צִיָּה
tsiy.yah (H6723)
dryness
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# צִיָּה (tsiy.yah) — Dryness in Biblical Hebrew The Hebrew word *tsiy.yah* carries the straightforward meaning of "dryness" and appears 16 times throughout the biblical text. This consistent presence, though not overwhelming in frequency, suggests that the concept held meaningful significance in the language and worldview of ancient Israel. The word describes a physical condition—the absence or depletion of moisture—rather than serving as an abstract or metaphorical concept in its core definition. Given the geographic context of ancient Israel, a land where water scarcity was a genuine concern, this term likely carried practical importance. The word's repeated use across 16 biblical passages indicates it was employed to describe observable environmental conditions that affected daily life, agriculture, and survival. The term represents neither a rare theological concept nor a common everyday word, but rather a moderately important descriptor in the biblical vocabulary for discussing natural conditions and their consequences. Without additional context about specific passages where *tsiy.yah* appears, we can conclude that biblical authors used this word to communicate about arid conditions and the material reality of dryness in their world. Its presence in the biblical lexicon reflects the lived experience of people in a semi-arid climate where water management and drought were relevant concerns.
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Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.
They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.
He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.
The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the middle of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who 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 one passed through, and where no man lived?’
your mother will be utterly disappointed. She who bore you will be confounded. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells. No son of man passes by it.
Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
But I will remove the northern army far away from you, and will drive it into a barren and desolate land, its front into the eastern sea, and its back into the western sea; and its stench will come up, and its bad smell will rise.” Surely he has done great things.
He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.