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Strong's G2048 ἔρημος (eremos)

Eremos means “desert” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2048 — hathal (“deride”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2048
Language Greek
Linked Usages 396
Books 49

Strong's G2048 Quick Answer

Strong's G2048 ἔρημος (eremos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. eremos (er'-ay-mos) adj. 1. lonesome 2. (by implication) waste It has 396 linked Bible usages across 49 books. Visible English usage signals include wilderness, lord, israel, into, and land. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
eremos (er'-ay-mos) adj. 1. lonesome 2. (by implication) waste
Usage
396 linked usages
Books
49 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
wilderness, lord, israel, into, and land

Meaning and Definition

eremos (er'-ay-mos) adj. 1. lonesome 2. (by implication) waste {(usually as a noun, G5561 being implied)} [of uncertain affinity] KJV: desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness See also: G5561

Original Word
ἔρημος
Transliteration
eremos
Morphology
adjective

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2048. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

deserted

Usage: ἔρημος (in older Gk. ἔρῆμος), -ον [in LXX chiefly for מִדְבָּר ;] solitary, lonely, desolate, deserted: __(a) of persons, γυνή, Gal.4:27 (LXX); __(b) of places, Mat.14:13, 15 23:38 (WH, om.), Mrk.1:36 6:32, Luk.4:42 9:12, al.; as subst., ἡ ἔ. (sc. χώρα; as in Hdt., ii, 32, al.), the desert, Mat.3:1, 3, Mrk.1:3-4, Jhn.3:14, al.; pl., αἱ ἔ., desert places, Luk.1:80 5:16 8:29 (AS)

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English Usage Signals

Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.

wilderness lord israel into land moses god children out departed egypt came

How Strong's G2048 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. 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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 316 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2048 (ἔρημος) appears 369 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2048 by Corpus

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.

Strong's G2048 in the New Testament

50 indexed usages in New Testament.

Strong's G2048 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

316 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 12:9 Septuagint / Brenton

And Abram departed and went and encamped in the wilderness.

Genesis 13:1 Septuagint / Brenton

And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the wilderness.

Genesis 13:3 Septuagint / Brenton

And he went to the place whence he came, into the wilderness as far as Bethel, as far as the place where his tent was before, between Bethel and Ai,

Strong's G2048 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

27 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Strong's G2048 in 1 Enoch

3 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2048.

