yavesh · dry

What it means

yavesh (יָבֵשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dry”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Without water or sap, like straw or a dead tree.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• dry ×7
• dried ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Numbers×2
• Job×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Nahum×1

• Numbers 6:3

  he shall separate himself from wine and intoxicating drink; he shall not drink vinegar of wine or vinegar of intoxicating drink, and he shall not drink any juice of grapes, nor eat grapes, fresh or dried.

• Numbers 11:6

  But now our soul is dried up; there is nothing at all before our eyes but the manna.”

• Job 13:25

  Will you terrorize a windblown leaf, and pursue dry straw?

• Isaiah 56:3

  And let not the son of the foreigner who has joined himself to YHWH say, “YHWH will surely separate me from his people”; and let not the eunuch say, “Look, I am a dry tree.”

• Ezekiel 17:24

  And all the trees of the field will know that I, YHWH, have brought low the high tree, have made high the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made flourish the dry tree. I, YHWH, have spoken, and I will do it.’”

• Ezekiel 20:47

  And say to the forest of the Negev, ‘Hear the word of YHWH: Thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am kindling in you a fire, and it will consume in you every green tree and every dry tree; the flame of fire will not be quenched, and all faces will be scorched by it, from the Negev to the north.

• Ezekiel 37:2

  And he made me pass by them all around; and look, they were very many on the face of the plain; and look, they were very dry.

• Ezekiel 37:4

  And he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of YHWH.

• Nahum 1:10

  For they are like tangled thorns and like drunkards with their drink; they will be consumed like stubble fully dry.