Biblica Analytica
G2048 Greek

ἔρημος

erēmos

deserted

Lexicon Entry

Definition
deserted
Transliteration
erēmos
Strong's Number
G2048
Occurrences
50

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

What Original Readers Understood

Explored

The Greek word ἔρημος (erēmos) is defined as "deserted." It appears 50 times in the Bible, indicating its significance in the text. In terms of meaning, ἔρημος typically refers to a place or location that is uninhabited or devoid of people. This can be a physical desert, a city left vacant, or even a social or emotional state of isolation. The word does not necessarily imply a negative connotation, as it can also describe a state of solitude or quiet contemplation. The range of usage for ἔρημος is quite broad, encompassing various aspects of life, including geography, society, and personal experience. Its frequency in the Bible suggests that the concept of desolation or emptiness is an important theme in the text, warranting further exploration and analysis.

Source data & methodology
Strong's
G2048
Lemma
ἔρημος
Transliteration
erēmos
Definition
deserted
Occurrences
50
Model
workers-ai
Prompt version
1

AI synthesis uses only the lexicon data above as context — never training knowledge.

Occurrences in Scripture

50 total occurrences across the text

Matthew 14:13

Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat, to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.

Matthew 3:1

In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

Matthew 3:3

For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready! Make his paths straight!”

Matthew 4:1

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

Matthew 11:7

As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

Matthew 14:15

When evening had come, his disciples came to him, saying, “This place is deserted, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves food.”

Matthew 23:38

Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

Matthew 24:26

If therefore they tell you, ‘Behold, he is in the wilderness,’ don’t go out; or ‘Behold, he is in the inner rooms,’ don’t believe it.

Mark 1:3

the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight!’ ”

Mark 1:4

John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.

Mark 1:12

Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness.

Mark 1:13

He was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals; and the angels were serving him.

Mark 1:35

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

Mark 1:45

But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places. People came to him from everywhere.

Mark 6:31

He said to them, “You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile.” For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

Mark 6:32

They went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.

Mark 6:35

When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, “This place is deserted, and it is late in the day.

Luke 1:80

The child was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

Luke 3:2

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

Luke 3:4

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.

Luke 4:1

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

Luke 4:42

When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn’t go away from them.

Luke 5:16

But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

Luke 7:24

When John’s messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

Luke 8:29

For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bonds apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.

Luke 9:10

The apostles, when they had returned, told him what things they had done. He took them and withdrew apart to a desert region of a city called Bethsaida.

Luke 9:12

The day began to wear away; and the twelve came and said to him, “Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place.”

Luke 13:35

Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”

Luke 15:4

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

John 1:23

He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

John 3:14

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

John 6:31

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’ ”

John 6:49

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died.

John 11:54

Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.

Acts 1:20

For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his habitation be made desolate. Let no one dwell in it;’ and, ‘Let another take his office.’

Acts 7:30

“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

Acts 7:36

This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

Acts 7:38

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,

Acts 7:42

But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Acts 7:44

“Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;

Acts 8:26

But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert.”

Acts 13:18

For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

Acts 21:38

Aren’t you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?”

1 Corinthians 10:5

However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Galatians 4:27

For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you who don’t travail. For the desolate have more children than her who has a husband.”

Hebrews 3:8

don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

Hebrews 3:17

With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Revelation 12:6

The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.

Revelation 12:14

Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

Revelation 17:3

He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.