ξηρά (xera)

ξηρά is an Ancient Greek form of ξηρός, meaning “dry”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective or dative singular feminine adjective.

Found 72 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Andromache 637: ξηρὰ βαθεῖαν γῆν ἐνίκησε σπορᾷ,

Plutarch, Caius Marius 38.6: … ἔφασκεν ὡς διὰ θαλάσσης αὐτῷ μᾶλλον ἢ διὰ γῆς ὑποδείκνυσι σωτηρίαν τὸ δαιμόνιον τὸν γάρ ὄνον οὐ προσέχοντα τῇ ξηρᾷ τροφῇ πρὸς τὸ ὕδωρ ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ τραπέσθαι. ταῦτα διαλεχθεὶς τῇ Φαννίᾳ καθʼ αὑτὸν ἀνεπαύετο, τὴν θύραν τοῦ δωματί …

New Testament, Luke 6.6: Ἐγένετο δὲ ἐν ἑτέρῳ σαββάτῳ εἰσελθεῖν αὐτὸν εἰς τὴν συναγωγὴν καὶ διδάσκειν· καὶ ἦν ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖ καὶ ἡ χεὶρ αὐτοῦ ἡ δεξιὰ ἦν ξηρά·

All forms of ξηρός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.