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Lexicon :: Strong's G2049 - erēmoō

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ἐρημόω
Transliteration
erēmoō (Key)
Pronunciation
er-ay-mo'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:657,255

Strong’s Definitions

ἐρημόω erēmóō, er-ay-mo'-o; from G2048; to lay waste (literally or figuratively):—(bring to, make) desolate(-ion), come to nought.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's G2049 in the following manner: bring to desolation (2x), desolate (1x), come to nought (1x), make desolate (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's G2049 in the following manner: bring to desolation (2x), desolate (1x), come to nought (1x), make desolate (1x).

  1. to make desolate, lay waste

  2. to ruin, bring to desolation

  3. to despoil one, strip her of her treasures

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐρημόω erēmóō, er-ay-mo'-o; from G2048; to lay waste (literally or figuratively):—(bring to, make) desolate(-ion), come to nought.
STRONGS G2049:
ἐρημόω, -ῶ: passive, [present 3 person singular (cf. Buttmann, 38 (33)) ἐρημοῦται]; perfect participle ἠρημωμένος; 1 aorist ἠρημώθην; (ἔρημος); from Herodotus down; Sept. usually for חָרֵב, הֶחֱרִיב, שָׁמֵם; to make desolate, lay waste; in the N. T. only in the passive: πόλιν, Revelation 18:19; to ruin, bring to desolation: βασιλείαν, Matthew 12:25; Luke 11:17; to reduce to naught: πλοῦτον, Revelation 18:17 (Revelation 18:16); ἠρημωμένην καὶ γυμνὴν ποιεῖν τινα, to despoil one, strip her of her treasures, Revelation 17:16.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
12:25
Luke
11:17
Revelation
17:16; 18:16; 18:17; 18:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2049 matches the Greek ἐρημόω (erēmoō),
which occurs 15 times in 15 verses in 'Isa' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 - Your country lies desolate;
your cities are burned with fire;
in your very presence
foreigners devour your land;
it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 - Then I said, “How long, O Lord?”
And he said:
“Until cities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is a desolate waste,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:15 - And the LORD will utterly destroy[fn]
the tongue of the Sea of Egypt,
and will wave his hand over the River[fn]
with his scorching breath,[fn]
and strike it into seven channels,
and he will lead people across in sandals.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:13 - Behold the land of the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not;[fn] Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:1 - Behold, the LORD will empty the earth[fn] and make it desolate,
and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:10 - The wasted city is broken down;
every house is shut up so that none can enter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 - The highways lie waste;
the traveler ceases.
Covenants are broken;
cities[fn] are despised;
there is no regard for man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:10 - Night and day it shall not be quenched;
its smoke shall go up forever.
From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
none shall pass through it forever and ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:18 - Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:25 - I dug wells
and drank waters,
to dry up with the sole of my foot
all the streams of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:27 - who says to the deep, ‘Be dry;
I will dry up your rivers’;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:17 - Your builders make haste;[fn]
your destroyers and those who laid you waste go out from you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:10 - Was it not you who dried up the sea,
the waters of the great deep,
who made the depths of the sea a way
for the redeemed to pass over?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3 - For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left,
and your offspring will possess the nations
and will people the desolate cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:12 - For the nation and kingdom
that will not serve you shall perish;
those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
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