UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Notes: It may be more appropriate in a number of languages to translate this clause in OET MRK 5:29 as ‘and immediately her menstrual bleeding stopped.’

Forms: ξηραίνομαι[a]

Show passage in OET: MRK 4:6

OET-RV MRK 4:6

6 but when the sun came up, it dried out because the roots weren’t deep, and so it just withered up.

OET-LV MRK 4:6

6 and when the sun rose, it _was _scorched and because _of the depth to _be _having no root, it _was _withered.

Show passage in OET: MRK 5:29

OET-RV MRK 5:29

29 Immediately the bleeding stopped, and she knew that she had been healed.

OET-LV MRK 5:29

29 And immediately the flow of _the blood of _her was _dried _up, and she _knew in _her body that she _has _been _healed from the affliction.

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All 6 recorded passages for this sense

MRK: OET MRK 4:6 · OET MRK 5:29 · OET MRK 11:20–21

JHN: OET JHN 15:6

REV: OET REV 16:12

Sense 3: to become ripe, to be ripe

Semantic entry: 23.198

Semantic domains: Physiological Processes and States

Subdomains: Ripen, Produce Fruit, Bear Seed

Definition: (derivative of ξηρός[a] ‘dry,’ 79.80: ξηρός) to become ripe, with reference to grain which dries in the process of ripening

Forms: ξηραίνομαι[b]

Show passage in OET: REV 14:15

OET-RV REV 14:15

15 Another messenger came out of the temple, calling out in a loud voice to the one sitting on the cloud: “Extend your sickle and reap the grain because it’s reaping time—the harvest of the earth is ripe now.”

OET-LV REV 14:15

15 And another messenger came _out crying _out of the temple, with a_voice loud to _the one sitting on the cloud:
Send the sickle of _you and reap, because came the hour to _reap, because was _withered the harvest of _the earth.

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Sense 4: to be stiff, to be paralyzed

Semantic entry: 23.172

Semantic domains: Physiological Processes and States

Subdomains: Sickness, Disease, Weakness

Definition: (a figurative extension of meaning of ξηραίνομαι[a] ‘to dry up,’ 79.81: ξηραίνω) to become stiff to the point of not being able to move

Notes: In some languages one may express the meaning of ‘to be stiff all over’ as ‘not able to move any part of the body.’

Forms: ξηραίνομαι[c]

Show passage in OET: MRK 3:1

OET-RV MRK 3:1

3 Again at another time, Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) went into the Jewish meeting hall and there was a man there with a curled-up hand.

OET-LV MRK 3:1

3 And he _came _in again into the_synagogue, and a_man was there having the hand having _been _withered.

Show passage in OET: MRK 9:18

OET-RV MRK 9:18

18 Whenever it takes hold of him, it attacks him and he starts foaming at the mouth and grating his teeth and his joints lock up. I tried to get your followers to command it to leave but they couldn’t.”

OET-LV MRK 9:18

18 And wherever it _may _grasp if him, it _is _attacking him, and he _is _foaming and is _grating his teeth and is _being _paralysed.
And I _told to _the apprentices/followers of _you that they _may _throw_ it _out, and they_ not _prevailed.

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ξηραίνω

Form 1

Sense 1: to dry out, to dry up, to wither

Sense 2: to dry up

Sense 3: to become ripe, to be ripe

Sense 4: to be stiff, to be paralyzed