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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)
Dictionary Aids

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 52 times in 48 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:19 - “Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for [fn]food, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharaoh. So give us seed, that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:22 - ‘I will let loose among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number so that your roads lie deserted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - ‘I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your [fn]remains on the [fn]remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:43 - ‘For the land will be abandoned by them, and will make up for its sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making amends for their iniquity, [fn]because they rejected My ordinances and their soul abhorred My statutes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh cords that have not been dried, then I will become weak and be like any other man.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:8 - Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh cords that had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:17 - “Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their lands

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:15 - so that a search may be made in the record books of your fathers. And you will discover in the record books and learn that that city is a rebellious city and damaging to kings and provinces, and that they have incited revolt within it in past days; therefore that city was laid waste.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3 - I said to the king, “Let the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies desolate and its gates have been consumed by fire?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:11 - “As water [fn]evaporates from the sea,
And a river becomes parched and dried up,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:25 - May their [fn]camp be desolate;
May none dwell in their tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 79:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:7 - For they have devoured Jacob
And laid waste his [fn]habitation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 - Your land is desolate,
Your cities are burned with fire,
Your fields—strangers are devouring them in your presence;
It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 - Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered,
“Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant,
Houses are without people
And the land is utterly desolate,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:15 - And the LORD will [fn]utterly destroy
The tongue of the [fn]Sea of Egypt;
And He will wave His hand over the [fn]River
With His scorching wind;
And He will strike it into seven streams
And make men walk over [fn]dry-shod.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:13 - Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people which was not; Assyria appointed it for desert creatures—they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:1 - Behold, the LORD lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:10 - The city of chaos is broken down;
Every house is shut up so that none may enter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 - The highways are desolate, [fn]the traveler has ceased,
He has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities,
He has no regard for man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:10 - It will not be quenched night or day;
Its smoke will go up forever.
From generation to generation it will be desolate;
None will pass through it forever and ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:18 - “Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have devastated all the countries and their lands,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:25 - ‘I dug wells and drank waters,
And with the sole of my feet I dried up
All the rivers of [fn]Egypt.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:27 - “It is I who says to the depth of the sea, ‘Be dried up!’
And I will make your rivers dry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:17 - “Your [fn]builders hurry;
Your destroyers and devastators
Will depart from you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 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 pathway
For the redeemed to cross over?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 54:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3 - “For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left.
And your [fn]descendants will possess nations
And will resettle the desolate cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 60:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:12 - “For the nation and the kingdom which will not serve you will perish,
And the nations will be utterly ruined.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 - “Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see;
Where have you not been violated?
By the roads you have sat for them
Like an Arab in the desert,
And you have polluted a land
With your harlotry and with your wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:25 - Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You
And on the families that do not call Your name;
For they have devoured Jacob;
They have devoured him and consumed him
And have laid waste his [fn]habitation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:9 - “Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD saying, ‘This house will be like Shiloh and this city will be desolate, without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered about Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:10 - “Thus says the LORD, ‘Yet again there will be heard in this place, of which you say, “It is a waste, without man and without beast,” that is, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:36 - Therefore thus says the LORD,
“Behold, I am going to plead your case
And exact full vengeance for you;
And I will dry up her [fn]sea
And make her fountain dry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1 - How lonely sits the city
That was full of people!
She has become like a widow
Who was once great among the nations!
She who was a princess among the [fn]provinces
Has become a forced laborer!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:2 - “Son of man, because Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has [fn]opened to me. I shall be filled, now that she is laid waste,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19 - For thus says the Lord GOD, “When I make you a desolate city, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - “So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:7 - “They will be desolate
In the midst of the desolated lands;
And her cities will be
In the midst of the devastated cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:15 - “When I make the land of Egypt a desolation,
And the land is destitute of that which filled it,
When I smite all those who live in it,
Then they shall know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24 - “Son of man, they who live in these waste places in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one, yet he possessed the land; so to us who are many the land has been given as a possession.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27 - “Thus you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “As I live, surely those who are in the waste places will fall by the sword, and whoever is in the [fn]open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves will die of pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:28 - “I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and the pride of her power will cease; and the mountains of Israel will be desolate so that no one will pass through.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:29 - “Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I make the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations which they have committed.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:3 - and say to it, ‘Thus says the Lord [fn]GOD,
“Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir,
And I will stretch out My hand against you
And make you a desolation and a waste.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:7 - “I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation and I will cut off from it the one who passes through and returns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10 - ‘I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities will be inhabited and the waste places will be rebuilt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12 - to capture spoil and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places which are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquired cattle and goods, who live at the [fn]center of the world.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:11 - It even magnified itself [fn]to be equal with the [fn]Commander of the host; and it removed the regular sacrifice from Him, and the place of His sanctuary was thrown down.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:11 - Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD,
“An enemy, even one surrounding the land,
Will pull down your [fn]strength from you
And your citadels will be looted.”
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