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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 Box Gen 47:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:19 - Why should we die before your very eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we, with our land, will become Pharaoh's slaves. Give us seed that we may live and not die. Then the land will not become desolate."

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:22 - I will send the wild animals against you and they will bereave you of your children, annihilate your cattle, and diminish your population so that your roads will become deserted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:43 - The land will be abandoned by them in order that it may make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them, and they will make up for their iniquity because they have rejected my regulations and have abhorred my statutes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - Samson said to her, "If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become weak and be just like any other man."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:8 - So the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings which had not been dried and they tied him up with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:17 - It is true, LORD, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:15 - so that he may initiate a search of the records of his predecessors and discover in those records that this city is rebellious and injurious to both kings and provinces, producing internal revolts from long ago. It is for this very reason that this city was destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3 - I replied to the king, "O king, live forever! Why would I not appear dejected when the city with the graves of my ancestors lies desolate and its gates destroyed by fire?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:11 - As water disappears from the sea, or a river drains away and dries up,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:25 - May their camp become desolate, their tents uninhabited!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 79:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:7 - For they have devoured Jacob and destroyed his home.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 - Your land is devastated, your cities burned with fire. Right before your eyes your crops are being destroyed by foreign invaders. They leave behind devastation and destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 - I replied, "How long, sovereign master?" He said, "Until cities are in ruins and unpopulated, and houses are uninhabited, and the land is ruined and devastated,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:15 - The LORD will divide the gulf of the Egyptian Sea; he will wave his hand over the Euphrates River and send a strong wind, he will turn it into seven dried-up streams, and enable them to walk across in their sandals.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:13 - Look at the land of the Chaldeans, these people who have lost their identity! The Assyrians have made it a home for wild animals. They erected their siege towers, demolished its fortresses, and turned it into a heap of ruins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:1 - Look, the LORD is ready to devastate the earth and leave it in ruins; he will mar its surface and scatter its inhabitants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:10 - The ruined town is shattered; all of the houses are shut up tight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 - Highways are empty, there are no travelers. Treaties are broken, witnesses are despised, human life is treated with disrespect.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:10 - Night and day it will burn; its smoke will ascend continually. Generation after generation it will be a wasteland and no one will ever pass through it again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:18 - It is true, LORD, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the nations and their lands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:25 - I dug wells and drank water. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:27 - who says to the deep sea, 'Be dry! I will dry up your sea currents,'

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:17 - Your children hurry back, while those who destroyed and devastated you depart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:10 - Did you not dry up the sea, the waters of the great deep? Did you not make a path through the depths of the sea, so those delivered from bondage could cross over?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 54:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3 - For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your children will conquer nations and will resettle desolate cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 60:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:12 - Indeed, nations or kingdoms that do not serve you will perish; such nations will be totally destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 - "Look up at the hilltops and consider this. You have had sex with other gods on every one of them. You waited for those gods like a thief lying in wait in the desert. You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution to other gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:25 - Vent your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you. Vent it on the peoples who do not worship you. For they have destroyed the people of Jacob. They have completely destroyed them and left their homeland in utter ruin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:9 - How dare you claim the LORD's authority to prophesy such things! How dare you claim his authority to prophesy that this temple will become like Shiloh and that this city will become an uninhabited ruin!" Then all the people crowded around Jeremiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:10 - "I, the LORD, say: 'You and your people are saying about this place, "It lies in ruins. There are no people or animals in it." That is true. The towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem will soon be desolate, uninhabited either by people or by animals. But happy sounds will again be heard in these places.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:36 - Therefore the LORD says, "I will stand up for your cause. I will pay the Babylonians back for what they have done to you. I will dry up their sea. I will make their springs run dry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1 - Alas! The city once full of people now sits all alone! The prominent lady among the nations has become a widow! The princess who once ruled the provinces has become a forced laborer! ב (Bet)

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:2 - "Son of man, because Tyre has said about Jerusalem, 'Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I will become rich, now that she has been destroyed,'

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19 - "For this is what the sovereign LORD says: When I make you desolate like the uninhabited cities, when I bring up the deep over you and the surging waters overwhelm you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - I will turn the land of Egypt into a desolation in the midst of desolate lands; for forty years her cities will lie desolate in the midst of ruined cities. I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7 - They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will be among ruined cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:15 - When I turn the land of Egypt into desolation and the land is destitute of everything that fills it, when I strike all those who live in it, then they will know that I am the LORD.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24 - "Son of man, the ones living in these ruins in the land of Israel are saying, 'Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land, but we are many; surely the land has been given to us for a possession.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27 - "This is what you must say to them, 'This is what the sovereign LORD says: As surely as I live, those living in the ruins will die by the sword, those in the open field I will give to the wild beasts for food, and those who are in the strongholds and caves will die of disease.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:28 - I will turn the land into a desolate ruin; her confident pride will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will be so desolate no one will pass through them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:29 - Then they will know that I am the LORD when I turn the land into a desolate ruin because of all the abominable deeds they have committed.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:3 - Say to it, 'This is what the sovereign LORD says: "'Look, I am against you, Mount Seir; I will stretch out my hand against you and turn you into a desolate ruin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:7 - I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate ruin; I will cut off from it the one who passes through or returns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10 - I will multiply your people - the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities will be populated and the ruins rebuilt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12 - to loot and plunder, to attack the inhabited ruins and the people gathered from the nations, who are acquiring cattle and goods, who live at the center of the earth."

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:11 - It also acted arrogantly against the Prince of the army, from whom the daily sacrifice was removed and whose sanctuary was thrown down.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:11 - Therefore," says the sovereign LORD, "an enemy will encircle the land. He will take away your power; your fortresses will be looted."
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