צִיָּה tsîyâh

Meaning

aridity; concretely, a desert

In the King James Version: barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness.

Derivation: from an unused root meaning to parch;

Where it is used

• Job 24:19 As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.
• Job 30:3 Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
• Psalms 63:1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
• Psalms 78:17 But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
• Psalms 105:41 He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.
• Psalms 107:35 He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.
• Isaiah 35:1 The wilderness and the dry land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
• Isaiah 41:18 I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.
• Isaiah 53:2 He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.
• Jeremiah 2:6 They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
• Jeremiah 50:12 your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
• Jeremiah 51:43 Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
• Ezekiel 19:13 Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
• Hosea 2:3 Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.
• Joel 2:20 The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.
• Zephaniah 2:13 And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.