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Strong's #3583: xeraino (pronounced xay-rah'-ee-no)

from 3584; to desiccate; by implication, to shrivel, to mature:--dry up, pine away, be ripe, wither (away).




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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xērainō

1) to make dry, dry up, wither

2) to become dry, to be dry, be withered

2a) of plants

2b) of the ripening of crops

2c) of fluids

2d) of the members of the body

3) to waste away, pine away, i.e. a withered hand

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G3584




Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

Matthew 13:6: "because they had no root, they withered away."
Matthew 21:19: "forever. And presently the fig tree withered away."
Matthew 21:20: "soon is the fig tree withered away!"
Mark 3:1: "a man there which had a withered hand."
Mark 3:3: "man which had the withered hand, Stand forth."
Mark 4:6: "because it had no root, it withered away."
Mark 5:29: "fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that"
Mark 9:18: "gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy"
Mark 11:20: "they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots."
Mark 11:21: "fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away."
Luke 8:6: "a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture."
John 15:6: "he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather"
James 1:11: "with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the"
1 Peter 1:24: "of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof"
Revelation 14:15: "harvest of the earth is ripe."
Revelation 16:12: "the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the"









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