ΧΕΡΣΩ, χερσω
CHERSŌ, chersō
Sounds Like: kher-SOH
Translations: to make dry, to lay waste, to make barren, to devastate
From the root: ΧΕΡΣΟΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This verb means to make something dry, barren, or desolate. It implies a process of drying up or laying waste to land, rendering it unproductive or uninhabitable. It can be used to describe the devastation of an area.
Inflection: First Person Singular, Present Active Indicative
Strong’s number: G5505 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 15 — 9:334
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΧΕΡΣΟΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΚΕΧΕΡΣΩΜΕΝΗ — laid waste, desolate, made desolate, a desolate (land)
- ΚΕΧΕΡΣΩΜΕΝΟΙ — laid waste, desolated, made desolate, those who have been laid waste
- ΧΕΡΣΟΥΝΤΑΙ — are laid waste, become desolate, are made desolate, are left barren
- ΧΕΡΣΟΩ — I dry up, I make desolate, I lay waste, I become dry, I become desolate
- ΧΕΡΣΩΘΕΝΤΕΣ — having been laid waste, having been made desolate, having been dried up, having become barren
- ΧΕΡΣΩΘΗΣΕΤΑΙ — will be laid waste, will be desolated, will become dry
- ΧΕΡΣΩΘΗΣΟΝΤΑΙ — they will be made dry, they will be laid waste, they will be desolated
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