Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
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Dry
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Hebrews 11:29
By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
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Genesis
44 verses
Exodus
76 verses
Leviticus
22 verses
Joshua
65 verses
Judges
33 verses
2 Kings
11 verses
Nehemiah
11 verses
Job
33 verses
Psalms
77 verses
Proverbs
11 verses
Isaiah
119 verses
Jeremiah
54 verses
Ezekiel
66 verses
Hosea
33 verses
Jonah
22 verses
Nahum
22 verses
Zephaniah
11 verses
Haggai
11 verses
Zechariah
11 verses
Matthew
11 verses
Luke
22 verses
Hebrews
11 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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יַבָּשָׁה
yabbâshâh · yab-baw-shaw'
10 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
dry ground
Strong's KJV usage: dry (ground, land).
Strong's first: Genesis 1:9Strong's last: Jonah 2:10
Open full H3004 profile →צִיָּה
tsîyâh · tsee-yaw'
8 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
aridity; concretely, a desert
Strong's KJV usage: barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness.
Strong's first: Psalms 63:1Strong's last: Zephaniah 2:13
Open full H6723 profile →יָבֵשׁ
yâbêsh · yaw-bashe'
7 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
dry
Strong's KJV usage: dried (away), dry.
Strong's first: Job 13:25Strong's last: Nahum 1:10
Open full H3002 profile →חָרָבָה
chârâbâh · khaw-raw-baw'
5 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
a desert
Strong's KJV usage: dry (ground, land).
Strong's first: Genesis 7:22Strong's last: Haggai 2:6
Open full H2724 profile →חָרַב
chârab · khaw-rab'
3 times translated as this KJV form40 total Strong's occurrences
to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
Strong's KJV usage: decay, (be) desolate, destroy(-er), (be) dry (up), slay, × surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 8:13Strong's last: Nahum 1:4
Open full H2717 profile →חֹרֶב
chôreb · kho'-reb
3 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
drought or desolation
Strong's KJV usage: desolation, drought, dry, heat, × utterly, waste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Judges 6:37Strong's last: Judges 6:40
Open full H2721 profile →יָבֵשׁ
yâbêsh · yaw-bashe'
3 times translated as this KJV form78 total Strong's occurrences
to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
Strong's KJV usage: be ashamed, clean, be confounded, (make) dry (up), (do) shame(-fully), × utterly, wither (away).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Joshua 9:5Strong's last: Jeremiah 51:36
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ánydros · an'-oo-dros
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
waterless, i.e. dry
Strong's KJV usage: :--dry, without water.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 12:43Strong's last: Luke 11:24
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xērós · xay-ros'
2 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
arid; by implication, shrunken, earth (as opposed to water)
Strong's KJV usage: :--dry land, withered.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 23:31Strong's last: Hebrews 11:29
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chârêb · khaw-rabe'
2 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
parched or ruined
Strong's KJV usage: desolate, dry, waste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 7:10Strong's last: Proverbs 17:1
Open full H2720 profile →יַבֶּשֶׁת
yabbesheth · yab-beh'-sheth
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
dry ground
Strong's KJV usage: dry land.
Strong's first: Exodus 4:9Strong's last: Psalms 95:5
Open full H3006 profile →בּוּשׁ
bûwsh · boosh
1 times translated as this KJV form109 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to pale, i.e. by implication to be ashamed; also (by implication) to be disappointed or delayed
Strong's KJV usage: (be, make, bring to, cause, put to, with, a-) shamed(-d), be (put to) confounded(-fusion), become dry, delay, be long.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Hosea 13:15Strong's last: Hosea 13:15
Open full H954 profile →צַח
tsach · tsakh
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
dazzling, i.e. sunny, bright, (figuratively) evident
Strong's KJV usage: clear, dry, plainly, white.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 4:11Strong's last: Jeremiah 4:11
Open full H6703 profile →צְחִיחָה
tsᵉchîychâh · tsekh-ee-khaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a parched region, i.e. the desert
Strong's KJV usage: dry land.
Strong's first: Psalms 68:6Strong's last: Psalms 68:6
Open full H6707 profile →צָמַק
tsâmaq · tsaw-mak'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to dry up
Strong's KJV usage: dry.
Strong's first: Hosea 9:14Strong's last: Hosea 9:14
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H6703
At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
no direct Strong's tag
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.
no direct Strong's tag
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.
H3001
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.
H6723
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
English meaning and historical usage.
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dry
DRY, adjective [See the Verb.]
1. Destitute of moisture; free from water or wetness; arid; not moist; as dry land; dry clothes.
2. Not rainy; free from rain or mist; as dry weather; a dry March or April.
3. Not juicy; free from juice, sap or aqueous matter; not green; as dry wood; dry stubble; dry hay; dry leaves.
4. Without tears; as dry eyes; dry mourning.
5. Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry
6. Thirsty; craving drink.
7. Barren; jejune; plain; unembellished; destitute of pathos, or of that which amuses and interests; as a dry style; a dry subject; a dry discussion.
8. Severe; sarcastic; wiping; as a dry remark or repartee; a dry run.
9. Severe; wiping; as a dry blow; a dry basting. See the verb, which signifies properly to wipe, rub, scour.
10. dry goods, in commerce, cloths, stuffs, silks, laces, ribbons, etc., in distinction from groceries.
DRY, verb transitive [G., to dry to wipe; Gr., Latin See dry The primary sense is to wipe, rub, scour.]
1. To free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; originally by wiping, as to dry the eyes; to exsiccate.
2. To deprive of moisture by evaporation or exhalation; as, the sun dries a cloth; wind dries the earth.
3. To deprive of moisture by exposure to the sun or open air. We dry cloth in the sun.
4. To deprive of natural juice, sap or greenness; as, to dry hay or plants.
5. To scorch or parch with thirst; with up.
Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Isaiah 5:1.
6. To deprive of water by draining; to drain; to exhaust; as, to dry a meadow.
To dry up, to deprive wholly of water.
DRY, verb intransitive
1. To grow dry; to lose moisture; to become free from moisture or juice. The road dries fast in a clear windy day. Hay will dry sufficiently in two days.
2. To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; sometimes with up; as, the stream dries or dries up.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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