יָבֵשׁ

Genesis 8:7 יְבֹ֥שֶׁת dried up

and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.

Genesis 8:14 יָבְשָׁ֖ה <it> was dry

By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.

Joshua 2:10 הוֹבִ֨ישׁ he dried up

For we have heard how the LORD dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction.

Here: "He made dry": the causative form of the verb. The sea did not simply recede; someone dried it. Joshua uses the same verb for the Jordan crossing (4:23; 5:1), deliberately linking the two water miracles.

Joshua 4:23 הוֹבִישׁ֩ הוֹבִ֥ישׁ he dried up

For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as He did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over.

Joshua 5:1 הוֹבִ֨ישׁ he had dried up

Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and their spirits failed for fear of the Israelites.

Here: A causative verb: Yahweh made the water dry. It deliberately echoes 4:23 and the drying of the Red Sea, which Rahab had already named as the news that terrified Jericho (2:10).

Joshua 9:5 יָבֵ֖שׁ it was dried up

They put worn, patched sandals on their feet and threadbare clothing on their bodies, and their whole supply of bread was dry and moldy.

Here: Dried out and hard, as bread goes stale over many days. It is the first of two words describing the bread's state.

Joshua 9:12 יָבֵ֔שׁ it has dried up

This bread of ours was warm when we packed it at home on the day we left to come to you. But look, it is now dry and moldy.

Here: 'It is dry': gone stale and hard. The exact opposite of 'hot' at the start of the verse.

1 Kings 13:4 וַתִּיבַ֤שׁ and it dried up

Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.

1 Kings 17:7 וַיִּיבַ֣שׁ and it dried up

Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

Job 8:12 יִיבָֽשׁ׃ it is dried up

While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up more quickly than grass.

Job 12:15 וְיִבָ֑שׁוּ so they may be dry

If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.

Job 14:11 וְיָבֵֽשׁ׃ and it is dry

As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,

Job 15:30 תְּיַבֵּ֣שׁ it will dry up

He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.

Here: An intensive form: will scorch dry, shrivel. Its subject is the feminine noun 'flame', which follows it.

Job 18:16 יִבָ֑שׁוּ they are dried up

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

Here: The roots dry out. The verb form describes what happens to such a man as a settled pattern rather than a single event: this is how it always goes for him. Dried roots mean no water source and no chance of regrowth.

Psalm 22:15 יָ֘בֵ֤שׁ it has dried up

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.

Here: A perfect-tense verb, 'has dried up / is dried out'. It is the word for grass withering and riverbeds drying up. It comes first in the sentence, so the dryness hits before we learn what has dried.

Psalm 74:15 ה֝וֹבַ֗שְׁתָּ you dried up

You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.

Here: This causative form means "you made dry". It is the verb Israel used for God drying up the Sea of Reeds and the Jordan (Josh 2:10; 4:23). Here it describes rivers that cannot normally be dried.

Psalm 90:6 וְיָבֵֽשׁ׃ and it dries up

in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

Psalm 102:4 וַיִּבַ֣שׁ and it has withered

My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.

Here: 'And it has dried up.' The result of the blow: sap gone, the plant shrivelled. The same root comes back in verse 11 ('I wither like grass'), tying the opening lament together.

Psalm 102:11 אִיבָֽשׁ׃ I am withering

My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

Here: "I am withering / I wither away": the verb form describes an action still under way, not a finished state. The speaker is drying out the way cut or sun-struck plants lose their moisture. The image is of strength draining away, as in illness or deep distress.

Psalm 129:6 יָבֵֽשׁ׃ it has withered

May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,

Proverbs 17:22 תְּיַבֶּשׁ־ it dries up

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Here: It makes the bones dry, the way drought withers grass. In Hebrew imagery that means draining the life and strength out of a person. The tense describes what normally happens.

Isaiah 15:6 יָבֵ֤שׁ it has dried up

The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.

Isaiah 19:5 וְיָבֵֽשׁ׃ and it will be dry

The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.

Isaiah 19:7 יִיבַ֥שׁ it will be dry

The bulrushes by the Nile, by the mouth of the river, and all the fields sown along the Nile, will wither, blow away, and be no more.

Isaiah 27:11 בִּיבֹ֤שׁ when dry up

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

Here: Preposition 'in/when' plus an infinitive: 'when (the boughs) dry out'. It pictures sap gone and wood turned brittle, the next stage after the calves have stripped the branches in v.10.

Isaiah 40:7 יָבֵ֤שׁ it dries up

The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

Isaiah 40:8 יָבֵ֥שׁ it dries up

The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”

Here: Describes grass drying out until it is brittle and dead. The verb form presents this as finished and as a general truth: grass dries up, and that is that. It repeats word for word the opening of verse 7, so the sad refrain sounds a second time before the turn.

Isaiah 40:24 וַיִּבָ֔שׁוּ and they have dried up

No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

Here: 'And they withered.' This is the same verb as in 40:7–8 ('the grass withers'), so the rulers turn out to be that grass.

Isaiah 42:15 אוֹבִ֑ישׁ אוֹבִֽישׁ׃ I will dry up

I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.

Here: 'I will make wither / dry out.' This is the picture of grass shrivelling under a hot wind (compare 40:7, 'the grass withers').

Isaiah 44:27 אוֹבִֽישׁ׃ I will make dry

who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’

Jeremiah 10:14 הֹבִ֥ישׁ he has been put to shame

Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.

Here: 'Has been put to shame / is disgraced'. This form looks like a word for 'dry up', but here it carries the sense of the word for shame (bosh). The goldsmith's hopes are publicly let down. The shame is the visible failure of what he relied on, not just an embarrassed feeling.

