2001 Translation

ERĒMON, erēmon

Sounds Like: EH-ray-mon

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

From the root: ΕΡΗΜΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun

Explanation: This word describes something that is desolate, uninhabited, or solitary. As an adjective, it can modify a noun to indicate a place that is empty or a person who is alone. It is also commonly used as a noun to refer to a desert or a wilderness, a place that is uncultivated and sparsely populated.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Neuter

Strong’s number: G2048 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 10:4, 28:1

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 7:8

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:34, 1:37

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 14:90, 34:307, 35:315

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 15:315
• Book 4 — 1:9, 1:10
• Book 5 — 2:166
• Book 6 — 6:112, 7:132, 12:268, 13:274, 13:317
• Book 8 — 6:153, 13:348
• Book 9 — 1:12
• Book 10 — 2:25
• Book 12 — 6:271, 6:272, 7:317, 8:336
• Book 13 — 5:178, 9:256, 10:274, 16:432
• Book 16 — 5:145
• Book 20 — 10:228

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 5:5, 11:15
• Book Two — 18:48, 19:2
• Book Four — 8:13, 8:35
• Book Five — 9:26
• Book Six — 6:36
• Book Seven — 5:21

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 53:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 114:5

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 13:1, 13:3, 21:14
• Exodus — 3:1, 3:18, 4:27, 5:3, 8:27, 13:18, 13:20, 15:22, 16:1, 16:3, 16:10, 18:5, 19:1, 19:2
• Leviticus — 16:10, 16:21, 16:22
• Numbers — 13:23, 13:27, 14:25, 20:1, 20:4, 21:1, 21:23, 23:28, 24:1, 33:8, 33:11, 33:36
• Deuteronomy — 1:19, 1:40, 2:1, 2:7, 2:8, 34:3
• Joshua — 1:4, 11:3, 16:1
• Judges — 1:16, 20:45, 20:47
• 1 Samuel — 23:25, 25:1, 26:2, 26:3
• 2 Samuel — 2:24, 15:23
• 2 Kings — 3:8
• 2 Chronicles — 20:20
• Ezra (Alpha) — 8:78
• 1 Maccabees — 2:29, 5:28, 9:33
• 2 Maccabees — 8:35
• Psalms — 28:8, 67:8, 106:33, 106:35
• Job — 38:26, 39:6
• Wisdom — 11:2
• Sirach — 8:16, 43:21
• Isaiah — 5:9, 13:9, 14:17, 14:23, 16:8, 41:18
• Jeremiah — 2:15, 12:10, 13:24, 22:6
• Ezekiel — 5:14, 14:8, 20:10, 20:35, 25:13, 26:20, 29:10, 33:28, 33:29, 35:3, 35:7, 35:14, 35:15
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 9:17
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 4:22, 9:17
• Hosea — 2:3, 2:14
• Zephaniah — 2:13
• Zechariah — 14:10
• Enoch — 10:4, 28:1

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 4:1, 11:7, 14:13
• Mark — 1:12, 1:35, 6:31, 6:32
• Luke — 4:42, 7:24
• Acts — 21:38
• Revelation — 12:6, 12:14, 17:3

From the same root

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

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.

• ἘΡΗΜΑ — desert, a desert, desolate, solitary, uninhabited, waste, a wilderness
• ἘΡΗΜΑΙΣ — (to) desolate, (to) deserted, (to) solitary, (to) lonely, (to) wilderness, (to) desert
• ἘΡΗΜΙΚΩ — to a desolate one, to a solitary one, to a desert one
• ἘΡΗΜΟΙΣ — desolate, deserted, solitary, wilderness, desert, a wilderness, a desert
• ἘΡΗΜΟΥ — of the desert, of the wilderness, of a desolate place, desert, wilderness, desolate place
• ἘΡΗΜΟΥΣ — desolate, deserted, solitary, lonely, wilderness, desert, a wilderness, a desert
• ἘΡΗΜΟΩ — to make desolate, to lay waste, to devastate, to abandon, to leave desolate
• ἘΡΗΜΩΔΕΣ — desert-like, desolate, waste, wilderness-like, a desert-like place
• ἘΣΡΗΜ — desolate, deserted, waste, solitary, lonely, uninhabited
• ΕΡΗΜ — desert, a desert, wilderness, a wilderness, desolate, solitary, uninhabited, lonely
• ΕΡΗΜΑ — desert, desolate, wilderness, a desert, a wilderness, a desolate place
• ΕΡΗΜΑʼ — desolate place, a desolate place, desert, a desert, wilderness, a wilderness, desolate, deserted, solitary, uninhabited
• ΕΡΗΜΙΚΟΙΣ — desert, solitary, desolate, lonely, of a desert place, of a solitary place, of a desolate place, of a lonely place
• ΕΡΗΜΙΚΩ — desert, solitary, desolate, a desert, a solitary place
• ΕΡΗΜΟ — desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness, a desert, a wilderness
• ΕΡΗΜΟΙ — desolate, desert, wilderness, solitary, uninhabited, a desert place, a wilderness
• ΕΡΗΜΟΙΣ — (to) desolate, (to) deserted, (to) solitary, (to) wilderness, (to) desert
• ΕΡΗΜΟΝ — desert, wilderness, a desert, a wilderness, desolate, deserted, empty, solitary
• ΕΡΗΜΟΣ — desolate, desert, wilderness, solitary, a desert, a wilderness
• ΕΡΗΜΟΥ — of a desert, of a wilderness, of a desolate place, of a solitary place, a desert, a wilderness, a desolate place, a solitary place
• ΕΡΗΜΟΥΣ — deserted, desolate, solitary, uninhabited, waste, lonely
• ΕΡΗΜΩΝ — desolate, desert, wilderness, solitary, a desert, a wilderness, of deserts, of wildernesses
• ΕΡΗΝΟΥ — of a desert, of a wilderness, of a desolate place

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