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
- 1 Enoch — 18:12
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 11:3
Clement of Alexandria
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
Pseudo Clement of Rome
- Clement’s Second Letter — 2:3
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Exodus — 14:3, 23:29
- Leviticus — 26:33
- Deuteronomy — 7:22
- Nehemiah — 2:17
- Judith — 5:19
- Tobit — 14:4, 14:4
- 1 Maccabees — 1:39, 3:45
- Isaiah — 1:7, 6:11, 15:6, 16:1, 32:15, 35:1, 42:11, 62:4, 64:10
- Jeremiah — 2:31, 4:26, 4:27, 9:12, 27:12, 40:10
- Baruch — 4:19
- Ezekiel — 29:9, 35:4, 38:8
- Haggai — 1:9
- Enoch — 18:12
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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