Hebrew verb · H3001
יָבֵשׁ
yabeshyaw-bashe'
to wither
59 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: yâbêsh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3001is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 15 of 39Old Testament books
- 51spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3001
to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
The King James renders it: be ashamed, clean, be confounded, (make) dry (up), (do) shame(-fully), [idiom] utterly, wither (away).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
yabesh is rendered "to wither". It stands 59 times in the Hebrew text, across fifteen books.
- Ten of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 8:7and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
- The Greek text spells it fifty-one different ways.
The first use
and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
Genesis 8:7יְבֹ֥שֶׁת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- it has dried up6
- he dried up3
- it dries up3
- it will wither3
- they have dried up3
- and it dried up2
- and it will wither2
- and they will dry up2
- I will dry up2
- it dried up2
- and he made dry it1
- and I will make dry1
and 29 more, 59 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| יָבֵשׁ | yabesh | dry | Uses10 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 59, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
51 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְיָבֵֽשׁ׃3
- אוֹבִֽישׁ׃2
- הוֹבִ֨ישׁ2
- הוֹבִ֥ישׁ2
- יָבֵ֖שׁ2
- יָבֵ֤שׁ2
- תִּיבָ֔שׁ2
- אוֹבִ֑ישׁ1
- אִיבָֽשׁ׃1
- בִּיבֹ֤שׁ1
- הֹבִ֥ישׁ1
- הֹבִ֖ישׁ1
and 39 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular8HVhp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular8HVqp3ms
- Hc/Vqq3ms5Hc/Vqq3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular5HVqi3fs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural4HVqp3cp
- Hc/Vqw3ms3Hc/Vqw3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular3HVhi1cs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqi3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2HVpi3fs
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolute2HVqaa
- Hc/Vhq1cs1Hc/Vhq1cs
- Hc/Vhq3cp1Hc/Vhq3cp
Genesis
two uses
and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
- יְבֹ֥שֶׁתyevoshetverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: dried up
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.
- יָבְשָׁ֖הyaveshahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it was dry
Joshua
six uses
For we have heard how the LORD dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction.
- הוֹבִ֨ישׁhovishverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he dried up
For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as He did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over.
- הוֹבִישׁ֩hovishverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he dried up
- הוֹבִ֥ישׁhovishverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he dried up
Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and their spirits failed for fear of the Israelites.
- הוֹבִ֨ישׁhovishverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had dried up
They put worn, patched sandals on their feet and threadbare clothing on their bodies, and their whole supply of bread was dry and moldy.
- יָבֵ֖שׁyaveshverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was dried up
This bread of ours was warm when we packed it at home on the day we left to come to you. But take a look, it is now dry and moldy.
- יָבֵ֔שׁyaveshverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has dried up
1 Kings
two uses
Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.
- וַתִּיבַ֤שׁvativashHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it dried up
Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
- וַיִּיבַ֣שׁvaiyivashHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it dried up
Job
five uses
While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.
- יִיבָֽשׁ׃yivashverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is dried up
If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.
- וְיִבָ֑שׁוּveyivashuHC/Vqu3mptagged: so they may be dry
As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,
- וְיָבֵֽשׁ׃veyaveshHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it is dry
He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
- תְּיַבֵּ֣שׁteyabeshverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will dry up
The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
- יִבָ֑שׁוּyivashuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they are dried up
Psalms
six uses
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.
- יָ֘בֵ֤שׁyaveshverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has dried up
You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
- ה֝וֹבַ֗שְׁתָּhovashtaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you dried up
in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.
- וְיָבֵֽשׁ׃veyaveshHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it dries up
My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.
- וַיִּבַ֣שׁvaiyivashHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it has withered
My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
- אִיבָֽשׁ׃ʾivashverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am withering
May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,
- יָבֵֽשׁ׃yaveshverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has withered
Proverbs
one use
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
- תְּיַבֶּשׁ־teyabesh-verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it dries up
Isaiah
ten uses
The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.
- יָבֵ֤שׁyaveshverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has dried up
The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.
- וְיָבֵֽשׁ׃veyaveshHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will be dry
The bulrushes by the Nile, by the mouth of the river, and all the fields sown along the Nile, will wither, blow away, and be no more.
- יִיבַ֥שׁyivashverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be dry
When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
- בִּיבֹ֤שׁbivoshpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: when dry up
The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.
- יָבֵ֤שׁyaveshverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it dries up
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
- יָבֵ֥שׁyaveshverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it dries up
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.
- וַיִּבָ֔שׁוּvaiyivashuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they have dried up
I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.
- אוֹבִ֑ישׁʾovishverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will dry up
- אוֹבִֽישׁ׃ʾovishverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will dry up
who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’
- אוֹבִֽישׁ׃ʾovishverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will make dry
Jeremiah
five uses
Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
- הֹבִ֥ישׁhovishverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has been put to shame
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
- יִיבָ֑שׁyivashverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will it be dried up
For the land is full of adulterers—because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up—their course is evil and their power is misused.
- יָבְשׁ֖וּyaveshuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have become dry
A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.
- וְיָבֵ֑שׁוּveyaveshuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will dry up
Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.
- וְהֹבַשְׁתִּ֖יvehoashtiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will make dry
Ezekiel
nine uses
So you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Will it flourish? Will it not be uprooted and stripped of its fruit so that it shrivels? All its foliage will wither! It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it up by its roots.
- וְיָבֵ֗שׁveyaveshHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will wither
- תִּיבָ֔שׁtivashverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will wither
Even if it is transplanted, will it flourish? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes? It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.’”
- תִּיבַ֣שׁtivashverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: will it wither
- יָבֹ֔שׁyavoshverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: completely to wither
- תִּיבָֽשׁ׃ פtivashverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will wither
Then all the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I bring the tall tree down and make the low tree tall. I dry up the green tree and make the withered tree flourish. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I have done it.’”
- הוֹבַ֙שְׁתִּי֙hovashtiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I make dry
But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them.
- הוֹבִ֣ישׁhovishverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it dried up
- וְיָבֵ֛שׁוּveyaveshuconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: and they became dry
Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
- יָבְשׁ֧וּyaveshuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have dried up
Hosea
two uses
Ephraim is struck down; their root is withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay the darlings of their wombs.
- יָבֵ֖שׁyaveshverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has dried up
Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.
- וְיֵב֤וֹשׁveyevooshHC/Vqu3mstagged: and it may be withered
Joel
four uses
The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.
- הוֹבִ֥ישׁhovishverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has dried up
The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.
- יָבֵ֔שׁוּyaveshuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have dried up
The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.
- הֹבִ֖ישׁhovishverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has dried up
Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.
- יָֽבְשׁוּ֙yaveshuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have dried up
Amos
two uses
He said: “The LORD roars from Zion and raises His voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the summit of Carmel withers.”
- וְיָבֵ֖שׁveyaveshHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will wither
“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
- תִּיבָֽשׁ׃tivashverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it dried up
Jonah
one use
When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.
- וַיִּיבָֽשׁ׃vaiyivashHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it withered
Nahum
one use
He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.
- וַֽיַּבְּשֵׁ֔הוּvaiyabeshehuHc/Vpw3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he made dry it
Zechariah
three uses
They will pass through the sea of distress and strike the waves of the sea; all the depths of the Nile will dry up. The pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.
- וְהֹבִ֕ישׁוּvehovishuHc/Vhq3cptagged: and they will dry up
Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered and his right eye utterly blinded!”
- יָב֣וֹשׁyavooshverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: totally wither
- תִּיבָ֔שׁtivashverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will wither
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
