Word

ἐρημόω

erēmóō · G2049 · Greek · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

to be destroyed, to suffer destruction, to suffer desolation

To suffer destruction, with the implication of being deserted and abandoned

Examples
Matthew 12:25 And knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and no city or house divided against itself will stand.
Luke 11:17 But He knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and a house divided against itself falls.
Revelation 17:16 “And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

5 occurrences in 4 groups

βασιλείαkingdom, reign 2
πλοῦτοςriches, wealth 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1
Not stated (participle) 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ἔπωto say 2

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ποιέωto do, to make 1

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

To be destroyed, to suffer destruction, to suffer desolation20.41: In Revelation 18:19, over Babylon's fall the merchants weep and mourn, crying, “Woe, woe, the great city... for in one hour she has been laid waste,” the sense of being destroyed or ruined.

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×ἐρημόωerēmóō · G2049ἐρημία erēmía · G2047 · desert, wilderness, lonely place · 4×ἐρήμωσις erḗmōsis · G2050 · destroyed, destruction, desolation · 3×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐρήμῳ: passive (present 3 person singular (cf. Buttmann, 38 (33)) ἐρημοῦται); perfect…

ἐρήμῳ: passive (present 3 person singular (cf. Buttmann, 38 (33)) ἐρημοῦται); perfect participle ἠρημωμενος; 1 aorist ἐρημωθην; (ἔρημος); from Herodotus down; the Sept. usually for חָרֵב, הֶחֱרִיב, שָׁמֵם; to make desolate, lay waste; in the N. T. only in the passive: πόλιν, Rev 18:19; to ruin, bring to desolation: βασιλείαν, Mt 12:25; Lk 11:17; to reduce to naught: πλοῦτον, Rev 18:17 (16); ἠρημωμένην καί γυμνήν ποιεῖν τινα, to despoil one, strip her of her treasures, Rev 17:16.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Destroy5 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