noun · feminine
erēmōsias
Strong’sG2050
desolation, devastation
stem erēmōsi-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.
† ἐρήμωσις, -εως, ἡ
(< ἐρημόω), [in LXX for שׁמם, Le 26:34-35, Ps 73:10, Da 9:27 11:31 12:11, al.; חׇרְבָּה, Je 7:34 22:5, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2050 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saider-ay'-mo-sis
despoliation
Fromfrom G2049;
King Jamesdesolation.
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
making desolate, LXX+2nd c.AD+
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 | erēmōsias1×ἐρήμωσις | erēmōsiais |
| object accusative | erēmōsian | erēmōsiain |
| direct address vocative | erēmōsiar | erēmōsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | erēmōsiau2×ἐρημώσεως | erēmōsiaiu |
| to, for dative | erēmōsia | erēmōsiai |
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
erēmōsia 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
erēmōsias“desolation”subjectnominative singular1×
Luke 21:20… Ierousalēm, tote gnōskavar hoti engizatē tas erēmōsias autau.… armies, you will know that her desolation is near.
erēmōsiau“desolation”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Matthew 24:15Hotan oun horaveia tem bdelugmem tau erēmōsiau tem legirantem dia Daniēl tou profētou …… the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by the prophet Daniel …
Mark 13:14Hotan de horaveia tem bdelugmem tau erēmōsiau stēarēnton hopou ouk datō, tos anagnōskarōntos …… when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be …