:9 — And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
- Genesis 1:10 — And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
- Exodus 14:16 — But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the…
- Exodus 14:22 — And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
- Exodus 14:29 — But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
- Exodus 15:19 — For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the…
- Joshua 4:22 — Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
- Nehemiah 9:11 — And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps,…
- Psalms 66:6 — He turned the sea into dry they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
- Isaiah 44:3 — For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
- Jonah 1:9 — And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.
- Jonah 2:10 — And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
See all 14 verses in the Word Atlas
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.