Lexicon anudros: waterless Original Word: ἄνυδρος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: anudros Phonetic Spelling: (an'-oo-dros) Short Definition: without water, dry Definition: without water, dry; subst: dry places, desert. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and hudórDefinitionwaterless NASB Translationwaterless (2), without water (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 504: ἄνυδροςἄνυδρος, ἄνυδρον (alpha privative and ὕδωρ), without water: πηγαί, 2 Peter 2:17; τόποι, desert places, Matthew 12:43; Luke 11:24 ( ἡ ἄνυδρος the desert, Isaiah 43:19; Herodotus 3, 4, etc.; in the Sept. often γῆ ἄνυδρος) (desert places were believed to be the haunts of demons; see Isaiah 13:21; Isaiah 34:14 (in the Sept.), and Gesenius or Alex. on the former passage; cf. further, Baruch 4:35; Tobit 8:3; 4 Macc. 18:8; (Enoch 10:4); Revelation 18:2; cf. 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.)
Strong's dry, without water. From a (as a negative particle) and hudor; waterless, i.e. Dry -- dry, without water. see GREEK a see GREEK hudor |
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