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ξηρός

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Gloss: dried up/withered

Transliteration: xēros

Strong’s: G3584

ξηρός, -ά, -όν
[in LXX chiefly for יָבֵשׁ, its parts and deriva­tives, also for חָרָבָה, etc. ;]
dry: metaphorically (of a sinner), ξύλον ξ., Luk.23:31; of members of the body shrunken by disease, withered: Jhn.5:3; of the hand, Mat.12:10 Mrk.3:3, Luk.6:6, 8; of the dry land, ἡ ξηρά (sc. γῆ, cf. Gen.1:9-10; Jon.1:19, al.): Mat.23:15; γῆ, Heb.11:29.†
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