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quivering glow (of the air), expectation. the mirage
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
צָיוֹן
H6724
Transliteration
tsîyôwn
Pronunciation
tsee-yone'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
2
Glosses
dryness, parched ground, dry place.
Lexicon definition
a desert
Greek lexical coverage
No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry
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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.