Yavesh יָבֵשׁ

Yavesh (Hebrew יָבֵשׁ, Strong's H3002) is a Hebrew adjective meaning “dry”. It occurs 10 times in 10 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Yavesh, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Numbers

• Numbers 6:3
  He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.
• Numbers 11:6
  But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!”

Job

• Job 13:25
  Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?

Isaiah

• Isaiah 56:3
  Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”

Lamentations

• Lamentations 4:8
  Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 17:24
  And all the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken and have done it.Then all the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I bring the tall tree down and make the low tree tall. I dry up the green tree and make the withered tree flourish. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I have done it.’”
• Ezekiel 20:47
  And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.Say to the forest of the Negev: Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to ignite in you a fire, and it will devour all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and by it every face from south to north will be scorched.
• Ezekiel 37:2
  And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.He led me all around among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, and indeed, they were very dry.
• Ezekiel 37:4
  Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.And He said to me, “Prophesy concerning these bones and tell them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!

Nahum

• Nahum 1:10
  For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).