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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.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:19 - “Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for [fn]food, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharaoh. So give us seed, so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:22 - ‘I will also let loose among you the animals of the field, which will deprive you of your children and eliminate your cattle, and reduce your number so that your roads become deserted.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - ‘I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and [fn]pile your [fn]remains on the [fn]remains of your idols, for My soul will loathe you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:43 - ‘For the land will be abandoned by them, and will restore its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making amends for their wrongdoing, [fn]because they rejected My ordinances and their soul loathed My statutes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - And Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh [fn]animal tendons that have not been dried, then I will become weak and be like any other man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:8 - Then the governors of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh [fn]animal tendons that had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:17 - “It is true, LORD; the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:15 - so that a search may be conducted in the record books of your fathers. And you will discover in the record books and learn that that city is a rebellious city and detrimental to kings and provinces, and that they have revolted within it in past days; for this reason that city was laid waste.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3 - And I said to the king, “May the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad when the city, the [fn]site of my fathers’ tombs, is desolate and its gates have been consumed by fire?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:11 -

As water [fn]evaporates from the sea,

And a river becomes parched and dried up,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:25 -

May their [fn]camp be desolated;

May there be none living in their tents.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:7 -

For they have devoured Jacob

And laid waste his [fn]settlement.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 -

Your land is desolate,

Your cities are burned with fire;

As for your fields, strangers are devouring them in front of you;

It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 -

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered,

“Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant,

Houses are without people

And the land is utterly desolate,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:15 -

And the LORD will [fn]utterly destroy

The tongue of the [fn]Sea of Egypt;

And He will wave His hand over the Euphrates River

With His scorching wind;

And He will strike it into seven streams

And make people walk over in dry sandals.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:13 -

Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people that did not exist; Assyria allocated it for desert creatures—they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:1 -

Behold, the LORD lays the earth waste, devastates it, twists its surface, and scatters its inhabitants.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:10 -

The city of chaos is broken down;

Every house is shut up so that no one may enter.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 -

The highways are desolate, [fn]the traveler has ceased,

He has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities,

He has no regard for mankind.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:10 -

It will not be extinguished night or day;

Its smoke will go up forever.

From generation to generation it will be desolate;

None will pass through it forever and ever.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:18 - “Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries and their lands,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:25 -

‘I dug wells and drank waters,

And with the sole of my feet I dried up

All the canals of [fn]Egypt.’

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:27 -

I am the One who says to the depth of the sea, ‘Dry up!’

And I will make your rivers dry up.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:17 -

“Your [fn]builders hurry;

Your destroyers and devastators

Will leave you.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:10 -

Was it not You who dried up the sea,

The waters of the great deep;

Who made the depths of the sea a pathway

For the redeemed to cross over?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3 -

“For you will spread out to the right and to the left.

And your [fn]descendants will possess nations

And will resettle the desolate cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:12 -

“For the nation and the kingdom which will not serve you will perish,

And the nations will be utterly ruined.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 -

“Raise your eyes to the bare heights and see;

Where have you not been violated?

You have sat for them by the roads

Like an Arab in the desert,

And you have defiled a land

With your prostitution and your wickedness.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:25 -

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You,

And on the families who do not call upon Your name;

For they have devoured Jacob;

They have devoured him and consumed him,

And have laid waste his [fn]settlement.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:9 - “Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘This house will be like Shiloh and this city will be in ruins, without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered to Jeremiah at the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:10 -

“This is what the LORD says: ‘Yet again there will be heard in this place, of which you say, “It is a waste, without man and without animal,” that is, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted, without man and without inhabitant and without animal,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:36 -

Therefore this is what the LORD says:

“Behold, I am going to plead your case

And take vengeance for you;

And I will dry up her [fn]sea

And make her fountain dry.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1 -

How lonely sits the city

That once had many people!

She has become like a widow

Who was once great among the nations!

She who was a princess among the [fn]provinces

Has become a forced laborer!

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:2 - “Son of man, because Tyre has said in regard to Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gateway of the peoples is broken; it has [fn]opened to me. I shall be filled, now that she is laid waste,’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19 -

For this is what the Lord GOD says: “When I make you a desolate city, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - “So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of deserted lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate for forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7 -

“They will be desolate

In the midst of the desolated lands;

And her cities will be

In the midst of the devastated cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:15 -

“When I make the land of Egypt a desolation,

And the land is destitute of that which filled it,

When I strike all those who live in it,

Then they shall know that I am the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24 - “Son of man, they who live in these ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one, yet he possessed the land; so to us who are many the land has been given as a possession.’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27 - “You shall say this to them: ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: “As I live, those who are in the places of ruins certainly will fall by the sword, and whoever is in the [fn]open field I will give to the animals to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves will die of plague.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:28 - “And I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and the pride of her power will be brought to an end; and the mountains of Israel will be deserted so that no one will pass through.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:29 - “Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I make the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations which they have committed.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:3 - and say to it, ‘This is what the Lord [fn]GOD says:

“Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir,

And I will reach out with My hand against you

And make you a desolation and a waste.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:7 - “I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation and I will eliminate from it one who passes through and returns.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10 - ‘And I will multiply people on you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities will be inhabited and the ruins will be rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12 - to capture spoils and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the ruins that are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who live at the [fn]center of the world.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:11 - It even exalted itself [fn]to be equal with the [fn]Commander of the army; and it removed the regular sacrifice from Him, and the place of His sanctuary was overthrown.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:11 -

Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says:

“An enemy, one surrounding the land,

Will take down your fortifications from you,

And your citadels will be looted.”

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