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ἄνυδρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄνυδρος

Structure: ἀνυδρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: u(/dwr

Sense

  1. wanting water, waterless, deprived of funeral lustrations

Examples

  • ἔθετο ἔρημον εἰσ λίμνασ ὑδάτων καὶ γῆν ἄνυδρον εἰσ διεξόδουσ ὑδάτων. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 106:35)
  • ἐν ἐνδείᾳ καὶ λιμῷ ἄγονοσ. οἱ φεύγοντεσ ἄνυδρον ἐχθὲσ συνοχὴν καὶ ταλαιπωρίαν, (Septuagint, Liber Iob 30:3)
  • ὅπωσ ἂν ἐκδύσω αὐτὴν γυμνὴν καὶ ἀποκαταστήσω αὐτὴν καθὼσ ἡμέρα γενέσεωσ αὐτῆσ. καὶ θήσω αὐτὴν ἔρημον καὶ τάξω αὐτὴν ὡσ γῆν ἄνυδρον καὶ ἀποκτενῶ αὐτὴν ἐν δίψει. (Septuagint, Prophetia Osee 2:5)
  • καὶ τὸν ἀπὸ Βορρᾶ ἐκδιώξω ἀφ̓ ὑμῶν καὶ ἐξώσω αὐτὸν εἰσ γῆν ἄνυδρον καὶ ἀφανιῶ τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ εἰσ τὴν θάλασσαν τὴν πρώτην καὶ τὰ ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ εἰσ τὴν θάλασσαν τὴν ἐσχάτην, καὶ ἀναβήσεται ἡ σαπρία αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀναβήσεται ὁ βρόμοσ αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἐμεγάλυνε τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ioel 2:20)
  • καὶ ἐκτενεῖ τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ βορρᾶν καὶ ἀπολεῖ τὸν Ἀσσύριον καὶ θήσει τὴν Νινευὴ εἰσ ἀφανισμὸν ἄνυδρον ὡσ ἔρημον. (Septuagint, Prophetia Sophoniae 2:13)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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