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ξηραίνω

to wither

‘to wither’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓

G3583 Strong's Greek
xēraínō Transliteration
/xay-rah'-ee-no/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 15 appearances

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About this entry

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ξηραινω — transliterated xēraínō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to wither.” Debuting at Matthew 13:6, it then recurs through the corpus. Spanning 15 verses in 7 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Mark (40% of all occurrences). Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. See the sense tree, 15-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
dry up
Modern gloss
to wither
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G3583 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

15
distinct verses
The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
7 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 13:6
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 13:6.
Revelation 16:12
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 16:12.
#768
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 768 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 15 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 11 · 73%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 2 · 13%
  • Revelation 2 · 13%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 15 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 11 verses · 73%
  • Johannine 3 verses · 20%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 13%
  • Revelation 2 verses · 13%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 7%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Withered away 4×, Was dried up 2×, Withered 2×
  • American Standard Version: Withered away 4×, Was dried up 2×, Withered 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Withered 4×, Withers 3×, They withered 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Withered 5×, Was dried up 3×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3583 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Withered away” 4×
  • “Was dried up” 2×
  • “Withered” 2×
  • “Withereth” 2×

Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G3583 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Withered away” 4×
  • “Was dried up” 2×
  • “Withered” 2×
  • “Withereth” 2×

Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G3583 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Withered” 4×
  • “Withers” 3×
  • “They withered” 2×

Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3583 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Withered” 5×
  • “Was dried up” 3×

Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. to make dry, dry up, wither
  2. to become dry, to be dry, be withered
  3. to waste away, pine away, i.e. a withered hand

Word origin

Derived from ξηρος (xērós) (G3584) — dry.

Part of speech: Verb

From G3584 ; to desiccate ; by implication to shrivel to mature : - dry up pine away be ripe wither (away).

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 5 distinct written forms G3583 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἐξηράνθη exēránthē Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 13:6 10
ἐξηραμμένην exēramménēn Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Mark 3:1 2
ξηραίνεται xēraínetai Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 9:18 1
ἐξήρανεν exḗranen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular James 1:11 1
ἐξήρανται exḗrantai Verb, Perfect, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 11:21 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3583, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ξηραινω appears 56 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 52 verses in 16 books.

56
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
52
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
16 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 16 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3583) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 52. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3583) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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