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Lexicon :: Strong's G2048 - erēmos

Aa
ἔρημος
Transliteration
erēmos (Key)
Pronunciation
er'-ay-mos
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain affinity
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:657,255

Strong’s Definitions

ἔρημος érēmos, er'-ay-mos; of uncertain affinity; lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually as a noun, G5561 being implied):—desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 50x

The KJV translates Strong's G2048 in the following manner: wilderness (32x), desert (13x), desolate (4x), solitary (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 50x
The KJV translates Strong's G2048 in the following manner: wilderness (32x), desert (13x), desolate (4x), solitary (1x).

  1. solitary, lonely, desolate, uninhabited

    1. used of places

      1. a desert, wilderness

      2. deserted places, lonely regions

      3. an uncultivated region fit for pasturage

    2. used of persons

      1. deserted by others

      2. deprived of the aid and protection of others, especially of friends, acquaintances, kindred

      3. bereft

        1. of a flock deserted by the shepherd

        2. of a woman neglected by her husband, from whom the husband withholds himself

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἔρημος érēmos, er'-ay-mos; of uncertain affinity; lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually as a noun, G5561 being implied):—desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness.
STRONGS G2048:
ἔρημος, -ον, (in classic Greek also -ος, -η, -ον, cf. Winers Grammar § 11, 1; [Buttmann, 25 (23); on its accent cf. Chandler §§ 393, 394; Winer's Grammar, 52 (51)]);
1. adjective solitary, lonely, desolate, uninhabited: of places, Matthew 14:13, 15; Mark 1:35; Mark 6:32; Luke 4:42; Luke 9:10 [R G L], Luke 9:12; Acts 1:20, etc.; ἡ ὁδός, leading through a desert, Acts 8:26 (2 Samuel 2:24 Sept.), see Γάζα, under the end. of persons: deserted by others; deprived of the aid and protection of others, especially of friends, acquaintances, kindred; bereft; (so often by Greek writers of every age, as Aeschylus Ag. 862; Pers. 734; Aristophanes pax 112; ἔρημός τε καὶ ὑπὸ πάντων καταλειφθείς, Herodian, 2, 12, 12 [7 edition, Bekker]; of a flock deserted by the shepherd, Homer, Iliad 5, 140): γυνή, a woman neglected by her husband, from whom the husband withholds himself, Galatians 4:27, from Isaiah 54:1; of Jerusalem, bereft of Christ's presence, instruction and aid, Matthew 23:38 [L and WH texts omit]; Luke 13:35 Rec.; cf. Bleek, Erklär. d. drei ersten Evv. ii., p. 206 (cf. Baruch 4:19; Additions to Esther 8:27 (Esther 6:13); 2 Macc. 8:35).
2. a substantive, ἡ ἔρημος, namely, χώρα; Sept. often for מִדְבַּר; a desert, wilderness, (Herodotus 3, 102): Matthew 24:26; Revelation 12:6, 14; Revelation 17:3; αἱ ἔρημοι, desert places, lonely regions: Luke 1:80; Luke 5:16; Luke 8:29. an uncultivated region fit for pasturage, Luke 15:4. used of the desert of Judaea [cf. Winer's Grammar § 18, 1], Matthew 3:1; Mark 1:3; Luke 1:80; Luke 3:2, 4; John 1:23; of the desert of Arabia, Acts 7:30, 36, 38, 42, 44; 1 Corinthians 10:5; Hebrews 3:8, 17. Cf. Winers RWB under the word Wüste; Furrer in Sehenkel v. 680ff; [B. D., see under the words Desert and Wilderness (American edition)].
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Samuel
2:24
Esther
6:13
Isaiah
54:1
Matthew
3:1; 14:13; 14:15; 23:38; 24:26
Mark
1:3; 1:35; 6:32
Luke
1:80; 1:80; 3:2; 3:4; 4:42; 5:16; 8:29; 9:10; 9:12; 13:35; 15:4
John
1:23
Acts
1:20; 7:30; 7:36; 7:38; 7:42; 7:44; 8:26
1 Corinthians
10:5
Galatians
4:27
Hebrews
3:8; 3:17
Revelation
12:6; 12:14; 17:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2048 matches the Greek ἔρημος (erēmos),
which occurs 48 times in 48 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 3:1 - And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 3:3 - For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:1 - Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:7 - And when they were going away, Jesus, talking of John, said to all the people, What went you out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:13 - Now when it came to the ears of Jesus, he went away from there in a boat, to a waste place by himself: and the people hearing of it, went after him on foot from the towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:15 - And when evening had come, the disciples came to him, saying, This place is waste land, and the time is now past; send the people away so that they may go into the towns and get themselves food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:38

