Strong's Hebrew · H3001
יָבֵשׁ
yâbêsh · yaw-bashe'
be ashamed, clean, be confounded, (make) dry (up), (do) shame(-fully), [idiom] utterly, wither (away).
Definition
to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 61 times in Scripture
“and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.”
“For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as He did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over.”
“No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.”
“He said: “The LORD roars from Zion and raises His voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the summit of Carmel withers.””
“By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.”
“The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.”
“The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.””
“For we have heard how the LORD dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction.”
“He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).