ἘΡΗΜΟΥΝΤΙ, ἐρημουντι
ERĒMOUNTI, erēmounti
Sounds Like: eh-ray-MOON-tee
Translations: laying waste, devastating, making desolate, desolating, making empty, making lonely, making solitary, making uninhabited, making deserted, making destitute
From the root: ἘΡΗΜΌΩ
Part of Speech: Verb (Participle)
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'laying waste' or 'making desolate'. It describes an ongoing action of causing something to become empty, deserted, or uninhabited. It can refer to physical destruction or the act of making someone lonely or destitute. In a sentence, it would describe the subject as actively performing the action of desolating or making something desolate.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Masculine or Neuter
Strong’s number: G2049 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 17 — 1:4
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΡΗΜΌΩ.
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.
- ἘΞΗΡΗΜΩΣΕΝ — he laid waste, he made desolate, he destroyed, he devastated
- ἘΡΗΜΟΥΣΑ — desolating, making desolate, laying waste
- ἘΡΗΜΟΥΣΘΑΙ — to be made desolate, to be laid waste, to be deserted, to be abandoned
- ἨΡΗΜΩΘΗΝ — I was made desolate, I was laid waste, I was deserted, I was left alone
- ἨΡΗΜΩΜΕΝΑΙΣ — (to) desolate, (to) lay waste, (to) make desolate, (to) make deserted, (to) make empty, (to) make solitary
- ἨΡΗΜΩΣΑΝ — they desolated, they laid waste, they made desolate, they made empty
- ἨΡΗΜΩΤΟ — it was made desolate, it was laid waste, it was deserted, it was left desolate
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