Lexical Summary yabesh: dry, dried Original Word: יָבֵשׁTransliteration: yabesh Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-bashe') Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: dry, dried Meaning: dry, dried Strong's Concordance dried away, dry From yabesh; dry -- dried (away), dry. see HEBREW yabesh Brown-Driver-Briggs H3002. yabesh II. יָבֵשׁ verbal adjective or Participle dry, dried, so, masculine singular absolute Nahum 1:10 4t.; feminine singular יְבֵשָׁה Numbers 11:6; masculine plural (וִ)יבֵשִׁים 6:3; feminine plural יְבֵשׁוֺת Ezekiel 37:2, 4; — 1 dried, literal only יְבֵשִׁיס עֲנָבִים Numbers 6:3 dried grapes (P; opposed to ׳ְ לַחִים); figurative יְבֵשָׁה נַפְשֵׁנוּ 11:6 (JE) our soul (i.e. our appetite) is dried up, namely, for want of fresh, juicy meat. 2 dry, of chaff, קַשׁ Nahum 1:10 in simile of Ninevites under impending judgment; compare in figure of Job, Job 13:25; of tree Ezekiel 17:24 (figurative of Davidic house; opposed to לָ֑ךְ עֵץ), 21:3 (in prediction of Judah's devastation by Babylon, opposed to id.); Isaiah 56:3 figurative of eunuch; of the bonesin Ezekiel's vision Ezekiel 37:2, 4. |
    |