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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 48 times in 48 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 3:1 - In those days John the Baptist came into the wilderness of Judea proclaiming,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 3:3 - For he is the one about whom Isaiah the prophet had spoken: "The voice of one shouting in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:1 - Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:7 - While they were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:13 - Now when Jesus heard this he went away from there privately in a boat to an isolated place. But when the crowd heard about it, they followed him on foot from the towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:15 - When evening arrived, his disciples came to him saying, "This is an isolated place and the hour is already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:38

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:38 - Look, your house is left to you desolate!

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:26 - So then, if someone says to you, 'Look, he is in the wilderness,' do not go out, or 'Look, he is in the inner rooms,' do not believe him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:3 - the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:4 - In the wilderness John the baptizer began preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:12 - The Spirit immediately drove him into the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:13 - He was in the wilderness forty days, enduring temptations from Satan. He was with wild animals, and angels were ministering to his needs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 1:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:35 - Then Jesus got up early in the morning when it was still very dark, departed, and went out to a deserted place, and there he spent time in prayer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 1:45

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:45 - But as the man went out he began to announce it publicly and spread the story widely, so that Jesus was no longer able to enter any town openly but stayed outside in remote places. Still they kept coming to him from everywhere.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 6:31

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:31 - He said to them, "Come with me privately to an isolated place and rest a while" (for many were coming and going, and there was no time to eat).

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 6:32

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:32 - So they went away by themselves in a boat to some remote place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 6:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:35 - When it was already late, his disciples came to him and said, "This is an isolated place and it is already very late.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 1:80

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:80 - And the child kept growing and becoming strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day he was revealed to Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:2 - during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:4 - As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one shouting in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:1 - Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:42 - The next morning Jesus departed and went to a deserted place. Yet the crowds were seeking him, and they came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:16 - Yet Jesus himself frequently withdrew to the wilderness and prayed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:24 - When John's messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:29 - For Jesus had started commanding the evil spirit to come out of the man. (For it had seized him many times, so he would be bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard. But he would break the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:12 - Now the day began to draw to a close, so the twelve came and said to Jesus, "Send the crowd away, so they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging and food, because we are in an isolated place."

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:4 - "Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:23 - John said, "I am the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way for the Lord,' as Isaiah the prophet said."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:14 - Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 6:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:31 - Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 6:49

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:49 - Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:54

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:54 - Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:20 - "For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'Let his house become deserted, and let there be no one to live in it,' and 'Let another take his position of responsibility.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:30

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:30 - "After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:36

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:36 - This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:38

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:38 - This is the man who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and he received living oracles to give to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:42

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:42 - But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:44

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:44 - Our ancestors had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as God who spoke to Moses ordered him to make it according to the design he had seen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:26 - Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Get up and go south on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." (This is a desert road.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:18 - For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:38

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:38 - Then you're not that Egyptian who started a rebellion and led the four thousand men of the 'Assassins' into the wilderness some time ago?"

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 10:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:5 - But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:27 - For it is written: "Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear children; break forth and shout, you who have no birth pains, because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than those of the woman who has a husband."

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:8 - "Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:17 - And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:6 - and she fled into the wilderness where a place had been prepared for her by God, so she could be taken care of for 1,260 days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:14 - But the woman was given the two wings of a giant eagle so that she could fly out into the wilderness, to the place God prepared for her, where she is taken care of - away from the presence of the serpent - for a time, times, and half a time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 17:3 - So he carried me away in the Spirit to a wilderness, and there I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.
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