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Lexicon :: Strong's G2049 - erēmoō

Aa
ἐρημόω
Transliteration
erēmoō (Key)
Pronunciation
er-ay-mo'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:657,255

Strong’s Definitions

ἐρημόω erēmóō, er-ay-mo'-o; from G2048; to lay waste (literally or figuratively):—(bring to, make) desolate(-ion), come to nought.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's G2049 in the following manner: bring to desolation (2x), desolate (1x), come to nought (1x), make desolate (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's G2049 in the following manner: bring to desolation (2x), desolate (1x), come to nought (1x), make desolate (1x).

  1. to make desolate, lay waste

  2. to ruin, bring to desolation

  3. to despoil one, strip her of her treasures

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐρημόω erēmóō, er-ay-mo'-o; from G2048; to lay waste (literally or figuratively):—(bring to, make) desolate(-ion), come to nought.
STRONGS G2049:
ἐρημόω, -ῶ: passive, [present 3 person singular (cf. Buttmann, 38 (33)) ἐρημοῦται]; perfect participle ἠρημωμένος; 1 aorist ἠρημώθην; (ἔρημος); from Herodotus down; Sept. usually for חָרֵב, הֶחֱרִיב, שָׁמֵם; to make desolate, lay waste; in the N. T. only in the passive: πόλιν, Revelation 18:19; to ruin, bring to desolation: βασιλείαν, Matthew 12:25; Luke 11:17; to reduce to naught: πλοῦτον, Revelation 18:17 (Revelation 18:16); ἠρημωμένην καὶ γυμνὴν ποιεῖν τινα, to despoil one, strip her of her treasures, Revelation 17:16.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
12:25
Luke
11:17
Revelation
17:16; 18:16; 18:17; 18:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2049 matches the Greek ἐρημόω (erēmoō),
which occurs 52 times in 48 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:19 - wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:22 - And I will send the beast of the field among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your ways shall become desolate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:43 - The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths, while it lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected mine ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withes that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:8 - Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withes which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:17 - Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:15 - that search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time; for which cause was this city laid waste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3 - And I said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:11 -
As the waters fail from the sea,
And the river wasteth and drieth up;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:25 -
Let their habitation be desolate;
Let none dwell in their tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:7 -
For they have devoured Jacob,
And laid waste his habitation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 - Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 - Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:15 - And Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind will he wave his hand over the River, and will smite it into seven streams, and cause men to march over dryshod.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:13 - Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness; they set up their towers; they overthrew the palaces thereof; they made it a ruin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:1 - Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:10 - The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 - The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: the enemy hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth not man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:10 - It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:18 - Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries, and their land,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:25 - I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:27 - that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:17 - Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:10 - Is it not thou that driedst up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3 - For thou shalt spread abroad on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:12 - For that nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 - Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:25 - Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name; for they have devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:9 - Why hast thou prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? And all the people were gathered unto Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:10 - Thus saith Jehovah: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, whereof ye say, It is waste, without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:36 - Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1 -
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!
She is become as a widow, that was great among the nations!
She that was a princess among the provinces is become tributary!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:2 - Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gate of the peoples; she is turned unto me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19 - For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and the great waters shall cover thee;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7 - And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:15 - When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24 - Son of man, they that inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27 - Thus shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As I live, surely they that are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured; and they that are in the strongholds and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:28 - And I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:29 - Then shall they know that I am Jehovah, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:3 - and say unto it, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, O mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will make thee a desolation and an astonishment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:7 - Thus will I make mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him that passeth through and him that returneth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10 - and I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be builded;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12 - to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn thy hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and against the people that are gathered out of the nations, that have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the middle of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:11 - Yea, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the host; and it took away from him the continual burnt-offering, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:11 - Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An adversary there shall be, even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be plundered.
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