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Parched ground

(Isa. 35:7), Heb. This unified study connects 3 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Historical Reference: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
  • Historical Reference: Installed reference work
  • Historical Reference: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H8273, H6724
Hebrew
שָׁרָב · shârâb

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

שָׁרָב

H8273
Transliteration
shârâb
Pronunciation
shaw-rawb'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
2

Glosses

heat, parched ground.

Lexicon definition

quivering glow (of the air), expectation. the mirage

Greek lexical coverage

No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry

G—

The installed lexicons do not contain a sufficiently exact Greek word-level match for this study. UNLEARN leaves this language unassigned instead of displaying an unrelated Strong’s record.

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Parched ground

(Isa. 35:7), Heb. sharab, a "mirage", a phenomenon caused by the refraction of the rays of the sun on the glowing sands of the desert, causing them suddenly to assume the appearance of a beautiful lake. It is called by the modern Arabs by the same Hebrew name serab.

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) · View data sources

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