Quick Definition
ἄνυδρος, ον Adj without water, dry
Strong's Definition
from 1 (as a negative particle) and 5204; waterless, i.e. dry
KJV Usage: dry, without water
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | -ον | ὕδωρ
2.8 · Natural Substances · Water
waterless, dry pertaining to the absence of water or moisture See also 1.86 for ἄνυδρος τόπος ‘lonely place.’
In the NT ἄνυδρος occurs in the figurative expressions ‘waterless springs’ (2PE 2:17) and ‘waterless clouds.’ A phrase such as ‘waterless springs’ may be rendered simply as ‘springs in which there is no water,’ but in some languages such a phrase would seem to be a complete contradiction, since a term for ‘spring’ would imply the existence of water. It may therefore be necessary to translate ‘waterless springs’ as ‘springs which have ceased to produce water.’ ‘Waterless clouds’ are often best rendered as ‘clouds which will not produce rain’ or ‘clouds from which no rain will fall.’ In JUD 1:12 the phrase ‘waterless clouds’ is a description of persons whose teaching and behavior are of no value in building up the faith of believers. Such a metaphor must often be changed into a simile, for example, ‘they are like clouds which do not produce rain.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἄνυδρος, -ov, (a priv. and ὕδωρ), without water: πηγαί, 2 Pet. 11. 17; τόποι, desert places, Mt. xii. 43 ; Lk. xi. 24, (ἡ ἄνυδρος the desert, Is. xliii. 19; Hdt. 3, 4, ete. ; in Sept. often γῆ ἄνυδρος), [desert places were believed to be the haunts of demons; see Is. xiii. 21; xxxiv. 14 (in Sept.), and Gesen. or Alex. on the former pass.; cf. further, Bar. iv. 35; Tob. viii. 3; 4 Mace. xviii. 8; (Enoch x. 4) ; Rev. xviii. 2; ef. ἃ. Zeitschr. ἃ. deutsch. morgenl. Gesell. xxi. 609]; νεφέλαι, waterless clouds (Vere. georg. 3, 197 sq. arida nubila), which promise rain but yield none, Jude 12. (In Grk. writ. fr. Hdt. down.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἄνυδρος anydros 4x
without water, dry, 2 Pet. 2:17; Jude 12; τόποι ἄνυδροι, dry places, and therefore, in the East, barren, desert, Mt. 12:43; Lk. 11:24*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἄνυδρος, -ον
(< ἀ- neg., ὕδωρ), [in LXX for צִיָּה, יְשִׁימוֹן (γῆ ἄ), etc.;]
waterless: τόποι, Mt 12:43, Lk 11:24; πηγαί, II Pe 2:17; νεφέλαι, Ju 12 (MM, VGT, s.v.).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἄνυδρος. OGIS 1997 (i/A.D.) οἰκοῦντα ἐντὸς πεδίων μεγάλων aviSpwy—the ““ waterless” deserts stretching to the south and west of Abyssinia. P Oxy VI. g18ii-1° (a land-survey, ii/A.D.) μεθ᾽ (ἣν) γύη[ς &]vvbp(os). P Lips Inv 3485 (a.pD. 376-8) (= Chrest. II. p. 86) avéSpapov . . . δι᾽ ἀνύδρων ὀρῶν. The subst. is found in the petition of certain quarrymen to be transferred to the alabaster quarries on account of the ἀνυπόκριτος 50 want of water in the place where they were working—8a τὴν ἀνυδρίαν τῶν τόπων [τῶνδ]ε (P Petr IT. 9 (2) (iii/B.c.)).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἄνυδρος (anudros) — waterless. ἄνυδρ-ος, ον, (ὕδωρ) waterless, of arid countries, [Refs 8th c.BC+] Trag. cited in Phot.p.151 R.; especially without spring-water, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ ἄνυδρος (i.e. γῆ) [LXX+4th c.BC+]; of seasons, [Refs 5th c.BC+], of a corpse, deprived of funeral lustrations; unwatered, σμύρνα[Refs]
II. ἄνυδρον, τό, ={στρύχνον μανικόν}, [Refs 1st c.AD+]