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ἔρημος

erēmosdesertedHow to read Greek
greekNew TestamentAdjective48 occurrences9 books48 verses

Definition

ἔρημος

(in older Gk. ἔρῆμος), -ον [in LXX chiefly for מִדְבָּר ;]

solitary, lonely, desolate, deserted:

(a) of persons, γυνή, Galatians 4:27 (LXX);

(b) of places, Matthew 14:13, 15; 23:38 (WH, om.), Mark 1:36; 6:32, Luke 4:42; 9:12, al.; as subst., ἡ ἔ. (sc. χώρα; as in Hdt., ii, 32, al.), the desert, Matthew 3:1, 3, Mark 1:3-4, John 3:14, al.; pl., αἱ ἔ., desert places, Luke 1:80; 5:16; 8:29

Hebrew words it translates

The Hebrew words that the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders as ἔρημος:

Usage patterns

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

48 total
  1. Matthew 3:1ἐρήμῳ · wilderness
    In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea
  2. Matthew 3:3ἐρήμῳ · wilderness
    This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”
  3. Matthew 4:1ἔρημον · wilderness
    Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
  4. Matthew 11:7ἔρημον · wilderness
    As John’s disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the wind?
  5. Matthew 14:13ἔρημον · a solitary
    When Jesus heard about John, He withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. But the crowds found out about it and followed Him on foot from the towns.
  6. Matthew 14:15Ἔρημός · a desolate
    When evening came, the disciples came to Him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is already late. Dismiss the crowds so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.”
  7. Matthew 23:38ἔρημος · desolate
    Look, your house is left to you desolate.
  8. Matthew 24:26ἐρήμῳ · wilderness
    So if they tell you, ‘There He is, in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or, ‘Here He is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.
  9. Mark 1:3ἐρήμῳ · wilderness
    “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”
  10. Mark 1:4ἐρήμῳ · wilderness
    John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
  11. Mark 1:12ἔρημον · wilderness
    At once the Spirit drove Jesus into the wilderness,
  12. Mark 1:13ἐρήμῳ · [there]
    …and He was there for forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and the angels ministered to Him.
  13. Mark 1:35ἔρημον · a solitary
    Early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up and went out to a solitary place to pray.
  14. Mark 1:45ἐρήμοις · solitary
    But the man went out and openly began to proclaim and spread the news. Consequently, Jesus could no longer enter a town in plain view, but He stayed out in solitary places. Yet people came to Him from every quarter.
  15. Mark 6:31ἔρημον · [a] solitary
    And He said to them, “Come with Me privately to a solitary place, and let us rest for a while.” For many people were coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.
  16. Mark 6:32ἔρημον · a solitary
    So they went away in a boat by themselves to a solitary place.
  17. Mark 6:35Ἔρημός · a desolate
    By now the hour was already late. So the disciples came to Jesus and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is already late.
  18. Luke 1:80ἐρήμοις · wilderness
    And the child grew and became strong in spirit; and he lived in the wilderness until the time of his public appearance to Israel.
  19. Luke 3:2ἐρήμῳ · wilderness
    …during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.
  20. Luke 3:4ἐρήμῳ · wilderness
    …as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.
  21. Luke 4:1ἐρήμῳ · wilderness
    Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
  22. Luke 4:42ἔρημον · a solitary
    At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place, and the crowds were looking for Him. They came to Him and tried to keep Him from leaving.
  23. Luke 5:16ἐρήμοις · wilderness
    Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray.
  24. Luke 7:24ἔρημον · wilderness
    After John’s messengers had left, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the wind?
  25. Luke 8:29ἐρήμους · solitary places
    For Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was bound with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and been driven by the demon into solitary places.
  26. Luke 9:12ἐρήμῳ · a desolate
    As the day neared its end, the Twelve came to Jesus and said, “Dismiss the crowd so they can go to the surrounding villages and countryside for lodging and provisions. For we are in a desolate place here.”
  27. Luke 15:4ἐρήμῳ · pasture
    “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?
  28. John 1:23ἐρήμῳ · wilderness
    John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet: “I am a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”
  29. John 3:14ἐρήμῳ · wilderness
    Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
  30. John 6:31ἐρήμῳ · wilderness
    Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
  31. John 6:49ἐρήμῳ · wilderness
    Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
  32. John 11:54ἐρήμου · wilderness
    As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.
  33. Acts 1:20ἔρημος · deserted
    “For it is written in the book of Psalms: ‘May his place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in it,’ and, ‘May another take his position.’
  34. Acts 7:30ἐρήμῳ · desert
    After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
  35. Acts 7:36ἐρήμῳ · wilderness
    He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
  36. Acts 7:38ἐρήμῳ · wilderness
    He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
  37. Acts 7:42ἐρήμῳ · wilderness
    But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
  38. Acts 7:44ἐρήμῳ · wilderness
    Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.
  39. Acts 8:26ἔρημος · desert
    Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go south to the desert road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.”
  40. Acts 13:18ἐρήμῳ · wilderness
    He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.
  41. Acts 21:38ἔρημον · wilderness
    “Aren’t you the Egyptian who incited a rebellion some time ago and led four thousand members of the Assassins into the wilderness?”
  42. 1 Corinthians 10:5ἐρήμῳ · wilderness
    Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
  43. Galatians 4:27ἐρήμου · desolate woman
    For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”
  44. Hebrews 3:8ἐρήμῳ · wilderness
    …do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,
  45. Hebrews 3:17ἐρήμῳ · wilderness
    And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
  46. Revelation 12:6ἔρημον · wilderness
    And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place for her to be nourished for 1,260 days.
  47. Revelation 12:14ἔρημον · wilderness
    But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.
  48. Revelation 17:3ἔρημον · a wilderness
    And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, where I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.