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Greek adjective · G504

ἄνυδρος

anydrosan'-oo-dros

waterless

4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ánydros

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G504is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 4 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 2
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G504

waterless, i.e. dry

The King James renders it: dry, without water.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

anydros is rendered "waterless". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across four books.

  • One of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 12:43When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.
  • The Greek text spells it two different ways.

The first use

When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.

Matthew 12:43ἀνύδρων

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

One of the word's four uses is in Matthew.

The other 23 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • waterless2
  • without water2

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 4, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

2 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • ἄνυδροι2
  • ἀνύδρων2

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural2A-GPM
  • adjective · nominative (subject) · feminine plural2A-NPF

Matthew

one use
  • When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.

    Matthew 12:43

    • ἀνύδρωνanudronadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: waterless

Luke

one use
  • When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’

    Luke 11:24

    • ἀνύδρωνanudronadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: waterless

2 Peter

one use
  • These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.

    2 Peter 2:17

    • ἄνυδροιanudroiadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: without water

Jude

one use
  • These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.

    Jude 1:12

    • ἄνυδροιanudroiadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: without water

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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