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title: צִיָּה — dryness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צִיָּה (6723), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 16 times: dryness. BDB 1906: n.f. dryness, drought. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צִיָּה

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«צִיָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **dryness** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 16 times · **Key:** 6723 · **BDB:** צִיָּה

### Glosses

of.dryness (9); a.dry.region (2); a.desert (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

dryness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6723/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. dryness, drought [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6723/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. dryness, drought;—abs. צ׳ Ho 2:5 +; pl. צִיּוֹת ψ 105:41;—drought Jb 24:19 (‖ חֹם); elsewhere of land (often ‖ מִדְבָּר, עֲרָבָה, etc.): אֶרֶץ צ׳ land of drought, desert Ho 2:5 (sim.), Je 2:6; 50:12 (fig.), 51:43; Is 41:18; 53:2 (in sim.), ψ 107:35; + צָמָא Ez 19:13 (fig.), + שְׁמָמָה Jo 2:20, + עָיֵף ψ 63:2 (fig.); צ׳ = desert Is 35:1; Zp 2:13; Jb 30:3 ψ 78:17; pl. 105:41.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צִיָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6723/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 24:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.19/)

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צִיָּ֤ה גַם־חֹ֗ם יִגְזְל֥וּ מֵֽימֵי־שֶׁ֗לֶג שְׁא֣וֹל חָטָֽאוּ׃

*Word for word:* drought also heat they.snatch.away \[the\].waters of.snow Sheol \[those.who\].they.have.sinned

*JPS 1917:* Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so doth the nether-world those that have sinned.

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[Psalms 105:41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.41/)

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פָּ֣תַח צ֭וּר וַיָּז֣וּבוּ מָ֑יִם הָ֝לְכ֗וּ בַּצִּיּ֥וֹת נָהָֽר׃

*Word for word:* he.opened a.rock and they.flowed.out waters they.went in the.dry regions a.river

*JPS 1917:* He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; they ran, a river in the dry places.

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