Lexicon :: Strong's G3583 - xērainō

and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.

By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was dry.

This bread of ours was warm when we took it from our houses as food on the day we left to come to you; but see, it is now dry and crumbly.

When the king heard the message that the man of God had cried out against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar and said, “Arrest him! ” But the hand he stretched out against him withered, and he could not pull it back to himself.

After a while, the wadi dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

Are their tent cords not pulled up?

They die without wisdom.

While still uncut shoots,

they would dry up quicker than any other plant.

When he withholds water, everything dries up,

and when he releases it, it destroys the land.

As water disappears from a lake

and a river becomes parched and dry,

His roots below dry up,

and his branches above wither away.

My strength is dried up like baked clay;

my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.

You put me into the dust of death.

You opened up springs and streams;

you dried up ever-flowing rivers.

in the morning it sprouts and grows;

by evening it withers and dries up.

My heart is suffering, withered like grass;

I even forget to eat my food.

My days are like a lengthening shadow,

and I wither away like grass.

He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;

he led them through the depths as through a desert.

Let them be like grass on the rooftops,

which withers before it grows up[fn]

A joyful heart is good medicine,

but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

The water of the sea will dry up,

and the river will be parched and dry.

When its branches dry out, they will be broken off.

Women will come and make fires with them,

for they are not a people with understanding.

Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them,

and their Creator will not be gracious to them.

Their inhabitants have become powerless,

dismayed, and ashamed.

They are plants of the field,

tender grass,

grass on the rooftops,

blasted by the east wind.[fn]

“The grass withers, the flowers fade

when the breath[fn] of the LORD blows on them;[fn]

indeed, the people are grass.

They are barely planted, barely sown,

their stem hardly takes root in the ground

when he blows on them and they wither,

and a whirlwind carries them away like stubble.

The poor and the needy seek water, but there is none;

their tongues are parched with thirst.

I will answer them.

I am the LORD, the God of Israel. I will not abandon them.

“I have kept silent from ages past;

I have been quiet and restrained myself.

But now, I will groan like a woman in labor,

gasping breathlessly.

Look, all its worshipers will be put to shame,

and the craftsmen are humans.

They all will assemble and stand;

they all will be startled and put to shame.

who says to the depths of the sea, “Be dry,”

and I will dry up your rivers;

Why was no one there when I came?

Why was there no one to answer when I called?

Is my arm too weak to redeem?

Or do I have no power to rescue?

Look, I dry up the sea by my rebuke;

I turn the rivers into a wilderness;

their fish rot because of lack of water

and die of thirst.

I ​— ​I am the one who comforts you.

Who are you that you should fear humans who die,

or a son of man who is given up like grass?

How long will the land mourn

and the grass of every field wither?

Because of the evil of its residents,

animals and birds have been swept away,

for the people have said,

“He cannot see what our end will be.”[fn]

For the land is full of adulterers;

the land mourns because of the curse,

and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up.

Their way of life[fn] has become evil,

and their power is not rightly used

Therefore, this is what the LORD says:

I am about to champion your cause

and take vengeance on your behalf;

I will dry up her sea

and make her fountain run dry.

Now they appear darker than soot;

they are not recognized in the streets.

Their skin has shriveled on their bones;

it has become dry like wood.

“You are to say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Will it flourish? Will he not tear out its roots and strip off its fruit so that it shrivels? All its fresh leaves will wither! Great strength and many people will not be needed to pull it from its roots.

“Then all the trees of the field will know

that I am the LORD.

I bring down the tall tree,

and make the low tree tall.

I cause the green tree to wither

and make the withered tree thrive.

I, the LORD, have spoken

and I will do it.’ ”

“But it was uprooted in fury,

thrown to the ground,

and the east wind dried up its fruit.

Its strong branches were torn off and dried up;

fire consumed them.

Ephraim is struck down;

their roots are withered;

they cannot bear fruit.

Even if they bear children,

I will kill the precious offspring of their wombs.

The fields are destroyed;

the land grieves;

indeed, the grain is destroyed;

the new wine is dried up;

and the fresh oil fails.

The seeds lie shriveled in their casings.[fn]

The storehouses are in ruin,

and the granaries are broken down,

because the grain has withered away.

Even the wild animals cry out to[fn] you,

for the river beds are dried up,

and fire has consumed

the pastures of the wilderness.

He said:

The LORD roars from Zion

and makes his voice heard from Jerusalem;

the pastures of the shepherds mourn,[fn]

and the summit of Carmel withers.

I also withheld the rain from you

while there were still three months until harvest.

I sent rain on one city

but no rain on another.

One field received rain

while a field with no rain withered.

He rebukes the sea and dries it up,

and he makes all the rivers run dry.

Bashan and Carmel wither;

even the flower of Lebanon withers.

The LORD[fn] will pass through the sea of distress

and strike the waves of the sea;

all the depths of the Nile will dry up.

The pride of Assyria will be brought down,

and the scepter of Egypt will come to an end.