יָבֵשׁ
yâbêsh · yaw-bashe'
to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
- to be ashamed, confused or disappointed
- also, (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: be ashamed, clean, be confounded, (make) dry (up), (do) shame(-fully), [idiom] utterly, wither (away).
Letters
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the hand that works › the house, what is within › to consume, to destroy
The hand that works of the house, what is within that works to consume, to destroy.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of יָבֵשׁ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
59 occurrences · 59 OT · 0 NT · 51 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- is confounded6 · 13%
- dried up5 · 10%
- is dried up4 · 8%
- and drieth up2 · 4%
- are dried up2 · 4%
- and withered2 · 4%
- wither2 · 4%
- withereth2 · 4%
- and i will dry up2 · 4%
- shall wither2 · 4%
- shall dry up2 · 4%
- were they ashamed2 · 4%
- shall be confounded2 · 4%
- is withered away2 · 4%
- shall be dried up1 · 2%
- and they dry up1 · 2%
- against him, dried up1 · 2%
- thou hast shamed1 · 2%
- unto you; but now, behold, it is dry1 · 2%
- was dry1 · 2%
- had dried up1 · 2%
- it withereth1 · 2%
- which he dried up1 · 2%
- dried1 · 2%
- were dried up1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.