Dried up/withered
ξηρόςStrong’s G3584xēros
Appears in 8 verses of the New Testament
In short
Xēros is the Greek word usually translated “withered”, “dry” and “paralyzed”. It appears in 8 verses of the New Testament.
“And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.”
Meaning
Usually translated “withered”, “dry” and “paralyzed”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- withered 4
- dry 3
- paralyzed 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Luke 3
- Matthew 2
- Mark 1
- John 1
- Hebrews 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 23:15Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
- Mark 3:3And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.
- Luke 6:6And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered.
- Luke 6:8But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which had the withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he arose and stood forth.
- Luke 23:31For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
- John 5:3In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
Greek dictionary
ξηρός xēros · dried up/withered
ξηρός, -ά, -όν [in LXX chiefly for יָבֵשׁ, its parts and derivatives, also for חָרָבָה, etc. ;] dry: metaphorically (of a sinner), ξύλον ξ., Luk.23:31; of members of the body shrunken by disease, withered: Jhn.5:3; of the hand, Mat.12:10 Mrk.3:3, Luk.6:6, 8; of the dry land, ἡ ξηρά (sc. γῆ, cf. Gen.1:9-10; Jon.1:19, al.): Mat.23:15; γῆ, Heb.11:29.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “withered” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WITHERED, participle passive
Faded; dried; shrunk.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.