'Parched' in the Bible
On the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain.
brought beds, basins, pottery, wheat, barley, flour, parched grain, beans, lentils, parched seeds,
“As water evaporates from the sea,And a river becomes parched and dried up,
God makes a home for the lonely;He leads out the prisoners into prosperity,Only the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
You shed abroad a plentiful rain, O God;You confirmed Your inheritance when it was parched.
I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched;My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
I stretch out my hands to You;My soul longs for You, as a parched land. Selah.
Therefore My people go into exile for their lack of knowledge;And their honorable men are famished,And their multitude is parched with thirst.
The waters from the sea will dry up,And the river will be parched and dry.
Each will be like a refuge from the windAnd a shelter from the storm,Like streams of water in a dry country,Like the shade of a huge rock in a parched land.
“The afflicted and needy are seeking water, but there is none,And their tongue is parched with thirst;I, the Lord, will answer them Myself,As the God of Israel I will not forsake them.
For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot,And like a root out of parched ground;He has no stately form or majestyThat we should look upon Him,Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.
“Come down from your gloryAnd sit on the parched ground,O daughter dwelling in Dibon,For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you,He has ruined your strongholds.
Your mother will be greatly ashamed,She who gave you birth will be humiliated.Behold, she will be the least of the nations,A wilderness, a parched land and a desert.
“Her cities have become an object of horror,A parched land and a desert,A land in which no man livesAnd through which no son of man passes.
“But I will remove the northern army far from you,And I will drive it into a parched and desolate land,And its vanguard into the eastern sea,And its rear guard into the western sea.And its stench will arise and its foul smell will come up,For it has done great things.”
And He will stretch out His hand against the northAnd destroy Assyria,And He will make Nineveh a desolation,Parched like the wilderness.