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:38 - See, your house is made waste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:26 - If, then, they say to you, See, he is in the waste land; go not out: See, he is in the inner rooms; put no faith in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:3 - The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight;

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:4 - John came, and gave baptism in the waste land, preaching baptism as a sign of forgiveness of sin for those whose hearts were changed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:12 - And straight away the Spirit sent him out into the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:13 - And he was in the waste land for forty days, being tested by Satan; and he was with the beasts; and the angels took care of him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:35 - And in the morning, a long time before daylight, he got up and went out to a quiet place, and there he gave himself up to prayer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:45

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:45 - But he went out, and made it public, giving an account of it everywhere, so that Jesus was no longer able to go openly into a town, but was outside in the waste land; and they came to him from every part.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:31

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:31 - And he said to them, Come away by yourselves to a quiet place, and take a rest for a time. Because there were a great number coming and going, and they had no time even for food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:32

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:32 - And they went away in the boat to a waste place by themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:35 - And at the end of the day, his disciples came to him and said, This place is waste land, and it is late:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:80

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:80 - And the child became tall, and strong in spirit; and he was living in the waste land till the day when he came before the eyes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:2 - When Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the word of the Lord came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:4 - As it says in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:1 - And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, came back from the Jordan, and was guided by the Spirit in the waste land

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:42 - And when it was day, he came out and went to a waste place; and great numbers of people came looking for him, and they came to him and would have kept him from going away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:16 - But he went away by himself to a waste place for prayer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:24 - And when the men who were sent by John had gone away, he said to the people, about John, What did you go out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:29 - For he gave an order to the evil spirit to come out of the man. For frequently it would take a grip of him: and he was kept under control, and prisoned with chains; but parting the chains in two, he would be sent by the driving of the evil spirit into waste places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:12 - And the day went on; and the twelve came to him and said, Send these people away so that they may go into the towns and the country round about and get resting-places and food for themselves, for we are in a waste place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:4 - What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if one of them gets loose and goes away, will not let the ninety-nine be in the waste land by themselves, and go after the wandering one, till he sees where it is?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:23 - He said, I am the voice of one crying in the waste land, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:14 - As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:31 - Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:49

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:49 - Your fathers took the manna in the waste land--and they are dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:54

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:54 - So Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near to the waste land, to a town named Ephraim, where he was for some time with the disciples.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:20 - For in the book of Psalms it says, Let his house be waste, and let no man be living in it: and, Let his position be taken by another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:30

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:30 - At the end of forty years, an angel came to him in the waste land of Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn-tree.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:36

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:36 - This man took them out, having done wonders and signs in Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the waste land, for forty years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:38

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:38 - This is the man who was in the church in the waste land with the angel who was talking to him in Sinai, and with our fathers; and to him were given the living words of God, so that he might give them to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:42

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:42 - But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:44

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:44 - Our fathers had the Tent of witness in the waste land, as God gave orders to Moses to make it after the design which he had seen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:26 - But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, Get up, and go to the south, to the road which goes from Jerusalem to Gaza, through the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:18 - And for about forty years he put up with their ways in the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:38

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:38 - Are you by chance the Egyptian who, before this, got the people worked up against the government and took four thousand men of the Assassins out into the waste land?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:5 - But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:27 - For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad; give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains; for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:8 - Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:17 - And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:6 - And the woman went in flight to the waste land, where she has a place made ready by God, so that there they may give her food a thousand, two hundred and sixty days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:14 - And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, so that she might go in flight into the waste land, to her place, where she is given food for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the snake.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 17:3 - And he took me away in the Spirit into a waste land: and I saw a woman seated on a bright red beast, full of evil names, having seven heads and ten horns,
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