Dictionary of Bible Themes A lack of moisture, often due to lack of rain or a period of drought, leading to vegetation drying up. Dryness is often used as a symbol of hopelessness or of the absence of God's blessing. Genesis 8:13-14The dryness of river beds See also Evaporation and recession of floodwaters Genesis 8:1-11Joshua 4:23 See also God's drying up of rivers to allow his people to cross Exodus 14:10-31Joshua 2:10; 3:1-17; 5:1 Psalms 106:7-11 Isaiah 11:15; 51:10 1 Kings 17:7 See also Other instances of rivers drying up 2 Kings 19:24Psalms 74:15 Isaiah 15:6; 19:4-10; 42:15; 44:24-27; 50:2 pp Isa 37:25 Jeremiah 48:34; 51:36Ezekiel 30:12 Joel 1:20 Nahum 1:4 Psalms 37:2 The dryness of vegetation See also Job 8:11-12,19; 14:2; 15:30Isaiah 34:4 Isaiah 40:7-8 Jeremiah 8:13; 12:4 on the day of the LORD Ezekiel 19:10-14Hosea 9:16 Matthew 13:3-6 pp Mk 4:2-6 Matthew 21:19-20pp Lk 8:4-6 the parable of the sower pp Mk 11:20-21 the fig-tree withers Ezekiel 37:11Physical dryness See also Psalms 102:4,11Proverbs 17:22 Zechariah 11:17 Joel 1:12 Dryness indicative of desolation and hopelessness See also Isaiah 24:7; 33:9Jeremiah 23:10 Joel 1:10,17 Zechariah 9:5; 10:11 Deuteronomy 28:22-24 Dryness indicating God's withholding of moisture due to sin 1 Kings 8:35-36See also 4236 fountain4293 water 4815 drought 4826 fire 4844 rain 5580 thirst 7221 exodus, the 7227 flood, the |
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