STRONGS G504:
ἄνυδρος,
-ον (
α privative and
ὕδωρ),
without water:
πηγαί,
2 Peter 2:17;
τόποι, desert places,
Matthew 12:43;
Luke 11:24 (
ἡ ἄνυδρος the desert,
Isaiah 43:19; Herodotus 3, 4, etc.; in the
Sept. often
γῆ ἄνυδρος), [desert places were believed to be the haunts of demons; see
Isaiah 13:21;
Isaiah 34:14 (in the
Sept.), and Gesenius or
Alex. on the former passage; cf. further, Baruch 4:35; Tobit 8:3; 4 Macc. 18:8; (Enoch 10:4);
Revelation 18:2; cf. d. Zeitschr. d. deutsch. morgenl. Gesell. xxi. 609];
νεφέλαι,
waterless clouds (Vergil georg. 3, 197f
arida nubila), which promise rain but yield none,
Jude 1:12. (In Greek writings from Herodotus down.)
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