The meaning of “צִיָּה”
Understanding tsîyâh reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.
barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness. - aridity - concretely, a desert 1) dryness, drought, de...
צִיָּה
barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness. - aridity - concretely, a desert 1) dryness, drought, desert
Occurrences in the Bible
| Reference | Text | |
|---|---|---|
| Job 30:3 | “For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.” Word: צִיָּה (tsîyâh) | |
| Psalms 105:41 | “He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.” Word: צִיָּה (tsîyâh) | |
| Isaiah 41:18 | “I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.” Word: צִיָּה (tsîyâh) | |
| Jeremiah 50:12 | “Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.” Word: צִיָּה (tsîyâh) | |
| Ezekiel 19:13 | “And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.” Word: צִיָּה (tsîyâh) |
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