1. dry, dried up, withered — The adjective יָבֵשׁ (II) meaning 'dry, dried up, withered' — describing something that has lost its moisture, whether of land, vegetation, bones, or bodily condition. All three sense clusters are the same adjectival meaning with grammatical inflection only: S100674 covers masculine/feminine singular and plural forms (יָבֵשׁ / הַיְּבֵשׁוֹת / יְבֵשׁוֹת 'dry / the dry ones,' 7x — including Ezek 37:2 'very dry' bones, Gen 8:14 dry earth, Num 6:3 dried grapes, Josh 9:5 dry bread), S100676 is the feminine singular predicative use (יְבֵשָׁה 'is dried up,' 1x — Isa 56:3 'I am a dry tree'), and S100677 adds the conjunction (וִיבֵשִׁים 'or dried,' 1x — Num 6:3). Multilingual evidence is uniform: Arabic يَابِسَة/يَابِسًا (dry/dried), Spanish seco/seca/secas (dry), Hindi सूखा/सूखे/सूखी (dry), Korean 마른 (dry/withered), Swahili mkavu/makavu/imekauka (dry/dried up). No semantic distinction exists across these clusters. 9×
AR["الْيَابِسَةَ","وَ-يَابِسًا","يَابِسًا","يَابِسٍ","يَابِسَةٌ","يَابِسَةٍ","ٱلْيَابِسَةُ"]·ben["এবং-শুকনা","শুকনা","শুকনো","শুষ্ক"]·DE["[היבשות]","[יבש]","[יבשות]","ist-trocknete-hinauf","oder-trocknete","vertrocknete"]·EN["dry","is-dried-up","or-dried","the-dry"]·FR["[היבשות]","[יבש]","[יבשות]","desséché","est-dried-en-haut","ou-dried","יבש"]·heb["ה-יבשות","ו-יבשים","יבש","יבשה","יבשות"]·HI["और-सूखे","सुनो","सूखा","सूखी-है","सूखे"]·ID["dan-kering","kering","yang-kering"]·IT["[היבשות]","[יבש]","[יבשות]","dry","e-seccato-su","o-seccato"]·jav["garing","ingkang-garing","lan-garing"]·KO["그-마른","그리고-마른것","마른"]·PT["e-secas","os-secos","seca","secos"]·RU["дерево","и-сухой","иссохла","сухая","сухие","сухое","сухую"]·ES["los-secos,","seca","seco","secos","y-secas"]·SW["Uibshim","ilikuwa-mikavu","imekauka","makavu","mikavu","mkavu"]·TR["kuru","kurudu","kuruyan","kuruydular","ve-kuru"]·urd["اور-خشک","خشک","سوکھا-ہوں","سوکھی-ہوئی","سوکھے-کو","سوکھے-ہوئے"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† II. יָבֵשׁ adj.verb. or pt. dry, dried, so, ms. abs. Na 1:10 + 4 times; fs. יְבֵשָׁה Nu 11:6; mpl. (וִ)יבֵשִׁים Nu 6:3; fpl. יְבֵשׁוֹת Ez 37:2, 4;— 1. dried, lit. only עֲנָבִים יְבֵשִׁים Nu 6:3 dried grapes (P; opp. ע׳ לַחִים); fig. נַפְשֵׁנוּ יְבֵשָׁה 11:6 (JE) our soul (i.e. our appetite) is dried up, viz. for want of fresh, juicy meat. 2. dry, of chaff, קַשׁ Na 1:10 in sim. of Ninevites…