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ἐρημία

erēmía · G2047 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. desert, wilderness, lonely place

    A largely uninhabited region, normally with sparse vegetation (in contrast with πόλις ‘a population center,’)

    Examples

    Matthew 15:33 The disciples said to Him, “Where would we get so many loaves in this desolate place to satisfy such a large crowd?”

    Mark 8:4 And His disciples replied to Him, “Where will anyone be able to find enough bread here in this desolate place to satisfy these people?”

    2 Corinthians 11:26 I have been on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers at sea, dangers among false brothers;

How it’s used In 1 role

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4 occurrences in 2 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Desert, wilderness, lonely place1.86
In Matthew 15:33, the disciples ask Jesus, “Where would we get so many loaves in this desolate place to satisfy such a large crowd?” the noun for an uninhabited, lonely place.
Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἔρημος érēmos · G2048 · uninhabited, deserted, desert · 47×ἐρημόω erēmóō · G2049 · to be destroyed, to suffer destruction, to suffer desolation · 5×ἐρημίαerēmía · G2047ἐρήμωσις erḗmōsis · G2050 · destroyed, destruction, desolation · 3×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐρημίας, ἡ (ἔρημος), a solitude, an uninhabited region, a waste: Mt 15:33; Mk 8:4; Heb…
ἐρημίας, ἡ (ἔρημος), a solitude, an uninhabited region, a waste: Mt 15:33; Mk 8:4; Heb 11:38; opposed to πόλις, 2 Cor 11:26, as in Josephus, Antiquities 2, 3, 1.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Areas Which Are Uninhabited or Only Sparsely Populated4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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