Strong G2048ἔρημος
deserted
- Transliteration
- erēmos
- Pronunciation
- er'-ay-mos
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective
Definition
Of uncertain affinity;
lonesome that is (by implication) waste (usually as a noun G5561 being implied): - desert desolate solitary wilderness.
lonesome that is (by implication) waste (usually as a noun G5561 being implied): - desert desolate solitary wilderness.
Detailed definition
ἔρημος
(in older Gk. ἔρῆμος), -ον [in LXX chiefly for מִדְבָּר;]
solitary, lonely, desolate, deserted:
__(a) of persons, γυνή, Gal.4:27 (LXX);
__(b) of places, Mat.14:13, 15 23:38 (WH, om.), Mrk.1:36 6:32, Luk.4:42 9:12, al.; as subst., ἡ ἔ. (sc. χώρα; as in Hdt., ii, 32, al.), the desert, Mat.3:1, 3, Mrk.1:3-4, Jhn.3:14, al.; pl., αἱ ἔ., desert places, Luk.1:80 5:16 8:29
(AS)
(in older Gk. ἔρῆμος), -ον [in LXX chiefly for מִדְבָּר;]
solitary, lonely, desolate, deserted:
__(a) of persons, γυνή, Gal.4:27 (LXX);
__(b) of places, Mat.14:13, 15 23:38 (WH, om.), Mrk.1:36 6:32, Luk.4:42 9:12, al.; as subst., ἡ ἔ. (sc. χώρα; as in Hdt., ii, 32, al.), the desert, Mat.3:1, 3, Mrk.1:3-4, Jhn.3:14, al.; pl., αἱ ἔ., desert places, Luk.1:80 5:16 8:29
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2048 appears in 50 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- wilderness32
- desert13
- desolate4
- solitary1
First verses
- Matthew 3:1In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
- Matthew 3:3For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
- Matthew 4:1Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
- Matthew 11:7And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
- Matthew 14:13When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities.
- Matthew 14:15And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.
- Matthew 23:38Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
- Matthew 24:26Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
- Mark 1:3The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
- Mark 1:4John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
- Mark 1:12And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
- Mark 1:13And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.
- Mark 1:35And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
- Mark 1:45But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.
- Mark 6:31And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
- Mark 6:32And they departed into a desert place by ship privately.
- Mark 6:35And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed:
- Luke 1:80And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.
- Luke 3:2Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
- Luke 3:4As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
ἐρῆμος, ον,
feminine ἐρήμη [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.270, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1719 (Lyric poetry), “Ant.” 739, “Tr.” 530 (Lyric poetry), and in the phrase δίκη ἐρήμη (see. infr. III))]: Attic dialect ἔρημος, ον, accusative to Hdn.Gr.[Refs (2.938)]: comparative -ότερος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.11, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 29.1, etc.)]: superlative -ότατος[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.118)]:—desolate, lonely, solitary,
1 of places, ἐς νῆσον ἐρήμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.270; χῶρος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.520)]; τὰ ἐ. τῆς Λιβύης the desert parts.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.32, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.17)]; ἡ ἐρῆμος (i.e. χώρα) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.18; ἡ ἐρήμη 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 7.48: _plural_, [prev. work] 3.26)]; empty, πνύξ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 20.)]
2 of personsor animals, τὰ δ᾽ ἐρῆμα φοβεῖται (i.e. the sheep), [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.140; ξέρξην ἔ. μολεῖν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 734 (troch.); ἧσθαι δόμοις ἔ. [prev. author] “Ag.” 862; πόρτις ἐρήμα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 530 (Lyric poetry); ἔ. κἄφιλος [prev. author] “Ph.” 228; τὸν θεὸν ἔ. ἀπολιπόντε 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 447)]; frequently of poor, friendless persons, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.15, etc.)]; ἐρημότεροι, opposed to δυνατώτεροι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.11; οὐκ ὢν οὔτε τῶν ἐρημοτάτων οὔτε τῶν ἀπόρων κομιδῇ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.111; εἰς ὀρφανὰ καὶ ἔ. ὑβρίζειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 927c; ὄρνιθες)]solitary, not gregarious, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Caesar” 63: _neuter_ as)] adverb, ἔρημα κλαίω I weep in solitude, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 775)]; ἔρημον ἐμβλέπειν to look vacantly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 456.)]
