STRONGS NUMBER H6723


Word Summary
tsiyyah: dryness, drought
Original Word: צִיָּה
Transliteration: tsiyyah
Phonetic Spelling: (tsee-yaw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: dryness, drought
Meaning: aridity, a desert
Strong's Concordance
barren, drought, dry land, place, solitary place, wilderness

From an unused root meaning to parch; aridity; concretely, a desert -- barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6723. tsiyyah

צִיָּהnoun feminine dryness, drought; — absolute ׳צHosea 2:5+; plural צִיּוֺתPsalm 105:41; — drought Job 24:19 ("" חֹם‎); elsewhere of land (often "" עְַרָבָה מִדְבָּר,‎ etc.): צ ׳אֶרֶץland of drought, desert Hosea 2:5 (simile), Jeremiah 2:6; 50:12 (figurative), 51:43; Isaiah 41:18; 53:2 (in simile), Psalm 107:35; + צָמָאEzekiel 19:13 (figurative), + שְׁמָמָהJoel 2:20, + עָיֵףPsalm 63:2 (figurative); ׳צ‎ =desert Isaiah 35:1; Zephaniah 2:13; Job 30:3; Psalm 78:17; plural 105:41.