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ἘΡΗΜΟΣ, ἐρημος

ERĒMOS, erēmos

Sounds Like: EH-ray-mos

Translations: desolate, deserted, solitary, lonely, uninhabited, wilderness, desert, a wilderness, a desert

From the root: ἘΡΗΜΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun

Explanation: This word describes something as desolate, deserted, or uninhabited. It can refer to a place, like a wilderness or a desert, or it can describe a person as lonely or solitary. As an adjective, it modifies a noun, indicating its state of emptiness or isolation. As a noun, it refers to a desolate place itself.

Inflection: Masculine, Feminine, or Neuter; Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, or Vocative; Singular or Plural

Strong’s number: G2048 (Lookup on BibleHub)


Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection
Barnabus
  • Letter of Barnabas — 11:3
Clement of Alexandria
  • Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:34, 1:35
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
  • Book Three — 3:10
  • Book Seven — 4:15
Justin Martyr
  • First Apology of Justin Martyr — 47:1
  • Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 25:5, 65:6, 69:5
Pseudo Clement of Rome
  • Clement’s Second Letter — 2:3
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΡΗΜΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

  • ἘΡΗΜΟΙ — desolate, deserted, empty, solitary, lonely, a desolate place, a desert, a wilderness
  • ἘΡΗΜΟΤΕΡΟΝ — more deserted, more desolate, more solitary, more uninhabited
  • ἘΡΗΜΟΤΕΡΟΥΣ — more desolate, more deserted, more solitary, more uninhabited
  • ἘΡΗΜΩ — to a desert, in a desert, to a wilderness, in a wilderness, to a desolate place, in a desolate place
  • ἘΡΗΜΩΝ — of deserts, of desolate places, of wildernesses, of lonely places, of uninhabited places

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