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Lexicon :: Strong's G2049 - erēmoō

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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 - In order, then, that we die not before thee, and the land be made desolate, buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharao: give seed that we may sow, and live and not die, so our land shall not be made desolate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:22 - And I will send upon you the wild beasts of the land, and they shall devour you, and shall consume your cattle: and I will make you few in number, and your ways shall be desolate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - And I will render your pillars desolate, and will utterly destroy your wooden images made with hands; and I will lay your carcases on the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall loathe you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:43 - And I will remember the land, and the land shall be left of them; then the land shall enjoy her sabbaths, when it is deserted through them: and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquities, because they neglected my judgments, and in their soul loathed my ordinances.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - And Sampson said to her, If they bind me with seven moist cords that have not been spoiled, then shall I be weak and be as one of ordinary men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:8 - And the princes of the Philistines brought to her seven moist cords that had not been spoiled, and she bound him with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:17 - For truly, Lord, the kings of [fn]Assyria have wasted the nations,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:15 - that examination may be made in thy fathers' book of record; and thou shalt find, and thou shalt know that that city is rebellious, and does harm to kings and countries, and there are in the midst of it from very old time refuges for runaway slaves: therefore this city has been made desolate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3 - and I said to the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be said, forasmuch as the city, even the home of the sepulchres of my fathers, has been laid waste, and her gates have been devoured with fire?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:11 - For the sea wastes in length of time, and a river fails and is dried up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:25 - (LXX 68:26) [fn] Let their habitation be made desolate; and let there be no inhabitant in their tents:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:7 - (LXX 78:7) For they have devoured Jacob, and laid his place waste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 - Your land is desolate, your cities burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is made desolate, overthrown by strange nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 - And I said, How long, O Lord? And he said, Until the cities be deserted [fn]by reason of their not being inhabited, and the houses by reason of there being no men, and the land shall be left desolate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:15 - And the Lord shall make desolate the sea of Egypt; and he shall lay his hand on the river with a strong wind, and he shall [fn]smite the seven channels, so that men shall pass through it dry-shod.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:13 - And if thou depart to the land of the Chaldeans, this also is laid waste by the Assyrians, for her wall is fallen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:1 - Behold, the Lord is about to lay waste the world, and will make it desolate, and will lay bare the surface of it, and scatter them that dwell therein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:10 - All the city has become desolate: one shall shut his house so that none shall enter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 - For the ways of these shall be made desolate: the terror of the nations has been made to cease, and the covenant with these is taken away, and ye shall by no means deem them men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:10 - and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up: it shall be made desolate throughout her generations,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:18 - For of a truth, Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste the whole world, and the countries thereof,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:25 - and I have made a bridge, and dried up the waters, and every pool of water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:27 - Who says to the deep, Thou shalt be dried up, and I will dry up the rivers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:17 - And thou shalt soon be built by those by whom thou wert destroyed, and they that made thee desolate shall go forth of thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:10 - Art thou not it that dried the sea, the water, even the abundance of the deep; that made the depths of the sea a way of passage for the delivered and redeemed?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3 - spread forth thy tent yet to the right and the left: for thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and thou shalt make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:12 - For the nations and the kings which will not serve thee shall perish; and those nations shall be made utterly desolate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 - Lift up thine eyes to look straight forward, and see where thou hast not been utterly defiled. Thou hast sat for them by the wayside as a deserted crow, and hast defiled the land with thy fornications and thy wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:25 - Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the families that have not called upon thy name: for they have devoured Jacob, and consumed him, and have made his pasture desolate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:9 - (LXX 33:9) Thou shalt surely die, because thou hast prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, This house shall be as Selo, and this city shall be made quite destitute of inhabitants. And all the people assembled against Jeremias in the house of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:10 - (LXX 40:10) Thus saith the Lord; There shall yet be heard in this place, of which ye say, It is destitute of men and cattle, in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, the places that have been made desolate for want of men and cattle,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:36 - (LXX 28:36) Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will judge thine adversary, and I will execute vengeance for thee; and I will waste her sea, and dry up her fountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1 - (LXX 1:0) [And it came to pass, after Israel was taken captive, and Jerusalem made desolate, that Jeremias sat weeping, and lamented with this lamentation over Jerusalem, and said] (1:1) Aleph. How does the city that was filled with people sit solitary! she is become as a widow: she that was magnified among the nations, and princess among the provinces, has become tributary.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:2 - Son of man, because Sor has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is crushed: the nations are destroyed: she is turned to me: she that was full is made desolate:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19 - For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make the city desolate, as the cities that shall not be inhabited, when I have brought the deep up upon thee,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - And I will cause her land to be utterly destroyed in the midst of a land that is desolate, and her cities shall be desolate forty years in the midst of cities that are desolate: and I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and will utterly scatter them into the countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7 - And it shall be made desolate in the midst of desolate countries, and their cities shall be desolate in the midst of the desolate cities:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:15 - when I shall give up Egypt to destruction, and the land shall be made desolate with the fulness thereof; when I shall scatter all that dwell in it, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24 - Son of man, they that inhabit the desolate places on the land of Israel say, Abraam was one, and he possessed the land: and we are more numerous; to us the land is given for a possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27 - As I live, surely they that are in the desolate places shall fall by swords, and they that are in the open plain shall be given for food to the wild beasts of the field, and them that are in the fortified cities and them that are in the caves I will slay with pestilence.

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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 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 35:7

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 36:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10 - and I will multiply men upon you, even all the house of Israel to the end: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the desolate land shall be built upon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12 - to seize plunder, and to take their spoil; to turn my hands against the desolate land that is now inhabited, and against a nation that is gathered from many nations, that have acquired property, dwelling in the midst of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:11 - And this shall be until the chief captain shall have delivered the captivity: and by reason of him the sacrifice was disturbed, and he prospered; and the holy place shall be made desolate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:11 - Therefore thus saith the Lord God; O Tyre, thy land shall be made desolate round about thee; and he shall bring down thy strength out of thee, and thy countries shall be spoiled.
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