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Strong's #504 - ἄνυδρος
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ἄνυδρ-ος, ον, (ὕδωρ)
I waterless, of arid countries, Hes. Fr. 24, Hdt. 4.185; γῆ Hp. Aër. 1; δάπεδα Trag. ap. Phot.p.151 R.; esp. without spring-water, Hdt. 2.7 codd., cf. 149, 3.5; ἡ ἄνυδρος (sc. γῆ) Id. 3.4 and 9, Arist. Fr. 103, LXX Isaiah 44:3; of seasons, Hp. Aph. 3, 14; θέρος Id. Aër. 10; in E. Tr. 1085 (lyr.), of a corpse, deprived of funeral lustrations; unwatered, σμύρνα Id. Ion 89 (anap.).
II ἄνυδρον, τό, = στρύχνον μανικόν, Dsc. 4.73.
ἄνυδρος, ἄνυδρον (alpha privative and ὕδωρ), without water: πηγαί, 2 Peter 2:17; τόποι, desert places, Matthew 12:43; Luke 11:24 (ἡ ἄνυδρος the desert, Isaiah 43:19; Herodotus 3, 4, etc.; in the Sept. often γῆ ἄνυδρος) (desert places were believed to be the haunts of demons; see Isaiah 13:21; Isaiah 34:14 (in the Sept.), and Gesenius or Alex. on the former passage; cf. further, Baruch 4:35; Tobit 8:3; 4 Macc. 18:8; (Enoch 10:4); Revelation 18:2; cf.
d. Zeitschr. d. deutsch. morgenl. Gesell. xxi. 609); νεφέλαι, waterless clouds (Vergil georg. 3, 197farida nubila), which promise rain but yield none, Jude 1:12. (In Greek writings from Herodotus down.)
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ἄνυδρος , -ον
(< ἀ - neg., ὕδωρ ),
[in LXX for H6723, H3452 (γῆ ἄ ), etc.;]
waterless: τόποι , Matthew 12:43, Luke 11:24; πηγαί , 2 Peter 2:17; νεφέλαι , Judges 1:12 (MM, VGT, s.v.).†
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OG1S 199.21 (i/A.D.) οἰκοῦντα ἐντὸς πεδίων μεγάλων ἀνύδρων —the ";waterless"; deserts stretching to the south and west of Abyssinia. P Oxy VI. 918 ii. 10 (a land-survey, ii/A.D.) μεθ᾽ (ἣν) γύη [ς ἄ ]νυδρ (ος). P Lips Inv 348.6 (A.D. 376–8) (= Chrest. II. p. 86) ἀνέδραμον. . . δι᾽ ἀνύδρων ὀρῶν. The subst. is found in the petition of certain quarrymen to be transferred to the alabaster quarries on account of the want of water in the place where they were working—διὰ τὴν ἀνυδρίαν τῶν τόπων [τῶνδ ]ε (P Petr II. 9 (2).6 (iii/B.C.)).
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