- ξηρός
- ξηρός, ά, όν (Hipponax [VI B.C.]; Hdt.+; ins, pap, LXX, En; TestSol 10:6 C; TestZeb 2:7; JosAs 13:8; Philo; Jos., Bell. 3, 228, Ant. 5, 249; Just., D. 117, 3; 131, 3; Mel.; Hs 8, 4, 6 adj. with two endings?)① pert. to total loss of moisture, dry, dried up, lit., of ξύλον (q.v. 3 and GDI 4689, 108 [Messenia] ξηρὰ ξύλα; PEdg 93 [=Sb 6808], 1 [256 B.C.]; Is 56:3; Ezk 17:24) Lk 23:31; Hs 4:4. Of trees (Lucian, Sat. 9) 3:1ff; 4:1, 4. Of branches (POxy 1188, 4 [13 A.D.]; Kaibel 1039, 14) 8, 1, 6f and 11f; 8, 2, 6; 8, 4, 4ff; 8, 5, 2ff; 8, 6, 4f; 8, 8, 1 and 4; 8, 9, 1; 8, 10, 1 and 3. Of plants 9, 1, 6; 9, 21, 1; hence also in imagery θεμέλια (corresp. to ῥίζαι) 9, 21, 2 and even of pers.: δίψυχοι ibid.; cp. 4:4. Of seeds 1 Cl 24:5. ἡ ξ. γῆ dry land Hb 11:29. Also simply ἡ ξηρά the dry (land, ground) (X., Oec. 17, 2; 19, 7; Aristot., HA 5, 10; Gen 1:9 al. in LXX) Hb 11:29 v.l.; Hv 3, 2, 7; 3, 5, 3. W. θάλασσα (Jon 1:9; Hg 2:21; 1 Macc 8:23, 32; En 97:7) Mt 23:15.② pert. to being shrunken or withered and therefore immobile because of disease, withered, shrunken, paralyzed, fig. ext. of 1 (cp. ξηραίνω 2; ξηρότης Galen VII 666, 1 K.=a wasting disease.—ξηρός in this sense on the third stele of Epidaurus ln. 108 as read by RHerzog, D. Wunderheilungen v. Ep. 1931, 32 and 138. ἡμίξηρος=half-stiffened Hippiatr. I 185, 9; χεὶρ ἡμίξηρος TestSim 2, 12. Cp. also Hipponax 10 West [30 Degani; 11 Diehl3] λιμῷ γένηται [Diehl accepts opt. γένοιτο against codd.] ξηρός; Hos 9:14 μαστοὶ ξηροί; Psellus p. 27, 17 νηδὺς ξηρά of the womb of an aged woman) χεὶρ ξηρά a withered hand Mt 12:10; Mk 3:3; Lk 6:6, 8 (Mel., P. 78, 562; 90, 668). ξηροί withered, paralyzed (Lucian, Tox. 24 of a woman ξηρὰ τὸ ἥμισυ) J 5:3.—On the mng. of the word DHesseling, Sertum Nabericum 1908, 145–54; Renehan ’75, 145f.—B. 1076. DELG. M-M.
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