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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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:19 - Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh. Give us seed so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:22 - I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:43 - For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected my laws and abhorred my decrees.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - Samson answered her, “If anyone ties me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I’ll become as weak as any other man.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:8 - Then the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:17 - “It is true, LORD, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:15 - so that a search may be made in the archives of your predecessors. In these records you will find that this city is a rebellious city, troublesome to kings and provinces, a place with a long history of sedition. That is why this city was destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3 - but I said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face not look sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:11 - As the water of a lake dries up or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:25 - May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:7 - for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 - Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 - Then I said, “For how long, Lord?” And he answered: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:15 - The LORD will dry up the gulf of the Egyptian sea; with a scorching wind he will sweep his hand over the Euphrates River. He will break it up into seven streams so that anyone can cross over in sandals.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:13 - Look at the land of the Babylonians,[fn] this people that is now of no account! The Assyrians have made it a place for desert creatures; they raised up their siege towers, they stripped its fortresses bare and turned it into a ruin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:1 - See, the LORD is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants—

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:10 - The ruined city lies desolate; the entrance to every house is barred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 - The highways are deserted, no travelers are on the roads. The treaty is broken, its witnesses[fn] are despised, no one is respected.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:10 - It will not be quenched night or day; its smoke will rise forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever pass through it again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:18 - “It is true, LORD, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste all these peoples and their lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:25 - I have dug wells in foreign lands[fn] and drunk the water there. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:27 - who says to the watery deep, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your streams,’

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:17 - Your children hasten back, and those who laid you waste depart from you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:10 - Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea so that the redeemed might cross over?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3 - For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:12 - For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly ruined.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 - “Look up to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been ravished? By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers, sat like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:25 - Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the peoples who do not call on your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him completely and destroyed his homeland.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:9 - Why do you prophesy in the LORD’s name that this house will be like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted?” And all the people crowded around Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:10 - “This is what the LORD says: ‘You say about this place, “It is a desolate waste, without people or animals.” Yet in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted, inhabited by neither people nor animals, there will be heard once more

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:36 - Therefore this is what the LORD says: “See, I will defend your cause and avenge you; I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1 - How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations! She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:2 - “Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken, and its doors have swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will prosper,’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When I make you a desolate city, like cities no longer inhabited, and when I bring the ocean depths over you and its vast waters cover you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - I will make the land of Egypt desolate among devastated lands, and her cities will lie desolate forty years among ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:15 - When I make Egypt desolate and strip the land of everything in it, when I strike down all who live there, then they will know that I am the LORD.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24 - “Son of man, the people living in those 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 as our possession.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27 - “Say this to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: As surely as I live, those who are left in the ruins will fall by the sword, those out in the country I will give to the wild animals to be devoured, and those in strongholds and caves will die of a plague.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:28 - I will make the land a desolate waste, and her proud strength will come to an end, and the mountains of Israel will become desolate so that no one will cross them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:29 - Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolate waste because of all the detestable things they have done.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:3 - and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you and make you a desolate waste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:7 - I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and cut off from it all who come and go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10 - and I will cause many people to live on you—yes, all of Israel. The towns will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12 - I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land.[fn]”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:11 - It set itself up to be as great as the commander of the army of the LORD; it took away the daily sacrifice from the LORD, and his sanctuary was thrown down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:11 - Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “An enemy will overrun your land, pull down your strongholds and plunder your fortresses.”
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