2048. erémos

Strong's Lexicon

erémos: Desert, wilderness, solitary place, desolate

Original Word: ἔρημος
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: erémos
Pronunciation: eh'-ray-mos
Phonetic Spelling: (er'-ay-mos)
Definition: Desert, wilderness, solitary place, desolate
Meaning: as an adj: deserted, desolate, waste; hence: the desert, to the east and south of Palestine; of a person: deserted, abandoned, desolate.

HELPS Word-studies

2048 érēmos – properly, an uncultivated, unpopulated place; a desolate (deserted) area; (figuratively) a barren, solitary place that also provides needed quiet (freedom from disturbance).

In Scripture, a "desert" (2048 /érēmos) is ironically also where God richly grants His presence and provision for those seeking Him. The limitless Lord shows Himself strong in the "limiting" (difficult) scenes of life.

[2048 (érēmos) in the strict sense expresses a lack of population (not merely "sparse vegetation"). This root (erēmo-) does "not suggest absolute barrenness but unappropriated territory affording free range for shepherds and their flocks. Hepworth Dixon (The Holy Land) says, 'Even in the wilderness nature is not so stern as man. Here and there, in clefts and basins, and on the hillsides, grade on grade, you observe a patch of corn, a clump of olives, a single palm' " (WS, 22).]

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
a prim. word
Definition
solitary, desolate
NASB Translation
desert (2), deserts (1), desolate (6), open pasture (1), secluded (5), unpopulated (1), wilderness (32).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 2048: ἔρημος

ἔρημος, ἔρημον (in classic Greek also ἔρημος, ἐρήμη, ἔρημον, cf. Winers Grammar, § 11, 1; (Buttmann, 25 (23); on its accent cf. Chandler §§ 393, 394; Winer's Grammar, 52 (51)));

1. adjective solitary, lonely, desolate, uninhabited: of places, Matthew 14:13, 15; Mark 1:35; Mark 6:32; Luke 4:42; Luke 9:10 (R G L), ; Acts 1:20, etc.; ἡ ὁδός, leading through a desert, Acts 8:26 (2 Samuel 2:24 the Sept.), see Γάζα, under the end of persons: "deserted by others; deprived of the aid and protection of others, especially of friends, acquaintances, kindred; bereft"; (so often by Greek writers of every age, as Aeschylus Ag. 862; Pers. 734; Aristophanes pax 112; ἔρημος τέ καί ὑπό πάντων καταλειφθείς, Herodian, 2, 12, 12 (7 edition, Bekker); of a flock deserted by the shepherd, Homer, Iliad 5, 140): γυνή, a woman neglected by her husband, from whom the husband withholds himself, Galatians 4:27, from Isaiah 54:1; of Jerusalem, bereft of Christ's presence, instruction and aid, Matthew 23:38 (L and WH texts omit); Luke 13:35 Rec.; cf. Bleek, Erklär. d. drei ersten Evv. ii., p. 206 (cf. Baruch 4:19; Additions to (6:13); 2 Macc. 8:35).

2. a substantive, ἡ ἔρημος, namely, χώρα; the Sept. often for מִדְבַּר; a desert, wilderness (Herodotus 3, 102): Matthew 24:26; Revelation 12:6, 14; Revelation 17:3; αἱ ἔρημοι, desert places, lonely regions: Luke 1:80; Luke 5:16; Luke 8:29. an uncultivated region fit for pasturage, Luke 15:4. used of the desert of Judaea (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 18, 1), Matthew 3:1; Mark 1:3; Luke 1:80; Luke 3:2, 4; John 1:23; of the desert of Arabia, Acts 7:30, 36, 38, 42, 44; 1 Corinthians 10:5; Hebrews 3:8, 17. Cf. Winers RWB under the word Wüste; Furrer in Sehenkel see 680ff; (B. D., see under the words, and (American edition)).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness.

Of uncertain affinity; lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually as a noun, chora being implied) -- desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness.

see GREEK chora

Forms and Transliterations

έρημα έρημά έρημοι ερημοις ερήμοις ἐρήμοις ερημον ερήμον έρημον ἔρημον ερημος ερημός έρημος έρημός ἔρημος Ἔρημός ερημου ερήμου ἐρήμου ερημους ερήμους ἐρήμους ερημω ερήμω ἐρήμῳ ερήμων ηρήμου eremo erēmō erḗmoi erḗmōi eremois erēmois erḗmois eremon erēmon éremon érēmon eremos erēmos éremos Éremós érēmos Érēmós eremou erēmou erḗmou eremous erēmous erḗmous

Englishman's Concordance

Matthew 3:1 Adj-DFS
GRK: ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τῆς Ἰουδαίας
NAS: preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
KJV: preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,
INT: in the wilderness of Judea

Matthew 3:3 Adj-DFS
GRK: ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ Ἑτοιμάσατε τὴν
NAS: OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, MAKE READY
KJV: in the wilderness, Prepare ye
INT: in the wilderness Prepare the

Matthew 4:1 Adj-AFS
GRK: εἰς τὴν ἔρημον ὑπὸ τοῦ
NAS: up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted
KJV: into the wilderness to be tempted
INT: into the wilderness by the

