Original Word: ἄνυδρος, ον
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: anudros
Phonetic Spelling: (an'-oo-dros)
Definition: waterless
Usage: without water, dry; subst: dry places, desert.Word Origin
from alpha (as a neg. prefix) and hudór
Definition
waterless
NASB Translation
waterless (2), without water (2).

STRONGS NT 504: ἄνυδρος

ἄνυδρος, 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.)

dry, without water.

From a (as a negative particle) and hudor; waterless, i.e. Dry -- dry, without water.

see GREEK a

see GREEK hudor

ανυδροι άνυδροι ἄνυδροι ανύδροις άνυδρον άνυδρος άνυδρός ανύδρω ανυδρων ανύδρων ἀνύδρων ανυπόδετος ανυποδέτους anudroi anudron anudrōn anydroi ánydroi anydron anydrōn anýdron anýdrōnInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts