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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.
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.
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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