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Lexicon :: Strong's G3583 - xērainō

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ξηραίνω
Transliteration
xērainō (Key)
Pronunciation
xay-rah'-ee-no
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Strong’s Definitions

ξηραίνω xēraínō, xay-rah'-ee-no; from G3584; to desiccate; by implication, to shrivel, to mature:—dry up, pine away, be ripe, wither (away).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x

The KJV translates Strong's G3583 in the following manner: wither away (6x), wither (5x), dry up (3x), pine away (1x), be ripe (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x
The KJV translates Strong's G3583 in the following manner: wither away (6x), wither (5x), dry up (3x), pine away (1x), be ripe (1x).

  1. to make dry, dry up, wither

  2. to become dry, to be dry, be withered

    1. of plants

    2. of the ripening of crops

    3. of fluids

    4. of the members of the body

  3. to waste away, pine away, i.e. a withered hand

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ξηραίνω xēraínō, xay-rah'-ee-no; from G3584; to desiccate; by implication, to shrivel, to mature:—dry up, pine away, be ripe, wither (away).
STRONGS G3583:
ξηραίνω: 1 aorist ἐξηρανα (James 1:11); passive, present ξηραίνομαι; perfect 3 person singular ἐξήρανται (Mark 11:21), participle ἐξηραμμενος; 1 aorist ἐξηράνθην; cf. Buttmann, 41 (36); (from ξηρός, which see); from Homer down; the Sept. chiefly for יִבֵּשׁ and הובִישׁ; to make dry, dry up, wither: active, τόν χόρτον, James 1:11; passive to become dry, to be dry, be withered (cf. Buttmann, 52 (45)) (the Sept. for יָבֵשׁ): of plants, Matthew 13:6; Matthew 21:19; Mark 4:6; Mark 11:20; Luke 8:6; John 15:6; (1 Peter 1:24); of the ripening of crops, Revelation 14:15; of fluids: ἡ πηγή, Mark 5:29; τό ὕδωρ, Revelation 16:12 (Genesis 8:7; Isaiah 19:5); of members of the body, to waste away, pine away: Mark 9:18; ἐξηραμμενη χείρ, a withered hand, Mark 3:1, and R G in 3.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
8:7
Isaiah
19:5
Matthew
13:6; 21:19
Mark
3:1; 4:6; 5:29; 9:18; 11:20; 11:21
Luke
8:6
John
15:6
James
1:11; 1:11
1 Peter
1:24
Revelation
14:15; 16:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3583 matches the Greek ξηραίνω (xērainō),
which occurs 55 times in 51 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 8:7–Zec 10:11)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:7 - and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:14 - In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:12 - Here is our bread. It was still warm when we took it from our houses as our food for the journey on the day we set out to come to you, but now, behold, it is dry and crumbly.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:4 - And when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him.” And his hand, which he stretched out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:7 - And after a while the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:21 - Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them,
do they not die, and that without wisdom?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:12 - While yet in flower and not cut down,
they wither before any other plant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:15 - If he withholds the waters, they dry up;
if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:11 - As waters fail from a lake
and a river wastes away and dries up,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:16 - His roots dry up beneath,
and his branches wither above.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:15 - my strength is dried up like a potsherd,
and my tongue sticks to my jaws;
you lay me in the dust of death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 74:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:15 - You split open springs and brooks;
you dried up ever-flowing streams.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 90:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:6 - in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it fades and withers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 102:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:4 - My heart is struck down like grass and has withered;
I forget to eat my bread.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 102:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:11 - My days are like an evening shadow;
I wither away like grass.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:9 - He rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry,
and he led them through the deep as through a desert.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 129:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:6 - Let them be like the grass on the housetops,
which withers before it grows up,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 17:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:22 - A joyful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:5 - And the waters of the sea will be dried up,
and the river will be dry and parched,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:6 - and its canals will become foul,
and the branches of Egypt’s Nile will diminish and dry up,
reeds and rushes will rot away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:7 - There will be bare places by the Nile,
on the brink of the Nile,
and all that is sown by the Nile will be parched,
will be driven away, and will be no more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:11 - When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
women come and make a fire of them.
For this is a people without discernment;
therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
he who formed them will show them no favor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:27 - while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded,
