Word Summary
anydros: waterless
Original Word: ἄνυδροςTransliteration: anydros
Phonetic Spelling: (an'-oo-dros)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: waterless
Meaning: waterless
Strong's Concordance
dry, without water.
From a (as a negative particle) and hudor; waterless, i.e. Dry -- dry, without water.
see GREEK a
see GREEK hudor
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 504: ἄνυδροςἄνυδρος,
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, 197faridanubila), which promise rain but yield none, Jude 1:12. (In Greek writings from Herodotus down.)