2001 Translation

ERĒMŌ, erēmō

Sounds Like: eh-RAY-moh

Translations: to a desert, in a desert, to a wilderness, in a wilderness, to a desolate place, in a desolate place

From the root: ἘΡΗΜΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a desert, wilderness, or desolate place. It is used to describe an uninhabited or sparsely populated area, often barren or uncultivated. In the provided examples, it is used in the dative case, indicating location ('in the wilderness') or direction ('to the wilderness').

Inflection: Singular, Dative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G2047 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 9:3

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:29, 1:33, 9:13

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 2:25
• Book Two — 2:25

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 3 — 1:32, 2:60
• Book 5 — 1:34
• Book 6 — 13:280, 13:297
• Book 13 — 1:26

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 3:12

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 60:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 19:5, 20:4, 21:3, 22:3, 50:3, 57:2, 69:5, 69:6, 94:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 12:9, 14:6, 16:7, 21:20, 21:21, 36:24, 37:22
• Exodus — 5:1, 7:16, 8:20, 8:28, 14:11, 14:12, 15:22, 16:32
• Leviticus — 7:28
• Numbers — 1:1, 1:19, 3:4, 3:14, 9:1, 9:5, 10:12, 10:31, 13:1, 13:18, 14:2, 14:16, 14:22, 14:29, 14:32, 14:33, 14:35, 15:32, 16:13, 21:5, 21:11, 21:13, 26:61, 26:64, 26:65, 27:3, 27:14, 32:13, 32:15, 33:15, 33:36
• Deuteronomy — 1:1, 1:31, 4:43, 8:2, 8:16, 9:7, 9:28, 11:5, 29:5, 32:10, 32:51
• Joshua — 5:5, 12:8, 14:10, 20:8, 21:36, 21:42, 24:7
• Judges — 11:16, 11:18
• 1 Samuel — 4:8, 23:14, 23:24, 23:25, 24:2, 25:4, 25:7, 25:21, 26:2, 26:3
• 2 Samuel — 15:18, 16:2, 17:29
• 1 Kings — 2:34, 2:46, 19:4
• 2 Kings — 2:8
• 1 Chronicles — 6:78, 21:29
• 2 Chronicles — 1:3, 8:4, 24:9, 26:10
• Nehemiah — 9:19, 9:21
• Judith — 5:14
• 1 Maccabees — 2:31, 5:24, 9:62
• Psalms — 54:8, 62:1, 62:2, 77:15, 77:19, 77:40, 77:52, 94:8, 105:9, 105:14, 105:26, 106:4, 135:16
• Psalms of Solomon — 5:11
• Odes — 2:10
• Proverbs — 21:19
• Wisdom — 18:20
• Sirach — 13:19, 45:18
• Isaiah — 30:6, 32:16, 35:6, 40:3, 43:19, 43:20
• Jeremiah — 2:6, 4:11, 9:2, 9:26, 12:12, 17:6, 31:6, 32:10, 38:2, 40:12
• Lamentations — 4:3, 4:19
• Ezekiel — 19:13, 20:13, 20:15, 20:17, 20:18, 20:21, 20:23, 20:36, 34:25
• Hosea — 9:10, 13:5
• Amos — 2:10, 5:25

The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions

• Vision 2 — 3:4

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 3:1, 3:3, 24:26
• Mark — 1:3, 1:4, 1:13
• Luke — 3:2, 3:4, 4:1, 9:12, 15:4
• John — 1:23, 3:14, 6:31, 6:49
• Acts — 7:30, 7:36, 7:38, 7:42, 7:44, 13:18
• 1 Corinthians — 10:5
• Hebrews — 3:8, 3:17

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
• ἘΡΗΜΟΣ — desolate, deserted, solitary, lonely, uninhabited, wilderness, desert, a wilderness, a desert
• ἘΡΗΜΟΤΕΡΟΝ — more deserted, more desolate, more solitary, more uninhabited
• ἘΡΗΜΟΤΕΡΟΥΣ — more desolate, more deserted, more solitary, more uninhabited
• ἘΡΗΜΩΝ — of deserts, of desolate places, of wildernesses, of lonely places, of uninhabited places

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