and have become like plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
blighted[fn] before it is grown.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:7 - The grass withers, the flower fades
when the breath of the LORD blows on it;
surely the people are grass.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:24 - Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
when he blows on them, and they wither,
and the tempest carries them off like stubble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:17 - When the poor and needy seek water,
and there is none,
and their tongue is parched with thirst,
I the LORD will answer them;
I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:14 - For a long time I have held my peace;
I have kept still and restrained myself;
now I will cry out like a woman in labor;
I will gasp and pant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:15 - I will lay waste mountains and hills,
and dry up all their vegetation;
I will turn the rivers into islands,[fn]
and dry up the pools.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:11 - Behold, all his companions shall be put to shame, and the craftsmen are only human. Let them all assemble, let them stand forth. They shall be terrified; they shall be put to shame together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:27 - who says to the deep, ‘Be dry;
I will dry up your rivers’;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 50:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:2 - Why, when I came, was there no man;
why, when I called, was there no one to answer?
Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?
Or have I no power to deliver?
Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea,
I make the rivers a desert;
their fish stink for lack of water
and die of thirst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:12 - “I, I am he who comforts you;
who are you that you are afraid of man who dies,
of the son of man who is made like grass,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:4 - How long will the land mourn
and the grass of every field wither?
For the evil of those who dwell in it
the beasts and the birds are swept away,
because they said, “He will not see our latter end.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:10 - For the land is full of adulterers;
because of the curse the land mourns,
and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up.
Their course is evil,
and their might is not right.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:36 - Therefore thus says the LORD:
“Behold, I will plead your cause
and take vengeance for you.
I will dry up her sea
and make her fountain dry,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:8 - Now their face is blacker than soot;
they are not recognized in the streets;
their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become as dry as wood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:9 - “Say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it withers, so that all its fresh sprouting leaves wither? It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it from its roots.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:10 - Behold, it is planted; will it thrive? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it—wither away on the bed where it sprouted?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:24 - And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the LORD; I bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:12 - But the vine was plucked up in fury,
cast down to the ground;
the east wind dried up its fruit;
they were stripped off and withered.
As for its strong stem,
fire consumed it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:16 - Ephraim is stricken;
their root is dried up;
they shall bear no fruit.
Even though they give birth,
I will put their beloved children to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:10 - The fields are destroyed,
the ground mourns,
because the grain is destroyed,
the wine dries up,
the oil languishes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:11 - Be ashamed,[fn] O tillers of the soil;
wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
because the harvest of the field has perished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:12 - The vine dries up;
the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
all the trees of the field are dried up,
and gladness dries up
from the children of man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:17 - The seed shrivels under the clods;[fn]
the storehouses are desolate;
the granaries are torn down
because the grain has dried up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:20 - Even the beasts of the field pant for you
because the water brooks are dried up,
and fire has devoured
the pastures of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:2 - And he said:
“The LORD roars from Zion
and utters his voice from Jerusalem;
the pastures of the shepherds mourn,
and the top of Carmel withers.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:7 - “I also withheld the rain from you
when there were yet three months to the harvest;
I would send rain on one city,
and send no rain on another city;
one field would have rain,
and the field on which it did not rain would wither;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:4 - He rebukes the sea and makes it dry;
he dries up all the rivers;
Bashan and Carmel wither;
the bloom of Lebanon withers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:11 - He shall pass through the sea of troubles
and strike down the waves of the sea,
and all the depths of the Nile shall be dried up.
The pride of Assyria shall be laid low,
and the scepter of Egypt shall depart.

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