A lack of moisture, often due to lack of rain or a period of drought, leading to vegetation drying up. Dryness is often used as a symbol of hopelessness or of the absence of God’s blessing.
The dryness of river beds
The dryness of vegetation
Ps 37:2 See also Job 8:11-12,19; Job 14:2; Job 15:30; Isa 34:4 on the day of the
Dryness indicative of desolation and hopelessness
Dryness indicating God’s withholding of moisture due to sin