yabasha · dry land

What it means

yabasha (יַבָּשָׁה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dry land”.

What is dry: dry land, in contrast with the sea.

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. Firm ground, without water.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• dry ground ×10
• dry land ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×5
• Joshua×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jonah×3

• Genesis 1:9

  And Elohim said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry ground appear.” And it was so.

• Genesis 1:10

  And Elohim called the dry ground “Earth,” and the gathering of the waters he called “Seas.” And Elohim saw that it was good.

• Exodus 4:9

  And it will be that if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you shall take some of the water of the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”

• Exodus 14:16

  And you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and split it, so that the sons of Israel may go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.

• Exodus 14:22

  The sons of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right and on their left.

• Exodus 14:29

  But the sons of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right and on their left.

• Exodus 15:19

  For when the horses of Pharaoh went with his chariots and his horsemen into the sea, YHWH brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the sons of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.

• Joshua 4:22

  then you shall make known to your sons, saying, ‘On dry ground Israel crossed this Jordan.’

• Nehemiah 9:11

  And the sea you divided before them, and they passed through the midst of the sea on dry ground; and their pursuers you threw into the depths, like a stone into mighty waters.

• Psalms 66:6

  He turned the sea into dry land; through the river they passed on foot; there we were glad in him.

• Isaiah 44:3

  For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your offshoots.

• Jonah 1:9

  And he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear YHWH, the Elohim of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.”

• Jonah 1:13

  Then the men rowed hard to get back to the dry land, but they could not, for the sea was growing more and more stormy against them.

• Jonah 2:10

  Then YHWH spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah onto the dry land.