Words

ξηραίνω G3583

Home gloss

dry up

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

dry up / wither

Note

Of water and land (8:7, 14; Rev 16:12) and of plants (Mark 11:20; Jas 1:11), where English may say "wither." One root with ξηρός "dry"

Rulings

2

Occurrences (2)

Genesis 8 (Septuagint)

• 8:7 and he sent the raven to see whether the water had abated; and having gone out, it did not return until the water was dried up from the land.
• 8:14 Now in the second month, on the seventh and twentieth of the month, the land was dried up.