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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
Dictionary Aids

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 35 times in 34 verses in 'Eze' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:14 - And I will make thee desolate, and thy daughters round about thee, in the sight of every one that passes through.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:14 - And I will stretch out my hand against them, and I will make the land desolate and ruined from the wilderness of Deblatha, in all their habitations: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:4 - Thy prophets, O Israel, are like foxes in the deserts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:8 - And I will set my face against that man, and will make him desolate and ruined, and will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:13 - And now they have planted her in the wilderness, in a dry land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:10 - And I brought them into the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:13 - And I said to the house of Israel in the wilderness, Walk ye in my commandments: but they walked not in them, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them; and they grievously profaned my sabbaths: and I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:15 - But I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness once for all, that I would not bring them into the land which I gave them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is sweeter than all lands:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:17 - Yet mine eyes spared them, so as not to destroy them utterly, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:18 - And I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk not ye in the customs of your fathers, and keep not their ordinances, and have no fellowship with their practices, nor defile yourselves with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:21 - But they provoked me, and their children walked not in my commandments, and they took no heed to mine ordinances to do them, which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them, and they profaned my sabbaths: then I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to accomplish mine anger upon them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:23 - I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles, and disperse them in the countries;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:35 - And I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and will plead with you there face to face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:36 - As I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I judge you, saith the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:42

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:42 - and they raised a sound of music, and that with men coming from the wilderness out of a multitude of men, and they put bracelets on their hands, and a crown of glory on their heads;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:13 - therefore thus saith the Lord; I will also stretch out my hand upon Idumea, and will utterly destroy out of it man and beast; and will make it desolate; and they that are pursued out of Thæman shall fall by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:20 - and great waters shall cover thee; and I shall bring thee down to them that go down to the pit, to the people of old time, and shall cause thee to dwell in the depths of the earth, as in everlasting desolation, with them that go down to the pit, that thou mayest not be inhabited, nor stand upon the land of life;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:9 - and the land of Egypt shall be ruined and desert; and they shall know that I am the Lord; because thou sayest, The rivers are mine, and I made them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - Therefore, behold, I am against thee, and against all thy rivers, and I will give up the land of Egypt to desolation, and the sword, and destruction, from Magdol and Syene even to the borders of the Ethiopians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:12 - And I will make their rivers desolate, and will destroy the land and the fulness of it by the hands of strangers: I the Lord have spoken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:28 - And I will make the land desert, and the pride of her strength shall perish; and the mountains of Israel shall be made desolate by reason of no man passing through.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:29 - And they shall know that I am the Lord; and I will make their land desert, and it shall be made desolate because of all their abominations which they have wrought.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:25 - And I will make with David a covenant of peace, and I will utterly destroy evil beasts from off the land; and they shall dwell in the wilderness, and sleep in the forests.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:3 - and say to it, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and will make thee a waste, and thou shalt be made desolate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:4 - And I will cause desolation in thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:7 - And I will make mount Seir a waste, and desolate, and I will destroy from off it men and cattle:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:12 - and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. I have heard the voice of thy blasphemies, whereas thou hast said, The desert mountains of Israel are given to us for food;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:14 - Thus saith the Lord; When all the earth is rejoicing, I will make thee desert.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:15 - Thou shalt be desert, O mount Seir, and all Idumea; and it shall be utterly consumed: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord their God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:2 - Thus saith the Lord God; Because the enemy has said against you, Aha, the old waste places are become a possession for us:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:33 - Thus saith the Lord God; In the day wherein I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities I will also cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built upon:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:35 - And they shall say, That desolate land is become like a garden of delight; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are inhabited.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:38

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:38 - as holy sheep, as the sheep of Jerusalem in her feasts; thus shall the desert cities be full of flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:8 - He shall be prepared after many days, and he shall come at the end of years, and shall come to a land that is brought back from the sword, when the people are gathered from many nations against the land of Israel, which was entirely desolate: and he is come forth out of the nations, and they shall all dwell securely.
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