Matthew 11:7 Adj-AFS
GRK: εἰς τὴν ἔρημον θεάσασθαι κάλαμον
NAS: did you go out into the wilderness to see?
KJV: out into the wilderness to see?
INT: into the wilderness to look at a reed

Matthew 14:13 Adj-AMS
GRK: πλοίῳ εἰς ἔρημον τόπον κατ'
NAS: in a boat to a secluded place
KJV: ship into a desert place apart:
INT: boat to a secluded place apart

Matthew 14:15 Adj-NMS
GRK: μαθηταὶ λέγοντες Ἔρημός ἐστιν ὁ
NAS: place is desolate and the hour
KJV: saying, This is a desert place, and
INT: disciples saying Desolate is the

Matthew 23:38 Adj-NMS
GRK: οἶκος ὑμῶν ἔρημος
INT: house of you desolate

Matthew 24:26 Adj-DFS
GRK: ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ ἐστίν μὴ
NAS: to you, 'Behold, He is in the wilderness,' do not go
KJV: he is in the desert; go not
INT: in the wilderness he is not

Mark 1:3 Adj-DFS
GRK: ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ Ἑτοιμάσατε τὴν
NAS: OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, 'MAKE READY
KJV: in the wilderness, Prepare ye
INT: in the wilderness Prepare the

Mark 1:4 Adj-DFS
GRK: ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ καὶ κηρύσσων
NAS: appeared in the wilderness preaching
KJV: baptize in the wilderness, and preach
INT: in the wilderness and proclaiming

Mark 1:12 Adj-AFS
GRK: εἰς τὴν ἔρημον
NAS: impelled Him [to] [go] out into the wilderness.
KJV: him into the wilderness.
INT: into the wilderness

Mark 1:13 Adj-DFS
GRK: ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τεσσεράκοντα ἡμέρας
NAS: And He was in the wilderness forty
KJV: there in the wilderness forty days,
INT: in the wilderness forty days

Mark 1:35 Adj-AMS
GRK: ἀπῆλθεν εἰς ἔρημον τόπον κἀκεῖ
NAS: up, left [the house], and went away to a secluded place,
KJV: into a solitary place,
INT: departed into solitary a place and there

Mark 1:45 Adj-DMP
GRK: ἔξω ἐπ' ἐρήμοις τόποις ἦν
NAS: but stayed out in unpopulated areas;
KJV: without in desert places: and
INT: out in solitary places was

Mark 6:31 Adj-AMS
GRK: ἰδίαν εἰς ἔρημον τόπον καὶ
NAS: by yourselves to a secluded place
KJV: apart into a desert place, and
INT: own to [a] solitary place and

Mark 6:32 Adj-AMS
GRK: πλοίῳ εἰς ἔρημον τόπον κατ'
NAS: in the boat to a secluded place
KJV: into a desert place
INT: boat into solitary a place by

Mark 6:35 Adj-NMS
GRK: ἔλεγον ὅτι Ἔρημός ἐστιν ὁ
NAS: place is desolate and it is already
KJV: This is a desert place, and
INT: say Desolate is the

Luke 1:80 Adj-DFP
GRK: ἐν ταῖς ἐρήμοις ἕως ἡμέρας
NAS: and he lived in the deserts until
KJV: was in the deserts till the day
INT: in the deserts until [the] day

Luke 3:2 Adj-DFS
GRK: ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ
NAS: of Zacharias, in the wilderness.
KJV: of Zacharias in the wilderness.
INT: in the wilderness

Luke 3:4 Adj-DFS
GRK: ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ Ἑτοιμάσατε τὴν
NAS: OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, 'MAKE READY
KJV: in the wilderness, Prepare ye
INT: in the wilderness Prepare the

Luke 4:1 Adj-DFS
GRK: ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ
NAS: around by the Spirit in the wilderness
KJV: the Spirit into the wilderness,
INT: into the wilderness

Luke 4:42 Adj-AMS
GRK: ἐπορεύθη εἰς ἔρημον τόπον καὶ
NAS: and went to a secluded place;
KJV: and went into a desert place: and
INT: he went into a solitary place and

Luke 5:16 Adj-DFP
GRK: ἐν ταῖς ἐρήμοις καὶ προσευχόμενος
NAS: would [often] slip away to the wilderness and pray.
KJV: into the wilderness, and
INT: into the wilderness and praying

Luke 7:24 Adj-AFS
GRK: εἰς τὴν ἔρημον θεάσασθαι κάλαμον
NAS: did you go out into the wilderness to see?
KJV: into the wilderness for to see?
INT: into the wilderness to look at a reed

Luke 8:29 Adj-AFP
GRK: εἰς τὰς ἐρήμους
NAS: by the demon into the desert.
KJV: the devil into the wilderness.)
INT: into the deserts

Strong's Greek 2048
48 Occurrences

ἐρήμῳ — 24 Occ.
ἐρήμοις — 3 Occ.
ἔρημον — 13 Occ.
Ἔρημός — 5 Occ.
ἐρήμου — 2 Occ.
ἐρήμους — 1 Occ.