Strong's Greek · G3584

ξηρός

xērós

dry land, withered

Definition

arid; by implication, shrunken, earth (as opposed to water)

Derivation

from the base of G3582 (ξέστης) (through the idea of scorching);

Appears 8 times in Scripture

Hebrews 11:29

By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to follow, they were drowned.

Luke 23:31

For if men do these things while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

Luke 6:8

But Jesus knew their thoughts and said to the man with the withered hand, “Get up and stand among us.” So he got up and stood there.

Luke 6:6

On another Sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was withered.

Mark 3:3

Then Jesus said to the man with the withered hand, “Stand up among us.”

Matthew 12:10

and a man with a withered hand was there. In order to accuse Jesus, they asked Him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”

John 5:3

On these walkways lay a great number of the sick, the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed.

Matthew 23:15

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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