Strong's #6723: tsiyah (pronounced tsee-yaw')

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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tsı̂yâh

1) dryness, drought, desert

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from an unused root meaning to parch

Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

 

Job 24:19: " Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned."
Job 30:3: "and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste."
Psalms 63:1: "thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water"
Psalms 78:17: "more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness."
Psalms 105:41: "and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river."
Psalms 107:35: "the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings."
Isaiah 35:1: "The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose."
Isaiah 41:18: "the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water."
Isaiah 53:2: "before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form"
Jeremiah 2:6: "us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land"
Jeremiah 50:12: "the hindmost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert."
Jeremiah 51:43: "Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein"
Ezekiel 19:13: "And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground."
Hosea 2:3: "and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst."
Joel 2:20: "you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face"
Zephaniah 2:13: "Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness."