Wither
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"to dry up, parch, wither," is translated "to wither," (a) of plants, Matthew 13:6; 21:19,20; Mark 4:6; 11:20 , RV (AV, "dried up"),21; Luke 8:6; John 15:6; James 1:11; 1—Peter 1:24; (b) of members of the body, Mark 3:1 , and, in some texts, 3. See Dry , B, OVERRIPE, Pine Away , Ripe.
Dry Jude 1:12Autumn.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words [2]
Yâbêsh ( יָבֵשׁ , Strong'S #3001), “to be dry, be dried up, be withered.” This term is found throughout the development of the Hebrew language and a few other Semitic languages. It is found approximately 70 times in the Hebrew Old Testament. In its verbal form yâbêsh is found for the first time in Gen. 8:7, when after the Flood, “the waters were dried up from the earth.” However, the noun derivative, yabbashah , which means “dry ground,” already occurs in Gen. 1:9.
Physical “drying up” can involve bread (Josh. 9:5), the ground in time of drought (Jer. 23:10; Amos 4:7), brooks and streams (1 Kings 17:7), and crops (Isa. 42:15). The shortness of man’s life is compared to the “drying up” of grass (Ps. 90:6; 102:11; Isa. 40:7). Because of affliction, the heart too “withers” like the grass (Ps. 102:4). In his parable of the vine, Ezekiel likens God’s judgment on Judah to the “withering” of a vine that is pulled up (Ezek. 17:9-10). Because of his disobedience, Jeroboam’s hand “is dried up” as judgment from God (1 Kings 13:4). Psychosomatic awareness is clearly demonstrated in Prov. 17:22: “… A broken spirit drieth the bones.”
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): ( n.) To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away.
(2): ( n.) To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin/ away, as animal bodies.
(3): ( v. t.) To cause to languish, perish, or pass away; to blight; as, a reputation withered by calumny.
(4): ( v. t.) To cause to shrink, wrinkle, or decay, for want of animal moisture.
(5): ( v. t.) To cause to fade, and become dry.
(6): ( n.) To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up.
King James Dictionary [4]
1. To fade to lose its native freshness to become sapless to dry.
It shall wither in all the leaves of her spring. Ezekiel 17 .
2. To waste to pine away as animal bodies as a withered hand. Matthew 12 . 3. To lose or want animal moisture.
Now warm in love, now withring in the grave.
WITHER,
1. To cause to fade and become dry as, the sun withereth the grass. James 1 . 2. To cause to shrink, wrinkle and decay, for want of animal moisture.
Age cannot wither her.
