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Lexicon :: Strong's G3584 - xēros

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ξηρός
Transliteration
xēros (Key)
Pronunciation
xay-ros'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
From the base of ξέστης (G3582) (through the idea of scorching)
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Strong’s Definitions

ξηρός xērós, xay-ros'; from the base of G3582 (through the idea of scorching); arid; by implication, shrunken, earth (as opposed to water):—dry land, withered.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's G3584 in the following manner: withered (4x), dry (1x), dry land (1x), land (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's G3584 in the following manner: withered (4x), dry (1x), dry land (1x), land (1x).

  1. dry

    1. of members of the body deprived of their natural juices, shrunk, wasted, withered

    2. of the land in distinction from the water

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ξηρός xērós, xay-ros'; from the base of G3582 (through the idea of scorching); arid; by implication, shrunken, earth (as opposed to water):—dry land, withered.
STRONGS G3584:
ξηρός, ξηρά, ξηρόν, from Herodotus down, dry: τό ξύλον, Luke 23:31 (in a proverb. saying, 'if a good man is treated so, what will be done to the wicked?' cf. Psalm 1:3; Ezekiel 20:47. Isaiah 56:3; Ezekiel 17:24); of members of the body deprived of their natural juices, shrunk, wasted, withered: as χείρ, Matthew 12:10; Mark 3:3 L T Tr WH; Luke 6:6, 8; men are spoken of as ξηροι, withered, John 5:3. of the land in distinction from water, ἡ ξηρά namely, γῆ (the Sept. for יַבָּשָׁה, Genesis 1:9; Jonah 1:9; Jonah 2:11, and often (Winer's Grammar, 18; 592 (550))): Matthew 23:15; Hebrews 11:29 where L T Tr WH add γῆς.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
1:9
Psalms
1:3
Isaiah
56:3
Ezekiel
17:24; 20:47
Jonah
1:9
Matthew
12:10; 23:15
Mark
3:3
Luke
6:6; 6:8; 23:31
John
5:3
Hebrews
11:29

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3584 matches the Greek ξηρός (xēros),
which occurs 33 times in 30 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:9 - And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:10 - God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:22 - Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:9 - But if they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river will become blood on the ground.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:16 - Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:21 - Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:22 - and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:29 - But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:19 - When Pharaoh’s horses, chariots and horsemen[fn] went into the sea, the LORD brought the waters of the sea back over them, but the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:17 - The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD stopped in the middle of the Jordan and stood on dry ground, while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:22 - tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:5 - They put worn and patched sandals on their feet and wore old clothes. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:19 - As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:6 - He turned the sea into dry land, they passed through the waters on foot— come, let us rejoice in him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:5 - The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:18 - Surely wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns, it sets the forest thickets ablaze, so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:6 - We have heard of Moab’s pride— how great is her arrogance!— of her conceit, her pride and her insolence; but her boasts are empty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:27 - Their people, drained of power, are dismayed and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass sprouting on the roof, scorched[fn] before it grows up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:3 - Let no foreigner who is bound to the LORD say, “The LORD will surely exclude me from his people.” And let no eunuch complain, “I am only a dry tree.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:24 - All the trees of the forest will know that I the LORD bring down the tall tree and make the low tree grow tall. I dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish. “ ‘I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:47

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:47 - Say to the southern forest: ‘Hear the word of the LORD. This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am about to set fire to you, and it will consume all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and every face from south to north will be scorched by it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:2 - He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:4 - Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:11 - Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:10 - The astrologers answered the king, “There is no one on earth who can do what the king asks! No king, however great and mighty, has ever asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or astrologer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:14 - Give them, LORD— what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:9 - He answered, “I am a Hebrew and I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:10 - And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:6 - “This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:21 - “Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah that I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.
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