צִיָּה

Job 24:19 צִיָּ֤ה drought

As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

Job 30:3 צִיָּ֑ה a dry region

Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.

Psalm 63:1 צִיָּ֖ה dry

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.

Here: 'Dryness'. Together with the previous word it means a land of drought, a parched desert country.

Psalm 78:17 בַּצִּיָּֽה׃ in the dry region

But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

Psalm 105:41 בַּצִּיּ֥וֹת in the dry regions

He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.

Here: 'In the dry places': the preposition 'in', the article 'the', and the plural of ṣiyyāh, 'drought, parched ground'. The plural suggests stretches of waterless country, the land of thirst, which is exactly where a river should not be.

Psalm 107:35 צִ֝יָּ֗ה dry

He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.

Here: Ground baked dry, with no water source of its own. Psalm 63:1 uses it for 'a dry and weary land where there is no water'.

Isaiah 35:1 וְצִיָּ֑ה and [the] dry region

The wilderness and the dry land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.

Here: 'And the parched land': ground defined by its lack of water. It pairs with midbar to describe one landscape from two angles, uncultivated and waterless.

Isaiah 41:18 צִיָּ֖ה dry

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.

Here: Parched, arid ground. The same phrase is used in Ps 63:1: 'a dry and weary land where there is no water'.

Isaiah 53:2 צִיָּ֔ה dry

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.

Here: 'Of dryness', meaning parched, desert ground (compare Isa 35:1 and 41:18). Nothing healthy is expected to grow there, so the plant is stunted and unpromising.

Jeremiah 2:6 צִיָּ֣ה dry

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?’

Here: Parched ground with no water at all, the thirst land of Deut 8:15 and Ps 63:1.

Jeremiah 50:12 צִיָּ֥ה a desert

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 צִיָּ֣ה dry

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 צִיָּ֥ה dry

Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

Hosea 2:3 צִיָּ֔ה dry

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.

Here: "Of dryness": waterless, parched ground (Ps 63:1, "a dry and weary land"). It names the exact failure a farming people dreaded most: no rain.

Joel 2:20 צִיָּ֣ה dry

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.

Here: Waterless steppe or desert, which for Judah meant the wilderness to the south and southeast. It is a place where nothing can feed.

Zephaniah 2:13 צִיָּ֖ה a dry region

And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.

Here: Waterless ground. It stands next to 'desolation' to describe it further, and it is ironic: Nineveh was famous for its river, canals, aqueduct and irrigated gardens.