Eremia means “desert” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2047 — hathak (“Hatach”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2047 ἐρημία (eremia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. eremia (er-ay-mee'-ah) n. 1. solitude (concretely) [from G2048] It has 10 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include wilderness and deserts. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
eremia (er-ay-mee'-ah) n. 1. solitude (concretely) [from G2048] KJV: desert, wilderness Root(s): G2048
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2047. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
desert
Usage: ἐρημία, -ας, ἡ (ἔρημος), [in LXX: Isa.60:20, Eze.35:4 (חָרַב, חׇרְבָּה), Eze.35:9 (שְׁמָמָה), Wis.17:17, Sir.47:17, Bar.4:33, 4Ma.18:8 * ;] a solitude, wilderness: Mat.15:33, Mrk.8:4, 2Co.11:26, Heb.11:38.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render eremia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2047 (ἐρημία) appears 6 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
4 indexed usages in New Testament.
And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?
In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
For the nations and the kings which will not serve thee shall perish; and those nations shall be made utterly desolate.
And I will cause desolation in thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited anymore: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
No destroyer of the desert, or ravisher of the plain, injured me; nor did the destructive, deceitful, snake, make spoil of my chaste virginity; and I remained with my husband during the period of my prime.
So then whosoever there fell down was straitly kept, Shut up in a prison without iron bars.
For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.
First 10 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2047.
For the nations and the kings which will not serve thee shall perish; and those nations shall be made utterly desolate.
And I will cause desolation in thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited anymore: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?
In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
No destroyer of the desert, or ravisher of the plain, injured me; nor did the destructive, deceitful, snake, make spoil of my chaste virginity; and I remained with my husband during the period of my prime.
So then whosoever there fell down was straitly kept, Shut up in a prison without iron bars.
For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2047, grouped by book.
Eremia (Strong's G2047) is a Greek word most simply glossed "desert". eremia (er-ay-mee'-ah) n. 1. solitude (concretely) [from G2048]
This page currently indexes 10 linked usages for Strong's G2047 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2047 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as wilderness and deserts. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2047, with linked reader references where each row is available.