Strong's #2048: eremos (pronounced er'-ay-mos)
of uncertain affinity; lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually as a noun, 5561 being implied):--desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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erēmos
1) solitary, lonely, desolate, uninhabited
1a) used of places
1a1) a desert, wilderness
1a2) deserted places, lonely regions
1a3) an uncultivated region fit for pasturage
1b) used of persons
1b1) deserted by others
1b2) deprived of the aid and protection of others, especially of friends, acquaintances, kindred
1b3) bereft
1b3a) of a flock deserted by the shepherd
1b3b) of a woman neglected by her husband, from whom the husband withholds himself
Part of Speech: adjective
Relation: of uncertain affinity
Citing in TDNT: 2:657, 255
Usage:
This word is used 51 times:
Matthew 3:1: "preaching in the wilderness of Judea,"
Matthew 3:3: "of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord,"
Matthew 4:1: "spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil."
Matthew 11:7: "went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with"
Matthew 14:13: "by ship into a desert place apart: and"
Matthew 14:15: "to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time"
Matthew 23:38: "house is left unto you desolate."
Matthew 24:26: "he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in"
Mark 1:3: "of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord,"
Mark 1:4: "baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance"
Mark 1:12: "him into the wilderness."
Mark 1:13: "there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of"
Mark 1:35: "he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed."
Mark 1:45: "was without in desert places: and they came to"
Mark 6:31: "yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest"
Mark 6:32: "And they departed into a desert place by ship privately."
Mark 6:35: "his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place,"
Luke 1:80: "was in the deserts till the day of his showing"
Luke 3:2: "son of Zacharias in the wilderness."
Luke 3:4: "of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord,"
Luke 4:1: "Spirit into the wilderness,"
Luke 4:42: "he departed and went into a desert place: and the people"
Luke 5:16: "withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed."
Luke 7:24: "went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with"
Luke 8:29: "the devil into the wilderness.)"
Luke 9:10: "and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called"
Luke 9:12: "victuals: for we are here in a desert place."
Luke 13:35: "house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you,"
Luke 15:4: "ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost,"
John 1:23: "of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord,"
John 3:14: "serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son"
John 6:31: "manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave"
John 6:49: "manna in the wilderness, and are dead."
John 11:54: "a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim,"
Acts 1:20: "Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell"
Acts 7:30: "to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai an angel of the Lord"
Acts 7:36: "sea, and in the wilderness forty years."
Acts 7:38: "church in the wilderness with the angel which spake"
Acts 7:42: "of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts"
Acts 7:42: "of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts"
Acts 7:44: "of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make"
Acts 8:26: "Gaza, which is desert."
Acts 13:18: "suffered he their manners in the wilderness."
Acts 21:38: "leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?"
1 Corinthians 10:5: "for they were overthrown in the wilderness."
Galatians 4:27: "not; for the desolate hath many more children"
Hebrews 3:8: "of temptation in the wilderness:"
Hebrews 3:17: "fell in the wilderness?"
Revelation 12:6: "fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared"
Revelation 12:14: "she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where"
