Lexical Summary tsiyyah: dryness, drought Original Word: צִיָּהTransliteration: tsiyyah Phonetic Spelling: (tsee-yaw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: dryness, drought Meaning: aridity, a desert Strong's Concordance barren, drought, dry land, place, solitary place, wilderness From an unused root meaning to parch; aridity; concretely, a desert -- barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness. Brown-Driver-Briggs H6723. tsiyyah צִיָּה noun feminine dryness, drought; — absolute ׳צ Hosea 2:5+; plural צִיּוֺת Psalm 105:41; — drought Job 24:19 ("" חֹם); elsewhere of land (often "" עְַרָבָה מִדְבָּר, etc.): צ ׳אֶרֶץ land of drought, desert Hosea 2:5 (simile), Jeremiah 2:6; 50:12 (figurative), 51:43; Isaiah 41:18; 53:2 (in simile), Psalm 107:35; + צָמָא Ezekiel 19:13 (figurative), + שְׁמָמָה Joel 2:20, + עָיֵף Psalm 63:2 (figurative); ׳צ =desert Isaiah 35:1; Zephaniah 2:13; Job 30:3; Psalm 78:17; plural 105:41. |