His hand dried up, his hand stiffened/ his hand was paralysed
His hand became paralyzed. It stiffened up, and he could not move it.
("And when King Jeroboam heard the word of the man of God, who had called out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, 'Seize him!' But his hand, which he had stretched out against him, dried up, and he could not draw it back to him" - 1 Kings 13:4, said about Jeroboam when he was commanded to seize the man of God)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
יָבְשָׁה יָדוֹ, הִתְיַיבְּשָׁה לוֹ הַיָּד
Definition (Hebrew)
יָדוֹ הִשְׁתַּתְּקָה. יָדוֹ הִתְאַבְּנָה. לֹא יָכֹל לְהָזִיז אֶת יָדוֹ.
("וַיְהִי כִשְׁמֹעַ הַמֶּלֶךְ אֶת דְּבַר אִישׁ הָאֱלֹהִים אֲשֶׁר קָרָא עַל הַמִּזְבֵּחַ בְּבֵית אֵל, וַיִּשְׁלַח יָרָבְעָם אֶת יָדוֹ מֵעַל הַמִּזְבֵּחַ לֵאמֹר, תִּפְשֻׂהוּ .וַתִּיבַשׁ יָדוֹ אֲשֶׁר שָׁלַח עָלָיו, וְלֹא יָכֹל לַהֲשִׁיבָהּ אֵלָיו"- מְלָכִים א יג ד, עַל יָרָבְעָם הַמִּצְוָה לִתְפֹּס אֶת אִישׁ הָאֱלֹהִים)