Strong's Lexicon

H3002

H3002 — יָבֵשׁ

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

HebrewyabeshadjectiveOccurrences: 9TWOT: 837a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H3002
Word:יָבֵשׁ
Part of Speech:adjective
Etymology:from H3001
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:9
Transliteration:yabesh
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:yaw-bashe'
Meaning:1. dry
KJV Renderings:dried (away), dry.

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II. יָבֵשׁ verbal adjective or participle dry, dried, so, masculine singular absolute Nah 1:10 + 4 t.; feminine singular יְבֵשָׁה Num 11:6 masculine plural (וִ)יבֵשִׁים Num 6:3 feminine plural יְבֵשׁוֺת Ezek 37:2; Ezek 37:4

1. dried, literal only עֲנָבִים יְבֵשִׁיס Num 6:3 dried grapes ( P ; opposed to לַחִים ׳ ְ); figurative נַפְשֵׁנוּ יְבֵשָׁה Num 11:6 ( J E ) our soul (i.e. our appetite) is dried up, namely, for want of fresh, juicy meat.
2. dry, of chaff, קַשׁ Nah 1:10 in simile of Ninevites under impending judgment; compare in figure of Job, Job 13:25 of tree Ezek 17:24 (figurative of Davidic house; opposed to עֵץ לָ֑ךְ), Ezek 21:3 (in prediction of Judah's devastation by Babylon, opposed to id.); Isa 56:3 figurative of eunuch; of the bonesin Ezekiel's vision Ezek 37:2; Ezek 37:4.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

יבש (yah-vehsh’)

Joshua 9:5

KJV: And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
EHCC: their jision was (and

Job 14:11

KJV: As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
EHCC: flood decayeth and drieth up:

Psalms 22:15

KJV: My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
EHCC: (16).My strength is dried up like a pot-

Psalms 90:6

KJV: In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
EHCC: it is cut down, and withereth. .

Psalms 199:6

EHCC: which withereth afore it groweth

Isaiah 15:6

KJV: For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.desolate: Heb. desolations
EHCC: for the hay is withered away,

Isaiah 19:5

KJV: And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
EHCC: shall be wasted and dried up.

Isaiah 40:7

KJV: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
EHCC: 8. The grass withereth, the flower

Jeremiah 23:10

KJV: For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.swearing: or, cursingcourse: or, violence
EHCC: of the wilderness are dried up,

Jeremiah 50:38

KJV: A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
EHCC: and they shall be dried wp:

Lamentations 4:8

KJV: Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.blacker…: Heb. darker than blackness
EHCC: it is withered, it is become

Lamentations 19:12

EHCC: were broken and withered;

Hosea 9:16

KJV: Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.the…: Heb. the desires
EHCC: their root is dried up, they shall

Joel 1:12

KJV: The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
EHCC: trees of the field, are with ered:

Amos 1:2

KJV: And he said, The Lord will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
EHCC: and the top of Carmel shall wither.

Genesis 8:7

KJV: And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.to…: Heb. in going forth and returning
EHCC: until the waters were dried up

Isaiah 27:11

KJV: When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
EHCC: When the boughs thereof are withered.

Ezekiel 17:10

KJV: Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.
EHCC: shall it not séterly wither, (lit. in wither~

Zechariah 11:17

KJV: Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
EHCC: his arm shall be clean dried up,

1 Kings 18:4

KJV: For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)Jezebel: Heb. Izebel
EHCC: And his band,...dried up,

1 Kings 17:7

KJV: And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.after…: Heb. at the end of days
EHCC: that the brook dried wp, because

Job 8:12

KJV: Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
EHCC: it withereth before any (other) herb.

Job 12:15

KJV: Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
EHCC: the waters, end they dy up:

Job 18:16

KJV: His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
EHCC: His roots shall be dried up

Psalms 102:4

KJV: My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
EHCC: (b) My heart is smitten, and withered

Isaiah 19:7

KJV: The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.and be…: Heb. and shall not be
EHCC: every thing sown.. wither,

Isaiah 40:24

KJV: Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
EHCC: blow upon them, and they shall wither,

Jeremiah 12:4

KJV: How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
EHCC: the herbs of every field wither,

Ezekiel 17:9

KJV: Say thou, Thus saith the Lord God; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
EHCC: it shall wither in all the leaves of

Amos 4:7

KJV: And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
EHCC: and the piece whereupon it rained not

Jonah 4:7

KJV: But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
EHCC: smote the gourd that tt withered.

Jonah 200:11

EHCC: 17. his arm be clean dried up,

Job 15:30

KJV: He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
EHCC: the flame shall dry up his branches,

Proverbs 17:22

KJV: A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.like: or, to
EHCC: a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Nahum 1:4

KJV: He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
EHCC: He rebuketh the sea, and muketh it dry,

Joshua 2:10

KJV: For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
EHCC: dried up the water of the Red sea

Joshua 4:23

KJV: For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
EHCC: God dried up the waters of Jordan

Joshua 5:1

KJV: And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
EHCC: the Lord had dried up the waters of Jordan

Psalms 74:15

KJV: Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.mighty…: Heb. rivers of strength
EHCC: thou driedst up mighty rivers.

Jeremiah 51:36

KJV: Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
EHCC: make her springs dry.

Ezekiel 17:24

KJV: And all the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken and have done it.
EHCC: 1 the Lord...have dried up the green tree,

Ezekiel 19:12

KJV: But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
EHCC: the east wind dried up her fruit:

Joel 1:10

KJV: The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
EHCC: the new wine és dried up, the

Isaiah 42:15

KJV: I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
EHCC: and dry up all their herbs ;

Isaiah 44:27

KJV: That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
EHCC: Be dry, and 7 will dry up thy rivers:
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