to dry
xeraino describes becoming dry or withered, chiefly of vegetation and also of bodily conditions and water.
The attested usage most often describes vegetation becoming dry, withered, or otherwise lacking vitality, including grass, seed, branches, fig trees, and harvest. It also appears for bodily conditions and fluid, and once for a river's water being dried up.
Senses in use
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Vegetation becoming dry or withered · dominant
This is the prevailing use: passive forms describe grass, a branch, seed, fig trees, and harvest in states of drying or withering. In James 1:11 the APB renders the sun's effect on grass as “dried the grass”; in Matthew 21:19 it renders the fig tree's immediate condition as “dried,” while Revelation 14:15 describes the earth's harvest as “dry.”
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A dried or rigid bodily condition · common
The term is used with bodily referents in differing clauses: Mark 3:1 identifies a man with a hand the APB renders “withered,” and Mark 5:29 says that her flow of blood “dried up.” In Mark 9:18, the present passive form occurs in a description the APB renders “becomes rigid.”
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Water being dried up · rare
In Revelation 16:12, an aorist passive form is used when the bowl is poured on the Euphrates; the APB renders the resulting clause, “its water was dried up,” in preparation for a way from the east.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the clauses with “withered,” “dried,” “dried up,” and “dry,” while Mark 9:18 has “becomes rigid.” These are verse-level renderings rather than definitions.