Bible Dictionary: Arid

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(a.) Dry; barren; parched from heat; exhausted of moisture; as, arid desert lands.

Greek

3584. xeros -- dry
... dry, withered. From the base of xestes (through the idea of scorching); arid; by
implication, shrunken, earth (as opposed to water) -- dry land, withered. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2788. charer -- a parched place
... Word Origin from charar Definition a parched place NASB Word Usage stony wastes
(1). parched place. From charar; arid -- parched place. see HEBREW charar. ...
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Library

The victory of Faith
... in this world who will do it, I will do it; should a universal hiss go up to heaven,
I will do it still; should the very stories of earth fly up, arid stone me ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/the victory of faith.htm

Happy Pilgrims
... which was the Valley of Weeping; either because it dimly commemorated some
half-forgotten tragedy long ago, or, more probably, because it was arid and frowning ...
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The First Chaldaean Empire and the Hyksos in Egypt
... Arid and bare on the northern side, they sent out towards the south featureless
monotonous ridges, furrowed here and there by short narrow valleys, hollowed ...
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Theological Reconstruction
... feeling. He was not a man of imagination. His religion was austere, not to
say arid. Hegel was before all things an intellectualist. ...
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Introduction. Origin of the Treatise.
... Which is quite in accordance with nature; for vipers and asps and basilisks
themselves generally do affect arid and waterless places. ...
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Rondelet, {7} the Huguenot Naturalist {8}
... colour in spring; the mulberry orchards, the oliveyards, the vineyards, cover every
foot of available upland soil: save where the rugged and arid downs are ...
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Immeasurable Love
... What was there in the world that God should love it? There was nothing lovable
in it. No fragrant flower grew in that arid desert. ...
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God Just as Well as Merciful; Accordingly, Mercy must not be ...
... I have been quiet as (a woman) in birth-throes; I will arise, and will make (them)
to grow arid." [737] For "a fire shall proceed before His face, and shall ...
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Preface to the Letters of Dionysius the Areopagite.
... Symbolic Theology. From the letter to St. John in Patmos, we learn the love
between St. John arid Dionysius, and that St. John was ...
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Useful Phrases
... archeological pursuits. architectural grandeur. ardent protest. arduous quest. arid
formula. aristocratic lineage. aromatic fragrance. arrant trifling. ...
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Thesaurus

Arid (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Dry; barren; parched from heat; exhausted of moisture;
as, arid desert lands. Multi-Version Concordance Arid (2 Occurrences). ...
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Iscariot (11 Occurrences)
... betray him, being one of the twelve" (John 6:71), implying that Judas was already
known to Jesus as being in spirit one of those who "went back, arid walked no ...
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Desert (322 Occurrences)
... Luke 15:4. (2.) The translation of the Hebrew Aribah', "an arid tract"
(Isaiah 35:1, 6; 40:3; 41:19; 51:3, etc.). The name Arabah ...
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Dry (217 Occurrences)
... 1. (superl.) Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or
moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or ...
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Parched (37 Occurrences)
... (2) charer, "burned" or "parched" (compare Arabic chariq, "burned"), is used in
the sense of dried up or arid in Jeremiah 17:6. (3) tsicheh, is used in Isaiah 5 ...
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Cucumbers (3 Occurrences)
... In the East its cooling pulp and juice are most refreshing. "We need not altogether
wonder that the Israelites, wearily marching through the arid solitudes of ...
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Arabia (9 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Arid, an extensive region in the south-west
of Asia. It is bounded on the west by the Isthmus of Suez ...
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Aridai (1 Occurrence)

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Ariarathes
Ariarathes. Arguments, Ariarathes. Arid . Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia ...
a-ri-a-ra'-thez. See ARATHES. Arguments, Ariarathes. Arid . Reference Bible.
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South (170 Occurrences)
... Hebrews Negeb, that arid district to the south of Palestine through which lay the
caravan route from Central Palestine to Egypt (Genesis 12:9; 13:1, 3; 46:1-6 ...
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Bible Concordance

Arid (2 Occurrences)

Matthew 12:43 But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn't find it.
(See NIV)

Luke 11:24 The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says,'I will turn back to my house from which I came out.'
(See NIV)

Subtopics

Arid

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