3 of conditions, πλάνος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1114.)]
II with genitive, reft of, void or destitute of, [χώρη] ἐ. πάντων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.32; ἀνθρώπων [prev. author] 4.17, compare 18; ἀνδρῶν [prev. author] 6.23, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 57; Ἀθηναίων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.65; στέγαι φίλων ἔ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1405; Πειραιᾶ ἔ. ὄντα νεῶν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.96)]; τῇ ἦν ἐρημότατον τῶν πολεμίων (i.e. τὸ τεῖχος) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.118; [τὰ γεγραμμένα] ἀπόντος τοῦ γράψαντος ἔρημα τοῦ βοηθήσοντός ἐστιν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator “Epistulae” 1.3; θεῶν ἔρημα εἶναι πάντα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 908c.)]
II.2 of persons, bereft of, συμμάχων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.160; πατρός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1719 (Lyric poetry); πατρὸς ἢ μητρός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 927d; πρὸς φίλων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 919)]; so ἔ. οἶκος a house without heirs, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 7.31.)]
II.3 with no bad sense, wanting, without, ἐσθὴς ἐρῆμος ὅπλων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.63)]; free from, ἀνδρῶν κακῶν ἔρημος πόλις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 862e.)]
III ἐρήμη, rarely ἔρημος (with or more commonly without γραφή, δίκη, δίαιτα), ἡ, an undefended action, in which one party does not appear, and judgement goes against him by default, ἤλπιζε.. τὴν γραφὴν..ἐρήμην ἔσεσθαι would be undefended, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.1.7; ἐρήμῃ δίκῃ θάνατον καταγιγνώσκειν τινός 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.61)]; δίκην εἷλον ἐρήμην I got judgement by default, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.81; ἐρήμην αὐτὸν λαβόντες..εἷλον 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 20.18)]; τὴν ἔρημον δεδωκότα having given it by default in one's favour, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.85)]; ἔρημον ὦφλε δίκην he let it go by default, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work]87,compare 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.13; ἐρήμην τινὸς καταγνῶναι τὴν δίαιταν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 33.33; ἐρήμην καταδιαιτῆσαί τινος [prev. author] 40.17; γενομένης ἐρήμου κατὰ Μειδίου Test. cited in [same work] 21.93)]; ἐρήμην κατηγορεῖν to accuse in a case where there was no defence, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 18c, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.87)]; ἐρήμην or ἐξ ἐρήμης κρατεῖν, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Anach.” 40, “JTr.” 25; ἁλῶναι [prev. author] “Tox.” 11, etc.)]
III.2 unclaimed, vacant, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 43.4, “EN” 1125b17, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 3.61.)]
III.3 for ἐρήμας τρυγᾶν see entry τρυγάω.
feminine ἐρήμη [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.270, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1719 (Lyric poetry), “Ant.” 739, “Tr.” 530 (Lyric poetry), and in the phrase δίκη ἐρήμη (see. infr. III))]: Attic dialect ἔρημος, ον, accusative to Hdn.Gr.[Refs (2.938)]: comparative -ότερος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.11, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 29.1, etc.)]: superlative -ότατος[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.118)]:—desolate, lonely, solitary,
1 of places, ἐς νῆσον ἐρήμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.270; χῶρος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.520)]; τὰ ἐ. τῆς Λιβύης the desert parts.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.32, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.17)]; ἡ ἐρῆμος (i.e. χώρα) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.18; ἡ ἐρήμη 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 7.48: _plural_, [prev. work] 3.26)]; empty, πνύξ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 20.)]
