Hebrew noun (feminine) · H6723
צִיָּה
tsiahtsee-yaw'
dryness
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tsîyâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6723is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6723
aridity; concretely, a desert
The King James renders it: barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness.
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
tsiah is rendered "dryness". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Four of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 24:19As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.
Job 24:19צִיָּ֤ה
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
- dry9
- a dry region2
- a desert1
- and dry region1
- drought1
- in the dry region1
- in the dry regions1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- צִיָּ֖ה3
- צִיָּ֣ה3
- צִיָּ֔ה2
- צִיָּ֥ה2
- בַּצִּיָּֽה׃1
- בַּצִּיּ֥וֹת1
- וְצִיָּ֑ה1
- צִ֝יָּ֗ה1
- צִיָּ֤ה1
- צִיָּ֑ה1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular13HNcfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Ncfsa
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine plural1HRd/Ncfpa
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HRd/Ncfsa
Job
two uses
As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.
- צִיָּ֤הtziyahnoun · feminine singulartagged: drought
Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
- צִיָּ֑הtziyahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a dry region
Psalms
four uses
O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
- צִיָּ֖הtziyahnoun · feminine singulartagged: dry
But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
- בַּצִּיָּֽה׃batziyahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the dry region
He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.
- בַּצִּיּ֥וֹתbatziyotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: in the dry regions
He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.
- צִ֝יָּ֗הtziyahnoun · feminine singulartagged: dry
Isaiah
three uses
The wilderness and the land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
- וְצִיָּ֑הvetziyahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and dry region
I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.
- צִיָּ֖הtziyahnoun · feminine singulartagged: dry
He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.
- צִיָּ֔הtziyahnoun · feminine singulartagged: dry
Jeremiah
three uses
They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
- צִיָּ֣הtziyahnoun · feminine singulartagged: dry
your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
- צִיָּ֥הtziyahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a desert
Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
- צִיָּ֣הtziyahnoun · feminine singulartagged: dry
Ezekiel
one use
Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
- צִיָּ֥הtziyahnoun · feminine singulartagged: dry
Hosea
one use
Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.
- צִיָּ֔הtziyahnoun · feminine singulartagged: dry
Joel
one use
The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.
- צִיָּ֣הtziyahnoun · feminine singulartagged: dry
Zephaniah
one use
And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.
- צִיָּ֖הtziyahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a dry region
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.