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Lexicon :: Strong's G2048 - erēmos

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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)].
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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 338 times in 315 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 7 (Gen 12:9–Num 10:12)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:9 - Abram continually journeyed by stages down to the Negev.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1 - So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3 - And he journeyed from place to place from the Negev as far as Bethel. He returned to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:6 - and the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is near the desert.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:7 - The LORD's angel found Hagar near a spring of water in the desert - the spring that is along the road to Shur.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:20 - God was with the boy as he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:21 - He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:62 - Now Isaac came from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:24 - These were the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah (who discovered the hot springs in the wilderness as he pastured the donkeys of his father Zibeon).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:22 - Reuben continued, "Don't shed blood! Throw him into this cistern that is here in the wilderness, but don't lay a hand on him." (Reuben said this so he could rescue Joseph from them and take him back to his father.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:1 - Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:18 - "The elders will listen to you, and then you and the elders of Israel must go to the king of Egypt and tell him, 'The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:27 - The LORD said to Aaron, "Go to the wilderness to meet Moses. So he went and met him at the mountain of God and greeted him with a kiss.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:1 - Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Release my people so that they may hold a pilgrim feast to me in the desert.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:3 - And they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go a three-day journey into the desert so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, so that he does not strike us with plague or the sword."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:16 - Tell him, 'The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you to say, "Release my people, that they may serve me in the desert!" But until now you have not listened.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:20 - The LORD said to Moses, "Get up early in the morning and position yourself before Pharaoh as he goes out to the water, and tell him, 'Thus says the LORD, "Release my people that they may serve me!

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:27 - We must go on a three-day journey into the desert and sacrifice to the LORD our God, just as he is telling us."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:28 - Pharaoh said, "I will release you so that you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the desert. Only you must not go very far. Do pray for me."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18 - So God brought the people around by the way of the desert to the Red Sea, and the Israelites went up from the land of Egypt prepared for battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:20 - They journeyed from Sukkoth and camped in Etham, on the edge of the desert.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:3 - Pharaoh will think regarding the Israelites, 'They are wandering around confused in the land - the desert has closed in on them.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:11 - and they said to Moses, "Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:12 - Isn't this what we told you in Egypt, 'Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22 - Then Moses led Israel to journey away from the Red Sea. They went out to the Desert of Shur, walked for three days into the desert, and found no water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:1 - When they journeyed from Elim, the entire company of Israelites came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their exodus from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:3 - The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this desert to kill this whole assembly with hunger!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:10 - As Aaron spoke to the whole community of the Israelites and they looked toward the desert, there the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:14 - When the layer of dew had evaporated, there on the surface of the desert was a thin flaky substance, thin like frost on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:32 - Moses said, "This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Fill an omer with it to be kept for generations to come, so that they may see the food I fed you in the desert when I brought you out from the land of Egypt.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:1 - The whole community of the Israelites traveled on their journey from the Desert of Sin according to the LORD's instruction, and they pitched camp in Rephidim. Now there was no water for the people to drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:5 - Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, together with Moses' sons and his wife, came to Moses in the desert where he was camping by the mountain of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:1 - In the third month after the Israelites went out from the land of Egypt, on the very day, they came to the Desert of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:2 - After they journeyed from Rephidim, they came to the Desert of Sinai, and they camped in the desert; Israel camped there in front of the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:29 - I will not drive them out before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals multiply against you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - I will set your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River, for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 7:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:38 - which the LORD commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:10 - but the goat which has been designated by lot for Azazel is to be stood alive before the LORD to make atonement on it by sending it away to Azazel into the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:21 - Aaron is to lay his two hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities of the Israelites and all their transgressions in regard to all their sins, and thus he is to put them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man standing ready.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:22 - The goat is to bear on itself all their iniquities into an inaccessible land, so he is to send the goat away in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31 - I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:1 - Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the wilderness of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites departed from the land of Egypt. He said:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:19 - just as the LORD had commanded Moses. And so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:4 - Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered strange fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priests in the presence of Aaron their father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:14 - Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:1 - The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - And they observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight in the wilderness of Sinai; in accordance with all that the LORD had commanded Moses, so the Israelites did.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:12 - So the Israelites set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud settled in the wilderness of Paran.

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