2 of personsor animals, τὰ δ᾽ ἐρῆμα φοβεῖται (i.e. the sheep), [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.140; ξέρξην ἔ. μολεῖν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 734 (troch.); ἧσθαι δόμοις ἔ. [prev. author] “Ag.” 862; πόρτις ἐρήμα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 530 (Lyric poetry); ἔ. κἄφιλος [prev. author] “Ph.” 228; τὸν θεὸν ἔ. ἀπολιπόντε 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 447)]; frequently of poor, friendless persons, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.15, etc.)]; ἐρημότεροι, opposed to δυνατώτεροι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.11; οὐκ ὢν οὔτε τῶν ἐρημοτάτων οὔτε τῶν ἀπόρων κομιδῇ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.111; εἰς ὀρφανὰ καὶ ἔ. ὑβρίζειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 927c; ὄρνιθες)]solitary, not gregarious, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Caesar” 63: _neuter_ as)] adverb, ἔρημα κλαίω I weep in solitude, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 775)]; ἔρημον ἐμβλέπειν to look vacantly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 456.)]
3 of conditions, πλάνος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1114.)]
II with genitive, reft of, void or destitute of, [χώρη] ἐ. πάντων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.32; ἀνθρώπων [prev. author] 4.17, compare 18; ἀνδρῶν [prev. author] 6.23, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 57; Ἀθηναίων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.65; στέγαι φίλων ἔ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1405; Πειραιᾶ ἔ. ὄντα νεῶν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.96)]; τῇ ἦν ἐρημότατον τῶν πολεμίων (i.e. τὸ τεῖχος) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.118; [τὰ γεγραμμένα] ἀπόντος τοῦ γράψαντος ἔρημα τοῦ βοηθήσοντός ἐστιν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator “Epistulae” 1.3; θεῶν ἔρημα εἶναι πάντα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 908c.)]
II.2 of persons, bereft of, συμμάχων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.160; πατρός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1719 (Lyric poetry); πατρὸς ἢ μητρός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 927d; πρὸς φίλων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 919)]; so ἔ. οἶκος a house without heirs, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 7.31.)]
II.3 with no bad sense, wanting, without, ἐσθὴς ἐρῆμος ὅπλων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.63)]; free from, ἀνδρῶν κακῶν ἔρημος πόλις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 862e.)]
III ἐρήμη, rarely ἔρημος (with or more commonly without γραφή, δίκη, δίαιτα), ἡ, an undefended action, in which one party does not appear, and judgement goes against him by default, ἤλπιζε.. τὴν γραφὴν..ἐρήμην ἔσεσθαι would be undefended, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.1.7; ἐρήμῃ δίκῃ θάνατον καταγιγνώσκειν τινός 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.61)]; δίκην εἷλον ἐρήμην I got judgement by default, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.81; ἐρήμην αὐτὸν λαβόντες..εἷλον 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 20.18)]; τὴν ἔρημον δεδωκότα having given it by default in one's favour, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.85)]; ἔρημον ὦφλε δίκην he let it go by default, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work]87,compare 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.13; ἐρήμην τινὸς καταγνῶναι τὴν δίαιταν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 33.33; ἐρήμην καταδιαιτῆσαί τινος [prev. author] 40.17; γενομένης ἐρήμου κατὰ Μειδίου Test. cited in [same work] 21.93)]; ἐρήμην κατηγορεῖν to accuse in a case where there was no defence, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 18c, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.87)]; ἐρήμην or ἐξ ἐρήμης κρατεῖν, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Anach.” 40, “JTr.” 25; ἁλῶναι [prev. author] “Tox.” 11, etc.)]
III.2 unclaimed, vacant, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 43.4, “EN” 1125b17, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 3.61.)]
III.3 for ἐρήμας τρυγᾶν see entry τρυγάω.