38 occurrences

'Dry' in the Bible

For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalWicked Described AsDry PlacesPeople WitheredOaks

For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.

Verse ConceptsDangers Of IgnorancePoverty, SpiritualSuffering, Causes OfPeople Exiled

For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordDecayGrassRejection Of GodStrawRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRootsPeople RottingBurning Plants

And the Lord will make the tongue of the Egyptian sea completely dry; and with his burning wind his hand will be stretched out over the River, and it will be parted into seven streams, so that men may go over it with dry feet.

Verse ConceptsdrynessRivers And StreamsWindThe Prophecy Towards EgyptSeven ThingsGod Drying Things UpOther References To The Red SeaRiver Euphrates

The waters of Nimrim will become dry: for the grass is burned up, the young grass is coming to an end, every green thing is dead.

Verse ConceptsColors, GreendrynessGrassGrass Withered

And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste:

Verse ConceptsWaters Drying UpRiver NileRiversCauses of failure in

And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing.

Verse ConceptsReedsSmellsCanalsNature DecayingBrooks

The grass-lands by the Nile, and everything planted by the Nile, will become dry, or taken away by the wind, and will come to an end.

Verse ConceptsBooks

For in this mountain will the hand of the Lord come to rest, and Moab will be crushed down in his place, even as the dry stems of the grain are crushed under foot in the waste place.

Verse Conceptsdung and manureStrawThe Prophecy Towards EdomGod's HandTrampling PeopleDefecationGod's Hands In Opposition

When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

Verse ConceptsSympathyDullnessFirewoodGod Without Mercy

And the army of your attackers will be like small dust, and all the cruel ones like dry stems gone before the wind; suddenly it will come about.

Verse ConceptsChaffSuddenlyLight As ChaffCreatures Returning To DustProtection From EnemiesEnemy Attacksdust

And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.

Verse ConceptsRocksShadowsStormsThirstWindGod Being Our Hiding PlacePeople As RocksNo WindsBrooksshelterhidingThe Storms Of Life

And the heavens will be rolled together like the roll of a book: and all their army will be gone, like a dead leaf from the vine, or a dry fruit from the fig-tree.

Verse ConceptsdrynessAstronomyHost Of HeavenScrollsSkyStarsVinesFigsThe Universe DestroyedNature DecayingAffecting Sun Moon And StarsLucifer

Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places.

Verse ConceptsLeapingCripplesLamenessTonguePeople JumpingRunning Water From GodDumbnessRenewedDumbDeserts Used FigurativelyDeer Etc.Deerjumping

And the burning sand will become a pool, and the dry earth springs of waters: the fields where the sheep take their food will become wet land, and water-plants will take the place of grass.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual RenewalGrassPapyrusReedsPoolsMetaphorical Springs

I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

Verse ConceptsdrynessWaterPeople Drying Things Upbridges

The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of LifeFlowersThe Holy Spirit In CreationGrass WitheredMere Men

They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of GodRootsWhirlwindsPeople WitheredMetaphorical Planting

Who sent out from the east one who is right wherever he goes? he gives the nations into his hands, and makes him ruler over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as dry stems before the wind to his bow.

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfGod's Activity In The NationsChaffOut Of The EastLight As Chaff

See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills like dry stems.

Verse ConceptsTeethThreshingMountains Removed

The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.

Verse ConceptsThe Needydrought, physicalPrayer, God's Promises ConcerningTongueGod And The PoorAnswered PromisesSeeking WaterGod Not ForsakingWater, As A Symbol Of Affliction

I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual RenewalBarren, LandPoolsRunning Water From GodRivers As Places Of PrayerRiversChristmas TreeChange And Growthlakes

I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.

Verse ConceptsdrynessGod Drying Things Up

See, I am doing a new thing; now it is starting; will you not take note of it? I will even make a way in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country.

Verse ConceptsTravelling With GodLife, Of FaithNewnessBlessing In The WildernessMaking RoadsRiversFuture Plansa new beginningNew BeginningsA New DayPathsNew

The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself:

Verse ConceptsHonorWaterBlessing In The WildernessGod Providing WaterWild Beasts SubduedOstriches

Who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will make your rivers dry:

Verse ConceptsWaters Drying UpGod Drying Things UpDeep Seas

Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.

Verse ConceptsCoal, Uses OfBurning PeopleSaving Oneself

Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry mountain-tops.

Verse ConceptsComing Out Of DarknessGod Freeing Captives

Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.

Verse ConceptsdrynessProvidenceRebukeSeaThe Shortness Of TimeGod's WeaknessGod Drying Things UpNo One AvailableOthers Not Answering

For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.

Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, TheHorticultureJoy, Of IsraelLand, Spiritual Aspects OfRuinsThanksgivingAfflictions, Consolation DuringArchaeologyEdenWaste Places RestoredBlessing In The WildernessThose Singing PraiseGod Will ComfortFree Of ChargeGardensPeace And ComfortzionFinding Comfort In God

Did you not make the sea dry, the waters of the great deep? did you not make the deep waters of the sea a way for the Lord's people to go through?

Verse ConceptsdrynessStrength, DivineGod Drying Things UpMaking RoadsA Way Through The Red SeaThe Sea DividedDeep SeasThe SeaOvercoming Obstaclesfootprintsredeemed

For his growth was like that of a delicate plant before him, and like a root out of a dry place: he had no grace of form, to give us pleasure;

Verse ConceptsRiddlesTendernessProphecies Concerning ChristMessianic PropheciesGrowing UpDry PlacesNo BeautyAppearances ofChrist's Naturedignity

And let not the man from a strange country, who has been joined to the Lord, say, The Lord will certainly put a division between me and his people: and let not the unsexed man say, See, I am a dry tree.

For this cause says the Lord God, My servants will have food, but you will be in need of food: my servants will have drink, but you will be dry: my servants will have joy, but you will be shamed:

Verse ConceptsThirstBeing UnsatisfiedFamine Coming From GodYou Will Rejoice In Salvationhunger

Bible Theasaurus

Craving (27 instances)
Dried (83 instances)
Embalm (4 instances)
Feeble (165 instances)
Slack (23 instances)

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain