צִיָּה
drought
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 14 times (88%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (6%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (6%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 16 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6723 appears — 16 distinct verses across 8 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Job 2 verses
Psalms 4 verses
- Psalms 63:1 צִיָּ֖ה n c fs 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.
- Psalms 78:17 בַּ/צִּיָּֽה prep det + n c fs Yet they still went on to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
- Psalms 105:41 בַּ/צִּיּ֥וֹת prep det + n c fp He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.
- Psalms 107:35 צִ֝יָּ֗ה n c fs He turns a desert into a pool of water, And a dry land into water springs.
Isaiah 3 verses
- Isaiah 35:1 וְ/צִיָּ֑ה conj + n c fs The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
- Isaiah 41:18 צִיָּ֖ה n c fs I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs 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 צִיָּ֔ה n c fs For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he has no form nor comeliness; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Jeremiah 3 verses
- Jeremiah 2:6 צִיָּ֣ה n c fs Neither said they, 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 none passed through, and where no man lived?
- Jeremiah 50:12 צִיָּ֥ה n c fs your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
- Jeremiah 51:43 צִיָּ֣ה n c fs Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.
Ezekiel 1 verse
Hosea 1 verse
Joel 1 verse
Zephaniah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“drought” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun ציה (tsîyâh). Where the King James Version says “dry,” newer translations reach for “dryness” (unfoldingWord Literal Text); the renderings breakdown has the detail. It appears 16 verses across 8 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Psalms. First canonically at Job 24:19, it enters the text early. See the sense tree, 16-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6723 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,752
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,752 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 16 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 16 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 10 verses · 63%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 6 verses · 38%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Dry 6×, Drought 2×, Wilderness 2×
- American Standard Version: Dry 6×, Drought 2×, Dry land 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Dry 7×, Dry land 3×, Desert 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Dryness 5×, Desert 2×, Drought 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6723 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6723 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6723 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6723 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- dryness, drought, desert
Word origin
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.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to parch
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H6723 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| צִיָּ֣ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 2:6 | 3 |
| צִיָּ֖ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 41:18 | 3 |
| צִיָּ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Hosea 2:3 | 2 |
| צִיָּ֥ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 19:13 | 2 |
| בַּ/צִּיּ֥וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Psalms 105:41 | 1 |
| בַּ/צִּיָּֽה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 78:17 | 1 |
| וְ/צִיָּ֑ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 35:1 | 1 |
| צִ֝יָּ֗ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 107:35 | 1 |
| צִיָּ֑ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Job 30:3 | 1 |
| צִיָּ֤ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Job 24:19 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6723, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 13 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 16 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
