ἘΡΗΜΟΥΣΑ, ἐρημουσα
ERĒMOUSA, erēmousa
Sounds Like: eh-ray-MOO-sah
Translations: desolating, making desolate, laying waste
From the root: ἘΡΗΜΌΩ
Part of Speech: Verb (Participle)
Explanation: This word is a participle derived from the verb 'erēmoō', meaning 'to make desolate' or 'to lay waste'. As a participle, it functions like an adjective or adverb, describing an action in progress. It indicates something or someone that is actively causing desolation or making a place uninhabited.
Inflection: Present Active Participle, Feminine, Nominative Singular
Strong’s number: G2049 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Isaiah — 51:10
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
- ἘΡΗΜΟΥΝΤΙ — laying waste, devastating, making desolate, desolating, making empty, making lonely, making solitary, making uninhabited, making deserted, making destitute
- 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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