צִיִּי
tsiyi · desert dweller
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6728 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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tsiyi (צִיִּי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “desert dweller”.
One who lives in the desert: a nomad or a wild animal of the wilderness.
How to say it
tsi·yi
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
- Those who live in dry lands: nomads or wild beasts.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- desert creatures ×4
- desert dwellers ×2
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Psalms 72:9
Before him the desert dwellers will kneel, and his enemies will lick the dust.
- Psalms 74:14
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food to the people of the desert dwellers.
- Isaiah 13:21
And desert creatures will lie down there, and their houses will be filled with owls; and ostriches will dwell there, and male goats will dance there.
- Isaiah 23:13
Look, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; Assyria founded it for desert creatures; they raised their siege towers, they stripped its palaces; he made it a ruin.
- Isaiah 34:14
And desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and the male goat will call to its companion; yes, there Lilith will rest and find for herself a resting place.
- Jeremiah 50:39
Therefore desert creatures will dwell with hyenas, and ostriches will dwell in it; and it will not be inhabited again forever, nor be dwelt in from generation to generation.