Jeremiah 12:4 יִיבָ֑שׁ will it be dried up

How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”

Here: “Wither / dry up”. It pairs with the first verb, and this pairing is the main reason many hear “dry up” in ʾābal as well. The main Masoretic pause falls here and closes the question.

Jeremiah 23:10 יָבְשׁ֖וּ they have become dry

For the land is full of adulterers—because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up—their course is evil and their power is misused.

Here: Completed action, 'have withered.' This is drought, and the covenant curses name drought as a penalty (Deut 28:22–24).

Jeremiah 50:38 וְיָבֵ֑שׁוּ and they will dry up

A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.

Here: "And they will dry up." The waters will fail completely. The same word appears in the drying of the Red Sea and the Jordan in Israel's stories, so a hearer might catch a reversal: water that once parted to free Israel now fails Israel's oppressor.

Jeremiah 51:36 וְהֹבַשְׁתִּ֖י and I will make dry

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.

Here: 'And I will make dry.' A near-synonym of the previous verb, repeated for emphasis. It is the same root as yabbāšâ, 'dry ground', which recalls the sea turned to dry land at the Exodus.

Ezekiel 17:9 וְיָבֵ֗שׁ תִּיבָ֔שׁ and it will wither, it will wither

So you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Will it flourish? Will it not be uprooted and stripped of its fruit so that it shrivels? All its foliage will wither! It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it up by its roots.

Ezekiel 17:10 תִּיבַ֣שׁ יָבֹ֔שׁ תִּיבָֽשׁ׃ פ will it wither, completely <to wither>, it will wither

Even if it is transplanted, will it flourish? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes? It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.’”

Ezekiel 17:24 הוֹבַ֙שְׁתִּי֙ I make dry

Then all the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I bring the tall tree down and make the low tree tall. I dry up the green tree and make the withered tree flourish. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I have done it.’”

Here: "I dried up / I wither." Causing the sap to fail, the same withering threatened against the disloyal vine in vv. 9–10.

Ezekiel 19:12 הוֹבִ֣ישׁ וְיָבֵ֛שׁוּ it dried up, and they became dry

But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them.

Here: 'Dried up' in the sense of caused to dry out. The verb is singular with the wind as its subject: the wind actively parches the fruit.

Ezekiel 37:11 יָבְשׁ֧וּ they have dried up

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

Here: Used of grass, streams and plants drying up. With bones it is a stock Hebrew image for having no life left (compare Proverbs 17:22). The verb comes first in the Hebrew for emphasis: 'Dried up are our bones!'

Hosea 9:16 יָבֵ֖שׁ it has dried up

Ephraim is struck down; their root is withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay the darlings of their wombs.

Here: 'Has dried up.' The verb for vegetation shrivelling under heat or drought. Paired with 'struck', it is the standard Hebrew picture of a plant destroyed by blight or burning wind.

Hosea 13:15 וְיֵב֤וֹשׁ and it may be withered

Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.

Here: 'And it will dry up', the result of the wind. The vowels look like the word for 'be ashamed' (bôsh), and some readers hear both senses: dried up and put to shame.

Joel 1:10 הוֹבִ֥ישׁ it has dried up

The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.

Here: 'Has dried up.' The same spelling can also come from bosh, 'to be ashamed', and Joel plays on both through vv. 10–12 (farmers 'be ashamed' in v. 11, joy 'withers/is shamed' in v. 12). The wine is both shrivelled and disgraced.

Joel 1:12 יָבֵ֔שׁוּ they have dried up

The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.

Here: The plain, unambiguous word for drying out, like wood or grass with no moisture left. Coming just before the next verb, it sets up the sound-play: dried, dried, and then joy 'dried' too.

Joel 1:17 הֹבִ֖ישׁ it has dried up

The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.

Joel 1:20 יָֽבְשׁוּ֙ they have dried up

Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.

Amos 1:2 וְיָבֵ֖שׁ and it will wither

He said: “The LORD roars from Zion and raises His voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the summit of Carmel withers.”

Here: To become dry and wither, used of plants in drought. It matches 'mourn' in the line before and makes the drought sense of that word plain.

Amos 4:7 תִּיבָֽשׁ׃ it dried up

“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.

Here: 'Would dry up.' The crop shrivels in the field. This last word carries the verse's picture of loss.

Jonah 4:7 וַיִּיבָֽשׁ׃ and it withered

When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.

Nahum 1:4 וַֽיַּבְּשֵׁ֔הוּ and he made dry it

He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.

Here: "And he dried it up." The verb form causes something to happen, and the narrative "and" makes the drying follow straight from the rebuke. The same root is used of God drying up the Red Sea and the Jordan (Josh 2:10; 4:23).

Zechariah 10:11 וְהֹבִ֕ישׁוּ and they will dry up

They will pass through the sea of distress and strike the waves of the sea; all the depths of the Nile will dry up. The pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.

Here: It recalls the "dry ground" of the Exodus crossing. In form the word is identical to a form of בּוֹשׁ, "to be put to shame", and Joel 1:10–12 plays on exactly that pair. A Hebrew hearer could catch an undertone that Egypt's river is shamed as it dries.

Zechariah 11:17 יָב֣וֹשׁ תִּיבָ֔שׁ totally <wither>, it will wither

Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered and his right eye utterly blinded!”

Here: A verb form that repeats the action for emphasis, 'drying up'. Paired with the next word it means 'it will wither away completely'.