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צִיָּה H6723

H6723 is the Hebrew word צִיָּה, transliterated tsîyâh and said tsee-yaw'. The King James Version most often renders it dry.

Word: צִיָּהTransliteration: tsîyâhSaid: tsee-yaw'Language: HebrewIn the KJV: 15 verses

What it means

aridity; concretely, a desert.

Where it comes from

from an unused root meaning to parch.

How the King James Version translates it

Across 15 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

dry 6×drought 2×wilderness 1×dry places 1×solitary place 1×out of a dry 1×dry land 1×like a dry 1×barren 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness.

Verses using צִיָּה

All 15 verses, quoted in full.

Job 24:19 · KJV

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

Job 30:3 · KJV

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

Psalm 63:1 · KJV

O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

Psalm 105:41 · KJV

He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.

Psalm 107:35 · KJV

He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

Isaiah 35:1 · KJV

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

Isaiah 41:18 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 beauty that we should desire him.

Jeremiah 2:6 · KJV

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, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

Jeremiah 50:12 · KJV

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.

Jeremiah 51:43 · KJV

Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

Ezekiel 19:13 · KJV

And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.

Hosea 2:3 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.

Zephaniah 2:13 · KJV

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

Common questions

What does Strong's H6723 mean?

H6723 is the Hebrew word צִיָּה (tsîyâh), meaning aridity; concretely, a desert.

How is H6723 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it dry (6 times), drought (2 times), wilderness (1 time), dry places (1 time), solitary place (1 time), among others.

How many times does H6723 appear in the Bible?

צִיָּה (tsîyâh) is tagged in 15 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H6723 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: from an unused root meaning to parch.

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