The corpus record

χερσ-όω

chersoo

make into dry land

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Where it lives

Nahum 1 · 10.83/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k
Jeremias 1 · 0.36/10k

What it meant — LSJ

make into dry land, make dry and barren, to be left dry and barren

make into dry land, Tz. H. 2.27; make dry and barren, BGU 195.19 (ii A. D.):—Pass., to be left dry and barren, γῆ κεχερσωμένη Plu. Lib.educ. 2.10d, LXX Pr. 24.46 (31), PTeb. 5.94 (ii B. C.), cf. IGRom. 4.147 (Cyzicus).

In the wild

κεχερσωμένη · kechersōmenē Septuaginta, Jeremias 2
χερσωθήσεται · chersōthēsetai Septuaginta, Nahum 1
χερσωθήσεται · chersōthēsetai Septuaginta, Proverbia 30 (DIORISIS sentence 541)
χερσωθήσονται · chersōthēsontai Septuaginta, Sapientia Salomonis 4

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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