ξηρασία
dryness, drought
Where this word appears
Every passage where ξηρασία appears in the Greek Septuagint — 7 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Judges 6:37 ξηρασία behold, I put the fleece of wool in the threshing floor: if there be dew on the fleece only, and drought on all the ground, I shall know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said.
- Judges 6:39 ξηρασία And Gedeon said to God, Let not, I pray you, your anger be kindled with me, and I will speak yet once; I will even yet make one trial more with the fleece: let now the drought be upon the fleece only, and let there be dew on all the ground.
- Judges 6:40 ξηρασία And God did so in that night; and there was drought on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew.
- Ezra 19:11 ξηρασία
- Ezekiel 17:10 ξηρασία And, behold, it thrives: shall it prosper? shall it not wither as soon as the east wind touches it? it shall be withered together with the growth of its shoots.
- Ezekiel 40:43 ξηρασία And they shall have within a border of hewn stone round about of a span broad, and over the tables above screens for covering them from the wet and from the heat.
- Nahum 1:10 ξηρασία For the enemy shall be laid bare even to the foundation, and shall be devoured as twisted yew, and as stubble fully dry.
About this word
About this word
ξηρασία (xērasía), “dryness, drought,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 7 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →