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dry

Meaning of “dry”

Sense 1: Without moisture. Sense 2: To become or make free from moisture.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
71 occurrences66 verses22 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 1:9

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Isaiah 25:5
Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 25:5 · retained source text

Thou shalt bring downe the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; euen the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shalbe brought low.

Isaiah 32:2
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 32:2 · retained source text

And a man shall be as an hiding place from the winde, and a couert from the tempest: as riuers of water in a drie place, as the shadow of a great rocke in a wearie land.

1611 marginal noteHeb. heauie.

Isaiah 41:18
I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 41:18 · retained source text

I will open riuers in hie places, and fountaines in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wildernesse a poole of water, and the dry land springs of water.

1611 marginal noteChap.35.7. and 44.3.

1611 marginal notePsal. 107.35.

Isaiah 42:15
I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 42:15 · retained source text

I will make waste mountaines and hilles, and dry vp all their herbes, and I will make the riuers Ilands, and I will dry vp the pooles.

Isaiah 44:3
For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 44:3 · retained source text

For I will powre water vpon him that is thirstie, and floods vpon the dry ground: I will powre my spirit vpon thy seede, and my blessing vpon thine offspring:

1611 marginal noteCha. 35.7. ioel 2.28. ioh.7.38. acts 2.18.

Isaiah 44:27
That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 44:27 · retained source text

That saith to the deepe; Be dry, and I will drie vp thy riuers.

Isaiah 50:2
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 50:2 · retained source text

Wherefore when I came was there no man? when I called, was there none to answere? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeeme? or haue I no power to deliuer? Beholde, at my rebuke I drie vp the sea: I make the riuers a wildernes: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

1611 marginal noteNum. 11.23. chap. 59.1.

1611 marginal noteExod. 14.21.

1611 marginal noteIosh.3.16

Isaiah 53:2
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 53:2 · retained source text

For he shall grow vp before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a drie ground: hee hath no forme nor comelinesse: and when wee shall see him, there is no beautie that we should desire him.

Isaiah 56:3
¶ Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 56:3 · retained source text

¶ Neither let the sonne of the stranger, that hath ioyned himselfe to the LORD, speake, saying, The LORD hath vtterly separated mee from his people: neither let the Eunuch say, Behold, I am a drie tree.

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Historical definitions

To grow dry; to lose moisture; to become free from moisture or juice. To be exhaled; sometimes with up.

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