ἄνυδρος
ánydros · G504 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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waterless, dry
Pertaining to the absence of water or moisture
ExamplesMatthew 12:43 “Now when the unclean spirit comes out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it.
Luke 11:24 “When the unclean spirit comes out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding any, it then says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’
2 Peter 2:17 These are springs without water and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black darkness has been reserved.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- צִיָּה tsîyâh · H6723 · drought, dry land, desert
- Hebrew צִיָּה emphasizes the dryness/barrenness of land as a geographical or ecological condition (drought-stricken wilderness), while Greek ἄνυδρος focuses on the literal absence of water as a defining characteristic (waterless places); both denote dry/arid conditions but צִיָּה carries stronger wilderness/desolation connotations whereas ἄνυδρος is more physically descriptive of water-absence.
- יְשִׁימוֹן yᵉshîymôwn · H3452 · wilderness
- יְשִׁימוֹן (yᵉshîymôwn, H3452) denotes a specific type of waterless terrain (desert/wilderness) as a substantive noun, while ἄνυδρος (ánydros, G504) functions as a descriptive adjective meaning 'waterless/dry' applicable to any land or place; the Greek term renders the Hebrew when translating wilderness contexts where the waterless quality is the salient feature.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Waterless, dry2.8
- In Matthew 12:43, Jesus describes how “when the unclean spirit comes out of a person, it passes through waterless (anýdrōn) places seeking rest, and does not find it,” naming arid, uninhabitable terrain.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἄνυδρον (alpha privative and ὕδωρ), without water: πηγαί, 2 Pet 2:17; τόποι, desert…
d. Zeitschr. d. deutsch. morgenl. Gesell. xxi. 609); νεφέλαι, waterless clouds (Vergil georg. 3, 197faridanubila), which promise rain but yield none, Jude 1:12. (In Greek writings from Herodotus down.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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