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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
Dictionary Aids

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 1 / 7 (Gen 12:9–Num 10:12)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:9 - Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the [fn]Negev.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1 - So Abram went up from Egypt to the [fn]Negev, he and his wife and all that belonged to him, and Lot with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3 - He went [fn]on his journeys from the [fn]Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:6 - and the Horites in their Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is by the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:7 - Now the angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a [fn]skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:20 - God was with the lad, and he grew; and he [fn]lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:21 - He [fn]lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:62 - Now Isaac had come from going to Beer-lahai-roi; for he [fn]was living in the [fn]Negev.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:24 - These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah—he is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness when he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:22 - Reuben further said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not lay hands on him”—that he might rescue him out of their hands, to restore him to his father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:1 - Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the [fn]west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:18 - “They will [fn]pay heed to what you say; and you with the elders of Israel will come to the king of Egypt and you will say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, please, let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:27 - Now the LORD said to Aaron, “Go to meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:1 - And afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Let My people go that they may celebrate a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:3 - Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please, let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, otherwise He will fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:16 - “You shall say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness. But behold, you have not listened until now.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:20 - Now the LORD said to Moses, “Rise early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh, [fn]as he comes out to the water, and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:27 - “We must go a three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He [fn]commands us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:28 - Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away. Make supplication for me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18 - Hence God led the people around by the way of the wilderness to the [fn]Red Sea; and the sons of Israel went up in martial array from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:20 - Then they set out from Succoth and camped in Etham on the edge of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:3 - “For Pharaoh will say of the sons of Israel, ‘They are wandering aimlessly in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:11 - Then they said to Moses, “Is it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you dealt with us in this way, [fn]bringing us out of Egypt?

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:12 - “Is this not the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘[fn]Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22 - Then Moses [fn]led Israel from the [fn]Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:1 - Then they set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the sons of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:3 - The sons of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the LORD’S hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of [fn]meat, when we ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:10 - It came about as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, that they [fn]looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:14 - When the layer of dew [fn]evaporated, behold, on the [fn]surface of the wilderness there was a fine flake-like thing, fine as the frost on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:32 - Then Moses said, “This is [fn]what the LORD has commanded, ‘Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread that I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:1 - Then all the congregation of the sons of Israel journeyed by [fn]stages from the wilderness of Sin, according to the [fn]command of the LORD, and camped at Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:5 - Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses [fn]in the wilderness where he was camped, at the mount of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:1 - In the third month after the sons of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, [fn]on that very day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:2 - When they set out from Rephidim, they came to the wilderness of Sinai and camped in the wilderness; and there Israel camped in front of the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:29 - “I will not drive them out before you in a single year, that the land may not become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - “I will fix your boundary from the [fn]Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River Euphrates; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 7:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:38 - which the LORD commanded Moses at Mount Sinai in the day that He commanded the sons of Israel to [fn]present their offerings to the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:10 - “But the goat on which the lot for the [fn]scapegoat fell shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make atonement upon it, to send it into the wilderness as the [fn]scapegoat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:21 - “Then Aaron shall lay both of his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the sons of Israel and all their transgressions [fn]in regard to all their sins; and he shall lay them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who stands in readiness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:22 - “The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to a solitary land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31 - ‘I will [fn]lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - ‘You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:1 - Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:19 - just as the LORD had commanded Moses. So he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:4 - But Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered strange fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai; and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests [fn]in the lifetime of their father Aaron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:14 - Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:1 - Thus the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - They observed the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:12 - and the sons of Israel set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai. Then the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.

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