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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 3 / 7 (Deu 4:43–2Sa 15:23)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:43 - Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:45

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:45 - These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules, which Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:4 - “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:22 - The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once,[fn] lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:15 - who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:16 - who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:7 - Remember and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:28 - lest the land from which you brought us say, “Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:5 - and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:24 - Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be from the wilderness to[fn] the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:5 - I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:10 - “He found him in a desert land,
and in the howling waste of the wilderness;
he encircled him, he cared for him,
he kept him as the apple of his eye.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:51

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:51 - because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, and because you did not treat me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:3 - the Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:4 - From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:6 - For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:8 - in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites):

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:10 - And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:1 - The allotment for the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans reached southward to the boundary of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin at the farthest south.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:21 - The cities belonging to the tribe of the people of Judah in the extreme south, toward the boundary of Edom, were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:1 - The allotment of the people of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:8 - And beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they appointed Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland, from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 21:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:36 - and out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its pasturelands, Jahaz with its pasturelands,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 21:42

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:42 - These cities each had its pasturelands around it. So it was with all these cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:7 - And when they cried to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians and made the sea come upon them and cover them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness a long time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:16 - And the descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad, and they went and settled with the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:7 - So Gideon said, “Well then, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:16 - And he took the elders of the city, and he took thorns of the wilderness and briers and with them taught the men of Succoth a lesson.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:16 - but when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:18 - “Then they journeyed through the wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab and arrived on the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:22 - And they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:42

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:42 - Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel in the direction of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them. And those who came out of the cities were destroying them in their midst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45 - And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. Five thousand men of them were cut down in the highways. And they were pursued hard to Gidom, and 2,000 men of them were struck down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:47 - But 600 men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon and remained at the rock of Rimmon four months.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:8 - Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:14 - And David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:24 - And they arose and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:25 - And Saul and his men went to seek him. And David was told, so he went down to the rock and lived in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 24:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:1 - [fn] When Saul returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:1 - Now Samuel died. And all Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:4 - David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:7 - I hear that you have shearers. Now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, and they missed nothing all the time they were in Carmel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:14 - But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master, and he railed at them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:21 - Now David had said, “Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him, and he has returned me evil for good.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:2 - So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph with three thousand chosen men of Israel to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:3 - And Saul encamped on the hill of Hachilah, which is beside the road on the east of Jeshimon. But David remained in the wilderness. When he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:24 - But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. And as the sun was going down they came to the hill of Ammah, which lies before Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:18 - And all his servants passed by him, and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath, passed on before the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:23 - And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.

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