Strong's Concordance erémos: solitary, desolate Original Word: ἔρημος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: erémos Phonetic Spelling: (er'-ay-mos) Short Definition: deserted, desolate, a desert Definition: as an adj: deserted, desolate, waste; hence: the desert, to the east and south of Palestine; of a person: deserted, abandoned, desolate. HELPS Word-studies 2048 érēmos – properly, an uncultivated, unpopulated place; a desolate (deserted) area; (figuratively) a barren, solitary place that also provides needed quiet (freedom from disturbance). In Scripture, a "desert" (2048 /érēmos) is ironically also where God richly grants His presence and provision for those seeking Him. The limitless Lord shows Himself strong in the "limiting" (difficult) scenes of life. [2048 (érēmos) in the strict sense expresses a lack of population (not merely "sparse vegetation"). This root (erēmo-) does "not suggest absolute barrenness but unappropriated territory affording free range for shepherds and their flocks. Hepworth Dixon (The Holy Land) says, 'Even in the wilderness nature is not so stern as man. Here and there, in clefts and basins, and on the hillsides, grade on grade, you observe a patch of corn, a clump of olives, a single palm' " (WS, 22).] Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2048: ἔρημοςἔρημος, ἔρημον (in classic Greek also ἔρημος, ἐρήμη, ἔρημον, 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), 2. a substantive, ἡ ἔρημος, namely, χώρα; the 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 see 680ff; (B. D., see under the words, Of uncertain affinity; lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually as a noun, chora being implied) -- desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness. see GREEK chora Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 204848 Occurrences ἐρήμῳ — 24 Occ. ἐρήμοις — 3 Occ. ἔρημον — 13 Occ. Ἔρημός — 5 Occ. ἐρήμου — 2 Occ. ἐρήμους — 1 Occ. Matthew 3:1 Adj-DFS GRK: ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τῆς Ἰουδαίας NAS: preaching in the wilderness of Judea, KJV: preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, INT: in the wilderness of Judea Matthew 3:3 Adj-DFS Matthew 4:1 Adj-AFS Matthew 11:7 Adj-AFS Matthew 14:13 Adj-AMS Matthew 14:15 Adj-NMS Matthew 23:38 Adj-NMS Matthew 24:26 Adj-DFS Mark 1:3 Adj-DFS Mark 1:4 Adj-DFS Mark 1:12 Adj-AFS Mark 1:13 Adj-DFS Mark 1:35 Adj-AMS Mark 1:45 Adj-DMP Mark 6:31 Adj-AMS Mark 6:32 Adj-AMS Mark 6:35 Adj-NMS Luke 1:80 Adj-DFP Luke 3:2 Adj-DFS Luke 3:4 Adj-DFS Luke 4:1 Adj-DFS Luke 4:42 Adj-AMS Luke 5:16 Adj-DFP Luke 7:24 Adj-AFS Luke 8:29 Adj-AFP |
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