צִיָּה tsiyyah

Hebrew word for “dryness” · Strong’s H6723 · used 16 times in 16 verses

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Meaning

dryness, drought, desert

How it is translated

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

• dry 9
• dry region 4
• drought 1
• dry regions 1
• desert 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Job 24 (1), Job 30 (1), Psalms 63 (1), Psalms 78 (1), Psalms 105 (1), Psalms 107 (1), Isaiah 35 (1), Isaiah 41 (1), Isaiah 53 (1), Jeremiah 2 (1)

Forms

• ציה 13
• בציה 1
• בציות 1
• וציה 1

Words used with it

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

• מִדְבָּר midbar “wilderness” 9
• עֲרָבָה aravah “Arabah” 4
• מַי mayim “water” 5
• אֲגַם agam “pool” 2
• שׂוּם sum “to set” 4
• צָמָא tsama “thirst” 2
• מוֹצָא motsa “exit” 2
• שְׁמָמָה shemamah “devastation” 2
• נָהָר nahar “river” 2
• פָּתַח patach “to open” 2
• עָלָה alah “to ascend” 3
• חָטָא chata “to sin” 2

Key verses

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

• Job 24:19 — Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
• Psalms 63:1 — [A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.] O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for…
• Psalms 105:41 — He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.
• Psalms 107:35 — He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
• Isaiah 35:1 — The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
• Isaiah 41:18 — I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
• Isaiah 53:2 — For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no…
• Jeremiah 2:6 — Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits,…
• Jeremiah 50:12 — Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
• Hosea 2:3 — Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
• Joel 2:20 — But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder…
• Zephaniah 2:13 — And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

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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.