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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 51
    spellings

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

The word stands in fifteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 24 Old Testament books never use the word.

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.

יָבֵשׁyabeshdryUses10

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

The words it stands beside

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.

    Genesis 8:7

    • יְבֹ֥שֶׁתyevoshetverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: dried up
  • By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.

    Genesis 8:14

    • 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.

    Joshua 2:10

    • 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.

    Joshua 4:23

    • 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.

    Joshua 5:1

    • 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.

    Joshua 9:5

    • 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.

    Joshua 9:12

    • 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.

    1 Kings 13:4

    • וַתִּיבַ֤שׁvativashHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it dried up
  • Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

    1 Kings 17:7

    • וַיִּיבַ֣שׁvaiyivashHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it dried up

Job

five uses
  • While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.

    Job 8:12

    • 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.

    Job 12:15

    • וְיִבָ֑שׁוּveyivashuHC/Vqu3mptagged: so they may be dry
  • As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,

    Job 14:11

    • 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.

    Job 15:30

    • 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.

    Job 18:16

    • 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.

    Psalms 22:15

    • 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.

    Psalms 74:15

    • 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.

    Psalms 90:6

    • וְיָבֵֽשׁ׃veyaveshHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it dries up
  • My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.

    Psalms 102:4

    • וַיִּבַ֣שׁvaiyivashHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it has withered
  • My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

    Psalms 102:11

    • 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,

    Psalms 129:6

    • 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.

    Proverbs 17:22

    • 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.

    Isaiah 15:6

    • 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.

    Isaiah 19:5

    • 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.

    Isaiah 19:7

    • 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.

    Isaiah 27:11

    • 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.

    Isaiah 40:7

    • 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.”

    Isaiah 40:8

    • 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.

    Isaiah 40:24

    • 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.

    Isaiah 42:15

    • 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,’

    Isaiah 44:27

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 10:14

    • 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.”

    Jeremiah 12:4

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 23:10

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 50:38

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 51:36

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 17:9

    • 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.’”

    Ezekiel 17:10

    • 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.’”

    Ezekiel 17:24

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 19:12

    • 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.’

    Ezekiel 37:11

    • 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.

    Hosea 9:16

    • 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.

    Hosea 13:15

    • 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.

    Joel 1:10

    • 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.

    Joel 1:12

    • 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.

    Joel 1:17

    • 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.

    Joel 1:20

    • 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.”

    Amos 1:2

    • 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.

    Amos 4:7

    • 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.

    Jonah 4:7

    • 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.

    Nahum 1:4

    • 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.

    Zechariah 10:11

    • 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!”

    Zechariah 11:17

    • יָב֣וֹשׁyavooshverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: totally wither
    • תִּיבָ֔שׁtivashverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will wither

The letters

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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.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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