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Strong's H3001 יָבֵשׁ (yabesh)

Yabesh means “be ashamed” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G3001 — lachanon (“herb”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H3001
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 63
Books 17

Strong's H3001 Quick Answer

Strong's H3001 יָבֵשׁ (yabesh) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. yabesh (yaw-bashe') v. 1. to be ashamed, confused or disappointed 2. (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage) It has 63 linked Bible usages across 17 books. Visible English usage signals include dry, withered, confounded, wither, and withereth. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
yabesh (yaw-bashe') v. 1. to be ashamed, confused or disappointed 2. (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
Usage
63 linked usages
Books
17 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
dry, withered, confounded, wither, and withereth

Meaning and Definition

yabesh (yaw-bashe') v. 1. to be ashamed, confused or disappointed 2. (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage) [a primitive root] KJV: be ashamed, clean, be confounded, (make) dry (up), (do) shame(-fully), X utterly, wither (away).

Original Word
יָבֵשׁ
Transliteration
yabesh
Derivation
Root: יבשׁ
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H3001. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to wither

Usage: 1) to make dry, wither, be dry, become dry, be dried up, be withered 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be dry, be dried up, be without moisture 1a2) to be dried up 1b) (Piel) to make dry, dry up 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to dry up, make dry 1c1a) to dry up (water) 1c1b) to make dry, wither 1c1c) to exhibit dryness

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How Strong's H3001 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render yabesh, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

dry Joshua 9:5 10× withered Psalms 102:4 confounded Jeremiah 10:14 wither Isaiah 19:7 withereth Job 8:12 waters Joshua 4:23 ashamed Isaiah 30:5 fail Job 14:11 water Joshua 2:10 clean Zechariah 11:17 dried Genesis 8:7 faileth Isaiah 15:6

How Strong's H3001 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 63 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H3001 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H3001 in the Old Testament

63 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 8:7 KJV

And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

Genesis 8:14 KJV

And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

Joshua 2:10 KJV

For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.

Usage Excerpts

First 63 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3001.

Genesis 8:7 Old Testament, KJV
And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Genesis 8:14 Old Testament, KJV
And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
Joshua 2:10 Old Testament, KJV
For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
Joshua 4:23 Old Testament, KJV
For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
Joshua 5:1 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
Joshua 9:5 Old Testament, KJV
And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
Joshua 9:12 Old Testament, KJV
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:
2 Samuel 19:5 Old Testament, KJV
And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;
1 Kings 13:4 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.
1 Kings 17:7 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
Job 8:12 Old Testament, KJV
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
Job 12:15 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
Job 14:11 Old Testament, KJV
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
Job 15:30 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Job 18:16 Old Testament, KJV
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
Psalms 22:15 Old Testament, KJV
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Psalms 74:15 Old Testament, KJV
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
Psalms 90:6 Old Testament, KJV
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Psalms 102:4 Old Testament, KJV
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
Psalms 102:11 Old Testament, KJV
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Psalms 129:6 Old Testament, KJV
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
Proverbs 17:22 Old Testament, KJV
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Isaiah 15:6 Old Testament, KJV
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
Isaiah 19:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
Isaiah 19:7 Old Testament, KJV
The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
Isaiah 27:11 Old Testament, KJV
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Isaiah 30:5 Old Testament, KJV
They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
Isaiah 40:7 Old Testament, KJV
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
Isaiah 40:8 Old Testament, KJV
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Isaiah 40:24 Old Testament, KJV
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
Isaiah 42:15 Old Testament, KJV
I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
Isaiah 44:27 Old Testament, KJV
That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
Jeremiah 6:15 Old Testament, KJV
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 8:12 Old Testament, KJV
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 10:14 Old Testament, KJV
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Jeremiah 12:4 Old Testament, KJV
How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
Jeremiah 23:10 Old Testament, KJV
For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
Jeremiah 46:24 Old Testament, KJV
The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
Jeremiah 48:1 Old Testament, KJV
Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.
Jeremiah 48:20 Old Testament, KJV
Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,
Jeremiah 50:2 Old Testament, KJV
Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
Jeremiah 50:38 Old Testament, KJV
A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
Jeremiah 51:17 Old Testament, KJV
Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Jeremiah 51:36 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
Lamentations 4:8 Old Testament, KJV
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Ezekiel 17:9 Old Testament, KJV
Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
Ezekiel 17:10 Old Testament, KJV
Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.
Ezekiel 17:24 Old Testament, KJV
And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.
Ezekiel 19:12 Old Testament, KJV
But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
Ezekiel 37:11 Old Testament, KJV
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
Hosea 2:5 Old Testament, KJV
For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
Hosea 9:16 Old Testament, KJV
Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
Joel 1:10 Old Testament, KJV
The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
Joel 1:12 Old Testament, KJV
The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Joel 1:17 Old Testament, KJV
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
Joel 1:20 Old Testament, KJV
The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
Amos 1:2 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
Amos 4:7 Old Testament, KJV
And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
Jonah 4:7 Old Testament, KJV
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
Nahum 1:4 Old Testament, KJV
He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
Zechariah 10:5 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
Zechariah 10:11 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.
Zechariah 11:17 Old Testament, KJV
Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3001, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 5 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
Job 5 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 6 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 10 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 12 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Old Testament
Ezekiel 5 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 2 usages, Old Testament
Joel 4 usages, Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Old Testament
Jonah 1 usage, Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 3 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H3001 FAQ

What does yabesh (יָבֵשׁ) mean?

Yabesh (Strong's H3001) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "be ashamed". yabesh (yaw-bashe') v. 1. to be ashamed, confused or disappointed 2. (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)

How many times is yabesh (יָבֵשׁ) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 63 linked usages for Strong's H3001 across 17 books.

Where can I study yabesh (יָבֵשׁ) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3001 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate yabesh (יָבֵשׁ)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as dry, withered, confounded, wither, withereth, and waters. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.