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Koine Greek wordlink #60719

SR GNT Luke 23:31 ξηρῷ (xaʸrōi) ‘they are doing in the dry what may become’ Strongs=35840 Lemma=xēros
Word role=substantive adjective case=dative gender=neuter number=singular
Year=33 AD

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Only use of identical word form ξηρῷ (S-DNS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ξηρῷ’ (S-DNS) is always and only glossed as ‘dry’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘xēros’ have 4 different glosses: ‘dry’, ‘dry land’, ‘paralyzed’, ‘withered’.

Greek words (2) other than ξηρῷ (S-DNS) with a gloss related to ‘dry’

MAT 23:15 ξηράν (xaʸran) S-AFS ‘sea and the dry land to make one convert’ SR GNT Mat 23:15 word 13

OET-LV: 15 Woe to _you _all, scribes and Farisaios_party, hypocrites. Because you _all _are _going _around the sea and the dry land to _make one convert, and whenever he _may _become, you _all _are _making him a_son of _geenna twice _more than you _all. (MAT_23:15)

OET-RV: 15 “You religious teachers and Pharisees are hypocrites and will have a bad end because you’d travel all the way around the world to make one convert, and then you’d make him twice the son of hell that you are yourselves. (MAT 23:15)

HEB 11:29 ξηρᾶς (xaʸras) A-GFS ‘Sea as through dry land of which a trial’ SR GNT Heb 11:29 word 8

OET-LV: 29 By _faith they _passed _through the Red Sea, as through dry land, of _which a_trial having _taken, the Aiguptosians were _swallowed _up. (HEB_11:29)

OET-RV: 29 By faith, they crossed through the Red Sea as if it was dry land, but when the Egyptians tried they were drowned. (HEB 11:29)

Key: A=adjective S=substantive adjective AFS=accusative,feminine,singular DNS=dative,neuter,singular GFS=genitive,feminine,singular