noun · feminine
erēmias
Strong’sG2047
a desert place
stem erēmi-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἐρημία, -ας, ἡ
(< ἔρημος), [in LXX: Is 60:20, Ez 35:4 (חָרֵב, חׇרְבָּה), ib. 35:9 (שִׁמֲמָה), Wi 17:17, Si 47:17, Ba 4:33, IV Mac 18:8 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2047 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saider-ay-mee'-ah
solitude (concretely)
Fromfrom G2048;
King Jamesdesert, wilderness.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
I of places, a solitude, desert, wilderness, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἕρπει εἰς τὰς ἐρημίας to solitary places, Refs 4th c.BC+
II as a state or condition, solitude, loneliness, ἐρημίαν ἄγειν, to keep alone, Refs 5th c.BC+; of persons, isolation, destitution, Refs 5th c.BC+; δι᾽ ἐρημίαν from being left alone, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.b of places, desolation, ἐρημίᾳ δοῦναί τι Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐρημία..πόλιν ὅταν λάβῃRefs 5th c.BC+
II.2 with genitive, want of, absence, φίλων Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀρσένων, βροτῶν, ἀνδρῶν, Refs 5th c.BC+, etc.; δι᾽ ἐρημίας πολεμίων πορευόμενος without finding any enemy, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὴν ἐ. τῶν κωλυσόντων ὁρῶν seeing that there would be none to hinder him, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἐ. σώματος, ={κενόν}, Refs 4th c.BC+; even ἐ. κακῶν freedom from evil, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | erēmias | erēmiais |
| object accusative | erēmian | erēmiain |
| direct address vocative | erēmiar | erēmiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | erēmiau1×ἐρημίας | erēmiaiu |
| to, for dative | erēmia2×ἐρημίᾳ | erēmiai1×ἐρημίαις |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
erēmia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
erēmiau“desolate place”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Mark 8:4… duneti tinos hōde chortazara artoiu epi erēmiau?His disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could anyone find enough bread to …
erēmia“wilderness”to, fordative singular2×
Matthew 15:33… auto tois mathētois; Pothen ni en erēmia artois tosoutois hōste chortazara ochlon tosouton?The disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could we find enough bread to …
2 Corinthians 11:26“wilderness”… ethneiu, kindunoi en pola, kindunoi en erēmia, kindunoi en thalassa, kindunoi en pseudadelfoi,… rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,
erēmiai“deserts”to, fordative plural1×
Hebrews 11:38… ouk ate axios tos kosmos epi erēmiai planorōntois kai orei kai spēlaiei kai …… worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves …