ἄνυδρος, ἄνυδρον (alpha privative and ὕδωρ), without water: πηγαί, 2Pe_2:17; τόποι, desert places, Mat_12:43; Luk_11:24 (ἡ ἄνυδρος the desert, Isa_43:19; Herodotus 3, 4, etc.; in the Sept. often γῆ ἄνυδρος) (desert places were believed to be the haunts of demons; see Isa_13:21; Isa_34:14 (in the Sept.), and Gesenius or Alex. on the former passage; cf. further, Bar_4:35; Tob_8:3; 4Ma_18:8; (Enoch 10:4); Rev_18:2; cf. d. Zeitschr. d. deutsch. morgenl. Gesell. xxi. 609); νεφέλαι, waterless clouds (Vergil georg. 3, 197faridanubila), which promise rain but yield none, Jud_1:12. (In Greek writings from Herodotus down.)

ἄνυδρος anydros 4x without water, dry, 2Pe_2:17 ; Jud_1:12 ; τόποι ἄνυδροι , d ry places, and therefore, in the East, barren, desert, Mat_12:43 ; Luk_11:24

ἄνυδρος , -ον ( < ἀ - neg ., ὕδωρ ), [in LXX for H6723 , H3452 (γῆ ἄ ), etc.;] waterless: τόποι , Mat_12:43 , Luk_11:24 ; πηγαί , 2Pe_2:17 ; νεφέλαι , Jud_1:12 ( MM , VGT , s.v. ).†

ἄνυδρος [page 49] OG1S 199 .21 (i/A.D.) οἰκοῦντα ἐντὸς πεδίων μεγάλων ἀνύδρων the waterless deserts stretching to the south and west of Abyssinia. P Oxy VI. 918 ii. 10 (a land-survey, ii/A.D.) μεθ᾽ (ἣν ) γύη [ς ἄ ]νυδρ (ος ). P Lips Inv 348 .6 (A.D. 376 8) (= Chrest. II. p. 86) ἀνέδραμον . . . δι᾽ ἀνύδρων ὀρῶν . The subst. is found in the petition of certain quarrymen to be transferred to the alabaster quarries on account of the want of water in the place where they were working διὰ τὴν ἀνυδρίαν τῶν τόπων [τῶνδ ]ε (P Petr II. 9 (2) .6 (iii/B.C.)).

ἄνυδρος [Etym: ὕδωρ] "wanting water, waterless", of arid countries, Hdt. :—of a corpse, "deprived of funeral lustrations", Eur.

ἄνυδρος, -ον (ἀ- neg., ὕδωρ) [in LXX for צִיָּה, יְשִׁימוֹן (γῆ ἄ), etc. ;] waterless: τόποι, Mat.12:43, Luk.11:24; πηγαί, 2Pe.2:17; νεφέλαι, Ju 12 (MM, VGT, see word).† (AS)