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Strong's G504 ἄνυδρος (anydros)

Anydros means “dry” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H504 — eleph (“family”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G504
Language Greek
Linked Usages 27
Books 15

Strong's G504 Quick Answer

Strong's G504 ἄνυδρος (anudros) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. anudros (an'-oo-dros) adj. 1. waterless, i.e. dry [from G1 (as a negative particle) and G5204] It has 27 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include dry and without. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
anudros (an'-oo-dros) adj. 1. waterless, i.e. dry [from G1 (as a negative particle) and G5204]
Usage
27 linked usages
Books
15 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
dry and without

Meaning and Definition

anudros (an'-oo-dros) adj. 1. waterless, i.e. dry [from G1 (as a negative particle) and G5204] KJV: dry, without water Root(s): G1, G5204

Original Word
ἄνυδρος
Transliteration
anudros
Derivation
Root: ὕδωρ R1: 1 R2: 5204
Morphology
adjective

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G504. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

waterless

Usage: 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)

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How Strong's G504 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render anudros, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

dry Matthew 12:43 without 2 Peter 2:17

How Strong's G504 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 22 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G504 (ἄνυδρος) appears 23 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G504 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G504 in the New Testament

4 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 12:43 KJV

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

Luke 11:24 KJV

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.

2 Peter 2:17 KJV

These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

Strong's G504 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

22 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Deuteronomy 32:10 Septuagint / Brenton

He maintained him in the wilderness, In burning thirst and a dry land: He led him about and instructed him, And kept him as the apple of an eye.

Job 30:3 Septuagint / Brenton

One is childless in want and famine, Such as they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.

Psalms 62:2 Septuagint / Brenton

O God, my God, I cry to thee early; My soul has thirsted for thee: How often has my flesh longed after thee, In a barren and trackless and dry land!

Strong's G504 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

2 Maccabees 1:19 Septuagint / Brenton

For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests that were then devout took the fire of the altar privily, and hid it in a hollow place of a pit without water, where they kept it sure, so that the place was unknown to all men.

Usage Excerpts

First 27 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G504.

Deuteronomy 32:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He maintained him in the wilderness, In burning thirst and a dry land: He led him about and instructed him, And kept him as the apple of an eye.
Job 30:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
One is childless in want and famine, Such as they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.
Psalms 62:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
O God, my God, I cry to thee early; My soul has thirsted for thee: How often has my flesh longed after thee, In a barren and trackless and dry land!
Psalms 77:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they sinned yet more against him; They provoked the Most High in the wilderness.
Psalms 77:40 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, And anger him in a dry land!
Psalms 104:41 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He clove the rock, and the waters flowed; Rivers ran in dry places.
Psalms 105:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And tempted God in the dry land.
Psalms 106:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They wandered in the wilderness in a dry land; They found no way to a city of habitation.
Psalms 106:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He turns a wilderness into pools of water, And a dry land into streams of water.
Psalms 142:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I spread forth my hands to thee; My soul thirsts for thee, as a dry land. Pause.
Proverbs 9:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if thou shouldest prove wicked, thou alone wilt bear the evil. And the same will pursue birds in their flight: And he has caused the axles of his own husbandry to go astray; And a land appointed to drought, And he gathers barrenness with his hands.
Isaiah 35:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the dry land shall become pools, and a fountain of water shall be poured into the thirsty land; there shall there be a joy of birds, ready habitations and marshes.
Isaiah 41:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will plant in the dry land the cedar and box, the myrtle and cypress, and white poplar:
Isaiah 43:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, I will do new things, which shall presently spring forth, and ye shall know them: and I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the dry land.
Isaiah 43:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The beasts of the field shall bless me, the owls and young ostriches; for I have given water in the wilderness, and rivers in the dry land, to give drink to my chosen race,
Isaiah 44:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For I will give water to the thirsty that walk in a dry land: I will put my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessings upon thy children:
Jeremiah 2:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land which no man at all went through, and no man dwelt there?
Jeremiah 28:43 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Her cities are become like a dry and trackless land; not so much as one man shall dwell in it, neither shall a son of man lodge in it.
Ezekiel 19:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now they have planted her in the wilderness, in a dry land.
Hosea 2:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that I may strip her naked, and make her again as she was at the day of her birth: and I will make her desolate, and make her as a dry land, and will kill her with thirst.
Joel 2:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will chase away from you the northern adversary, and will drive him away into a dry land, and I will sink his face in the former sea, and his back parts in the latter sea, and his ill savor shall come up, and his stink shall come up, because he has wrought great things.
Zephaniah 2:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall stretch forth his hand against the north and destroy the Assyrian, and make Nineveh a dry wilderness, even as a desert.
Matthew 12:43 New Testament, KJV
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
Luke 11:24 New Testament, KJV
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
2 Peter 2:17 New Testament, KJV
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
Jude 1:12 New Testament, KJV
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
2 Maccabees 1:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests that were then devout took the fire of the altar privily, and hid it in a hollow place of a pit without water, where they kept it sure, so that the place was unknown to all men.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G504, grouped by book.

Deuteronomy 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
2 Peter 1 usage, New Testament
Jude 1 usage, New Testament
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G504 FAQ

What does anydros (ἄνυδρος) mean?

Anydros (Strong's G504) is a Greek word most simply glossed "dry". anudros (an'-oo-dros) adj. 1. waterless, i.e. dry [from G1 (as a negative particle) and G5204]

How many times is anydros (ἄνυδρος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 27 linked usages for Strong's G504 across 15 books.

Where can I study anydros (ἄνυδρος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G504 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate anydros (ἄνυδρος)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as dry and without. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G504 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 22 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G504, with linked reader references where each row is available.