ἔρημος erēmos

Greek word for “deserted” · Strong’s G2048 · used 48 times in 48 verses

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Meaning

ἔρημος; (in older Gk.

How it is translated

Glosses given for erēmos in context, with how often each is used:

• wilderness 31
• solitary 5
• desolate 4
• secluded 1
• desolate! 1
• deserted places 1
• deserts 1
• open field 1
• desert road 1
• desolate woman 1
• wilderness? 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Mark 1 (6), Acts 7 (5), Mark 6 (3), Matthew 3 (2), Matthew 14 (2), Luke 3 (2), Luke 4 (2), John 6 (2), Hebrews 3 (2), Revelation 12 (2)

Forms

• ἐρήμῳ 24
• ἔρημον 13
• ἔρημος 3
• ἐρήμοις 3
• ἔρημός 2
• ἐρήμου 2
• ἐρήμους 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with erēmos more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• τόπος topos “place” 11
• βοάω boaō “to cry out” 5
• τεσσαράκοντα tessarakonta “forty” 5
• ἐξέρχομαι exerchomai “to go out” 7
• ἡμέρα hēmera “day” 8
• τρίβος tribos “path” 3
• ὄχλος ochlos “crowd” 6
• ὁδός hodos “road” 5
• ἑτοιμάζω hetoimazō “to make ready” 4
• ἀπέρχομαι aperchomai “to go away” 5
• εὐθύς euthus “Straight” 3
• Ἰωάννης Iōannēs “John” 5

Key verses

The verses using erēmos that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 3:1 — In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,
• Mark 1:35 — And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
• Luke 3:2 — Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
• Luke 15:4 — What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until…
• John 3:14 — And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
• Acts 7:30 — And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
• Acts 7:36 — He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
• Acts 7:38 — This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles…
• Acts 7:42 — Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me…
• Acts 8:26 — And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
• Hebrews 3:8 — Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
• Revelation 17:3 — So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.