tsiya · drought, dry land

What it means

tsiya (צִיָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “drought, dry land”.

Dryness; dry land, desert.

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. Dry land, without water.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• dry ×14
• Drought ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Job×2
• Psalms×4
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1
• Joel×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Job 24:19

  Drought and heat seize the waters of snow; Sheol, those who have sinned.

• Job 30:3

  Through want and famine they are barren; they gnaw the dry land, last night desolation and ruin.

• Psalms 63:1

  A psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. Elohim, my El are you; I seek you earnestly; my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you, in a land dry and weary, without water.

• Psalms 78:17

  But they went on still sinning against him, rebelling against Elyon in the dry land.

• Psalms 105:41

  He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; they flowed in the dry places like a river.

• Psalms 107:35

  He turns a wilderness into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water.

• Isaiah 35:1

  The wilderness and the dry land will be glad, and the Arabah will rejoice and blossom like the narcissus.

• Isaiah 41:18

  I will open on the bare heights rivers, and in the midst of the broad valleys springs; I will make the wilderness into a pool of water, and dry land into outlets of water.

• Isaiah 53:2

  And he grew up like a young shoot before him, and like a root from a dry land; he had no form nor majesty that we should look at him, nor appearance that we should desire him.

• Jeremiah 2:6

  And they did not say, ‘Where is YHWH, who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of steppe and pits, through a land of drought and the shadow of death, through a land through which no man passed and where no human being lived?’

• Jeremiah 50:12

  your mother is greatly put to shame; she who bore you is abashed. Look, the last of the nations: a wilderness, a dry land, and a steppe.

• Jeremiah 51:43

  Her cities have become a horror, a dry land and a steppe, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.

• Ezekiel 19:13

  And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a land dry and thirsty.

• Hosea 2:3

  or else I will strip her naked and set her out as on the day she was born, and make her like the wilderness, and leave her like a land that is dry, and kill her with thirst.

• Joel 2:20

  And the northerner I will remove far from you, and I will drive him into a land dry and desolate, his front toward the eastern sea, and his rear toward the western sea; and his stench will go up, and his foul smell will go up, for he has done great things.

• Zephaniah 2:13

  And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and he will make Nineveh a desolation, dry as the wilderness.