Drought
Bible Usage:
- drought used 10 times.
- First Reference: Genesis 31:40
- Last Reference: Haggai 1:11
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1226 Used 1 time
- H2721 Used 3 times
- H2725 Used 1 time
- H6710 Used 1 time
- H6723 Used 2 times
- H6774 Used 1 time
- H8514 Used 1 time
From the middle of May to about the middle of August the land of Palestine is dry. It is then the "drought of summer" (Genesis 31:40; Psalms 32:4), and the land suffers (Deuteronomy 28:23- Psalms 102:4), vegetation being preserved only by the dews (Haggai 1:11). (See DEW.)
General references
Genesis 31:40; Genesis 11:17; Jeremiah 14:1-6
Sent by God as a judgment
Deuteronomy 28:23-24; 1 Kings 8:35; 2 Chronicles 6:26; 2 Chronicles 7:13; Hosea 13:15
Famine; Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena; Rain
Figurative
Psalms 32:4; Isaiah 44:3
DROUGHT. [See Drouth.]
DROUGHTINESS, noun Drouthiness.
DROUGHTY, adjective Drouthy.
Bible Usage:
- drought used 10 times.
- First Reference: Genesis 31:40
- Last Reference: Haggai 1:11
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1226 Used 1 time
- H2721 Used 3 times
- H2725 Used 1 time
- H6710 Used 1 time
- H6723 Used 2 times
- H6774 Used 1 time
- H8514 Used 1 time