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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 2 / 7 (Num 10:31–Deu 2:26)

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:31 - And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:16 - And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:3 - And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:17 - And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:21 - So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:22 - And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:26 - And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:2 - And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:16 - Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:22 - Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29 - Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:32 - But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33 - And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:35 - I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:32 - And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13 - Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:1 - Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:4 - And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:1 - And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:5 - And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:11 - And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:13 - From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:20 - And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:23 - And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:28 - And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:1 - And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:61

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:61 - And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:64

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:64 - But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:65

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:65 - For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:3 - Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:14 - For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13 - And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:15 - For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:6 - And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:8 - And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11 - And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:12 - And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:15 - And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:16 - And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibrothhattaavah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:36 - And they removed from Eziongaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3 - Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:1 - These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:19 - And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:31 - And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:40 - But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1 - Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:7 - For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:8 - And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:26 - And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

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