'Dry' in the Bible

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was dry.

And she said, We have a great store of dry grass and cattle-food, and there is room for you.

Then the man came into the house, and Laban took their cords off the camels and gave them dry grass and food, and he gave to him and the men who were with him water for washing their feet.

Then they stretched out the richly-embroidered tunic to dry, and brought it to their father. "We've found this," they reported. "Look at it and see if this is or isn't your son's tunic."

And then I saw seven other heads, dry, thin, and wasted by the east wind, coming up after them:

The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food.

And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.

Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as you have been doing; let them go and get the material for themselves.

And the overseers of the people and their responsible men went out and said to the people, Pharaoh says, I will give you no more dry stems.

Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less.

So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems.

And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.

They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong.

Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.

But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.

And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass.

For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.

And if you give a meal offering of first-fruits to the Lord, give, as your offering of first-fruits, new grain, made dry with fire, crushed new grain.

And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another.

Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.

You are to have honest balances, honest weights, an honest dry measure, and an honest liquid measure; I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

And you may take no bread or dry grain or new grain for food till the very day on which you have given the offering for your God: this is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living

from wine and strong drink he doth keep separate; vinegar of wine, and vinegar of strong drink he doth not drink, and any juice of grapes he doth not drink, and grapes moist or dry he doth not eat;

and now our soul is dry, there is not anything, save the manna, before our eyes.'

Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;

You must not have two differing dry measures in your house, a larger and a smaller.

You must have a full and honest weight, a full and honest dry measure, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt, thinking, ‘I will have peace even though I follow my own stubborn heart.’ This will lead to the destruction of the well-watered land as well as the dry land.

For we have had news of how the Lord made the Red Sea dry before you when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, on the other side of Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you gave up to the curse.

And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.

And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before.

Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

For the Lord your God made the waters of Jordan dry before you till you had gone across, as he did to the Red Sea, drying it up before us till we had gone across:

Now when the news came to all the kings of the Amorites on the west side of Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites living by the sea, how the Lord had made the waters of Jordan dry before the children of Israel, till they had gone across, their hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.

And on the day after the Passover, they had for their food the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and dry grain on the same day.

And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.

This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:

Achsah answered, “Give me a blessing; since you have given me the [dry] land of the Negev (South country), give me springs of water, too.” So he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

And she said to him, Give me a blessing; because you have put me in a dry south-land, now give me springs of water. So Caleb gave her the higher spring and the lower spring.

Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.

And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.

And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

And Samson said to her, If seven new bow-cords which have never been made dry are knotted round me, I will become feeble and will be like any other man.

So the chiefs of the Philistines gave her seven new bow-cords which had never been made dry, and she had them tightly knotted round him.

But we have dry grass and food for our asses, as well as bread and wine for me, and for the woman, and for the young man with us: we have no need of anything.

And at meal-time Boaz said to her, Come here, and take some of the bread, and put your bit into the wine. And she took her seat among the grain-cutters: and he gave her dry grain, and she took it, and there was more than enough for her meal.

And Jesse said to his son David, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dry grain and these ten cakes of bread, and go quickly with them to the tents to your brothers;

And they went back and came to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the waste land of Maon, in the dry land south of the waste land.

Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses.

And they gave him part of a cake of figs and some dry grapes; and after the food, his spirit came back to him, for he had had no food or drink for three days and nights.

And he gave to every man and woman among all the people, among all the masses of Israel, a cake of bread and a measure of wine and a cake of dry grapes. Then all the people went away, every man to his house.

And when David had gone a little way past the top of the slope, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, came to him, with two asses on which were two hundred cakes of bread and a hundred stems of dry grapes and a hundred summer fruits and a skin of wine.

Came with beds and basins and pots, and grain and meal, and all sorts of dry foods,

The food of Solomon for one day was thirty dry measures of choice meal and sixty dry measures of flour;

And they took grain and dry grass for the horses and the carriage-horses, to the right place, every man as he was ordered.

Then Solomon gave to Hiram twenty thousand dry measures of wheat [as] food for his household, and twenty dry measures of {specially prepared olive oil}; thus Solomon gave to Hiram year by year.

And take with you ten cakes of bread and dry cakes and a pot of honey, and go to him: he will give you word of what is to become of the child.

Now after a time the stream became dry, because there was no rain in the land.

for this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘The flour jar will not become empty and the oil jug will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the surface of the land.”

The flour jar did not become empty, and the oil jug did not run dry, according to the word of the Lord He had spoken through Elijah.

And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.

He said, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Make this valley (the Arabah) full of trenches.’

The king of Assyria sent his commanding general, the chief eunuch, and the chief adviser from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, along with a large army. They went up and arrived at Jerusalem. They went and stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth.

I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.

And he gave to everyone, every man and woman of Israel, a cake of bread, some meat, and a cake of dry grapes.

Now see, I will provide twenty thousand dry measures of crushed wheat, twenty thousand dry measures of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil to the woodcarvers and those who cut timber."

And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.

When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

While still uncut shoots,they would dry up quicker than any other plant.

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

“Though its roots grow old in the groundAnd its stump dies in the dry soil,

As water disappears from the seaand a river becomes parched and dry,

He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

His roots below dry up,and his branches above wither away.

How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

As dry ground and heat snatch away the melted snow,so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

Emaciated from poverty and hunger,they gnawed the dry land,the desolate wasteland by night.

so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.

The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems.

The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.

For day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My vigor was changed into [the] dry heat of summer. Selah

For they will quickly dry up like grass, and wither away like plants.

My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God?

Before your pots can feel [the heat of] a thornbush, whether green [or] {dry}, he will sweep it away.

{A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.} O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

Before him bow do the inhabitants of the dry places, And his enemies lick the dust.

Thou hast broken the heads of leviathan, Thou makest him food, For the people of the dry places.