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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 1 / 7 (Gen 12:9–Num 10:12)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:9 - Then Abram continued traveling south by stages toward the Negev.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1 - So Abram left Egypt and traveled north into the Negev, along with his wife and Lot and all that they owned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3 - From the Negev, they continued traveling by stages toward Bethel, and they pitched their tents between Bethel and Ai, where they had camped before.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:6 - and the Horites at Mount Seir, as far as El-paran at the edge of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:7 - The angel of the LORD found Hagar beside a spring of water in the wilderness, along the road to Shur.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - So Abraham got up early the next morning, prepared food and a container of water, and strapped them on Hagar’s shoulders. Then he sent her away with their son, and she wandered aimlessly in the wilderness of Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:20 - And God was with the boy as he grew up in the wilderness. He became a skillful archer,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:21 - and he settled in the wilderness of Paran. His mother arranged for him to marry a woman from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:62 - Meanwhile, Isaac, whose home was in the Negev, had returned from Beer-lahai-roi.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:24 - The descendants of Zibeon were Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who discovered the hot springs in the wilderness while he was grazing his father’s donkeys.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:22 - “Why should we shed any blood? Let’s just throw him into this empty cistern here in the wilderness. Then he’ll die without our laying a hand on him.” Reuben was secretly planning to rescue Joseph and return him to his father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:1 - One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro,[fn] the priest of Midian. He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai,[fn] the mountain of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:18 - “The elders of Israel will accept your message. Then you and the elders must go to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD, our God.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:27

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:1 - After this presentation to Israel’s leaders, Moses and Aaron went and spoke to Pharaoh. They told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Let my people go so they may hold a festival in my honor in the wilderness.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:3 - But Aaron and Moses persisted. “The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they declared. “So let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness so we can offer sacrifices to the LORD our God. If we don’t, he will kill us with a plague or with the sword.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:16 - Then announce to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you, “Let my people go, so they can worship me in the wilderness.” Until now, you have refused to listen to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:20 - Then the LORD told Moses, “Get up early in the morning and stand in Pharaoh’s way as he goes down to the river. Say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so they can worship me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:27 - We must take a three-day trip into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God, just as he has commanded us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:28 - “All right, go ahead,” Pharaoh replied. “I will let you go into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD your God. But don’t go too far away. Now hurry and pray for me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18 - So God led them in a roundabout way through the wilderness toward the Red Sea.[fn] Thus the Israelites left Egypt like an army ready for battle.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:20 - The Israelites left Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:3 - Then Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are confused. They are trapped in the wilderness!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:11 - and they said to Moses, “Why did you bring us out here to die in the wilderness? Weren’t there enough graves for us in Egypt? What have you done to us? Why did you make us leave Egypt?

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:12 - Didn’t we tell you this would happen while we were still in Egypt? We said, ‘Leave us alone! Let us be slaves to the Egyptians. It’s better to be a slave in Egypt than a corpse in the wilderness!’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22 - Then Moses led the people of Israel away from the Red Sea, and they moved out into the desert of Shur. They traveled in this desert for three days without finding any water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:1 - Then the whole community of Israel set out from Elim and journeyed into the wilderness of Sin,[fn] between Elim and Mount Sinai. They arrived there on the fifteenth day of the second month, one month after leaving the land of Egypt.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:3 - “If only the LORD had killed us back in Egypt,” they moaned. “There we sat around pots filled with meat and ate all the bread we wanted. But now you have brought us into this wilderness to starve us all to death.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:10 - And as Aaron spoke to the whole community of Israel, they looked out toward the wilderness. There they could see the awesome glory of the LORD in the cloud.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:14 - When the dew evaporated, a flaky substance as fine as frost blanketed the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:32 - Then Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: Fill a two-quart container with manna to preserve it for your descendants. Then later generations will be able to see the food I gave you in the wilderness when I set you free from Egypt.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:1 - At the LORD’s command, the whole community of Israel left the wilderness of Sin[fn] and moved from place to place. Eventually they camped at Rephidim, but there was no water there for the people to drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:5 - Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, now came to visit Moses in the wilderness. He brought Moses’ wife and two sons with him, and they arrived while Moses and the people were camped near the mountain of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:1 - Exactly two months after the Israelites left Egypt,[fn] they arrived in the wilderness of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:2 - After breaking camp at Rephidim, they came to the wilderness of Sinai and set up camp there at the base of Mount Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:29 - But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals would multiply and threaten you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - And I will fix your boundaries from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea,[fn] and from the eastern wilderness to the Euphrates River.[fn] I will hand over to you the people now living in the land, and you will drive them out ahead of you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 7:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:38 - The LORD gave these instructions to Moses on Mount Sinai when he commanded the Israelites to 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 - The other goat, the scapegoat chosen by lot to be sent away, will be kept alive, standing before the LORD. When it is sent away to Azazel in the wilderness, the people will be purified and made right with the LORD.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:21 - He will lay both of his hands on the goat’s head and confess over it all the wickedness, rebellion, and sins of the people of Israel. In this way, he will transfer the people’s sins to the head of the goat. Then a man specially chosen for the task will drive the goat into the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:22 - As the goat goes into the wilderness, it will carry all the people’s sins upon itself into a desolate land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31 - I will make your cities desolate and destroy your places of pagan worship. I will take no pleasure in your offerings that should be a pleasing aroma to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - I will scatter you among the nations and bring out my sword against you. Your land will become desolate, and your cities will lie in ruins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:1 - A year after Israel’s departure from Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tabernacle[fn] in the wilderness of Sinai. On the first day of the second month[fn] of that year he said,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:19 - just as the LORD had commanded Moses. So Moses recorded their names 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 in the LORD’s presence in the wilderness of Sinai when they burned before the LORD the wrong kind of fire, different than he had commanded. Since they had no sons, this left only Eleazar and Ithamar to serve as priests with their father, Aaron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:14 - The LORD spoke again to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai. He said,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:1 - A year after Israel’s departure from Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai. In the first month[fn] of that year he said,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - in the wilderness of Sinai as twilight fell on the fourteenth day of the month. And they celebrated the festival there, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:12 - So the Israelites set out from the wilderness of Sinai and traveled on from place to place until the cloud stopped in the wilderness of Paran.

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