Genesis 12:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abram departed and went and encamped in the wilderness.
Genesis 13:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the wilderness.
Genesis 13:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he went to the place whence he came, into the wilderness as far as Bethel, as far as the place where his tent was before, between Bethel and Ai,
Genesis 14:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Horites in the mountains of Seir, to the turpentine tree of Paran, which is in the desert.
Genesis 16:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And an angel of the Lord found her by the fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
Genesis 21:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abraham rose up in the morning and took loaves and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, and he put the child on her shoulder, and sent her away, and she having departed wandered in the wilderness near the well of the oath.
Genesis 21:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God was with the child, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
Genesis 21:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he dwelt in the wilderness, and his mother took him a wife out of Paran of Egypt.
Genesis 24:62 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Isaac went through the wilderness to the well of the vision, and he dwelt in the land toward the south.
Genesis 36:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And these are the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah; this is the Anah who found Jamin in the wilderness, when he tended the beasts of his father Zibeon.
Genesis 37:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Reuben said to them, Shed not blood; cast him into one of these pits in the wilderness, but do not lay your hand upon him; that he might rescue him out of their hands, and restore him to his father.
Exodus 3:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses was feeding the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he brought the sheep nigh to the wilderness, and came to the mount of Horeb.
Exodus 3:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall hearken to thy voice, and thou and the elders of Israel shall go in to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and thou shalt say to him, The God of the Hebrews has called us; we will go then a journey of three days into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to our God.
Exodus 4:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses; and he went and met him in the mount of God, and they kissed each other.
Exodus 5:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And after this went in Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh, and they said to him, These things says the Lord God of Israel, Send my people away, that they may keep a feast to me in the wilderness.
Exodus 5:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they say to him, The God of the Hebrews has called us to him: we will go therefore a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest at any time death or slaughter happen to us.
Exodus 7:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt say to him, The Lord God of the Hebrews has sent me to thee, saying, Send my people away, that they may serve me in the wilderness, and, behold, hitherto thou hast not hearkened.
Exodus 8:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh: and, behold, he will go forth to the water, and thou shalt say to him, These things says the Lord: Send away my people, that they may serve me in the wilderness.
Exodus 8:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
We will go a journey of three days into the wilderness, and we will sacrifice to the Lord our God, as the Lord said to us.
Exodus 8:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, and do ye sacrifice to your God in the wilderness, but do not go very far away: pray then for me to the Lord.
Exodus 13:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God led the people round by the way to the wilderness, to the Red Sea: and in the fifth generation the children of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 13:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel departed from Succoth, and encamped in Etham by the wilderness.
Exodus 14:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Pharaoh will say to his people, As for these children of Israel, they are wandering in the land, for the wilderness has shut them in.
Exodus 14:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and said to Moses, Because there were no graves in the land of Egypt, hast thou brought us forth to slay us in the wilderness? What is this that thou hast done to us, having brought us out of Egypt?
Exodus 14:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Is not this the word which we spoke to thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians? for it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in this wilderness.
Exodus 15:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So Moses brought up the children of Israel from the Red Sea, and brought them into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water to drink.
Exodus 16:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they departed from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai; and on the fifteenth day, in the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt,
Exodus 16:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel said to them, Would we had died smitten by the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots, and ate bread to satiety! for ye have brought us out into this wilderness, to slay all this congregation with hunger.
Exodus 16:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when Aaron spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they turned toward the wilderness, then the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud.
Exodus 16:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
in the morning it came to pass as the dew ceased round about the camp, that, behold, on the face of the wilderness was a small thing like white coriander seed, as frost upon the earth.
Exodus 16:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Fill an omer with manna, to be laid up for your generations; that they may see the bread which ye ate in the wilderness, when the Lord led you forth out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 17:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the wilderness of Sin, according to their encampments, by the word of the Lord; and they encamped in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
Exodus 18:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jethro the father-in-law of Moses, and his sons and his wife, went forth to Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped on the mount of God.
Exodus 19:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And in the third month of the departure of the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, on the same day, they came into the wilderness of Sinai.
Exodus 19:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they departed from Rephidim, and came into the wilderness of Sinai, and there Israel encamped before the mountain.
Exodus 23:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will not cast them out in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.
Exodus 23:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will set thy borders from the Red Sea, to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the great river Euphrates; and I will give into your hand those that dwell in the land, and will cast them out from thee.
Leviticus 7:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
as the Lord commanded Moses in the Mount Sinai, in the day in which he commanded the children of Israel to offer their gifts before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai.
Leviticus 16:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the goat upon which the lot of the scapegoat came, he shall present alive before the Lord, to make atonement upon him, so as to send him away as a scapegoat, and he shall send him into the wilderness.
Leviticus 16:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and Aaron shall lay his hands on the head of the live goat, and he shall declare over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their unrighteousnesses, and all their sins; and he shall lay them upon the head of the live goat, and shall send him by the hand of a ready man into the wilderness.
Leviticus 16:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the goat shall bear their unrighteousnesses upon him into a desert land; and Aaron shall send away the goat into the wilderness.
Leviticus 26:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will lay your cities waste, and I will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell the savor of your sacrifices.
Leviticus 26:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will scatter you among the nations, and the sword shall come upon you and consume you; and your land shall be desolate, and your cities shall be desolate.
Numbers 1:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of witness, on the first day of the second month, in the second year of their departure from the land of Egypt, saying,
Numbers 1:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
as the Lord commanded Moses, so they were numbered in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 3:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai; and they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priests’ office with Aaron their father.
Numbers 3:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
Numbers 9:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the second year after they had gone forth from the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying,
Numbers 9:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
on the fourteenth day of the first month in the wilderness of Sinai, as the Lord appointed Moses, so the children of Israel did.
Numbers 10:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel set forward with their baggage in the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 10:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, Leave us not, because thou hast been with us in the wilderness, and thou shalt be an elder among us.
Numbers 12:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And afterward the people set forth from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 13:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses sent them out of the wilderness of Paran by the word of the Lord; all these were the princes of the sons of Israel.
Numbers 13:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up by this wilderness; and ye shall go up to the mountain,
Numbers 13:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they went up and surveyed the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, as men go in to Hamath.
Numbers 13:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they went up by the wilderness, and departed as far as Hebron; and there was Ahiman, and Sheshai, and Talmai, the progeny of Anak. Now Hebron was built seven years before Tanis of Egypt.
Numbers 13:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they proceeded and came to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran Kadesh; and they brought word to them and to all the congregation, and they showed the fruit of the land:
Numbers 14:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron; and all the congregation said to them,
Numbers 14:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which he swore to them, he has overthrown them in the wilderness.
Numbers 14:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For all the men who see my glory, and the signs which I wrought in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me this tenth time, and have not hearkened to my voice,
Numbers 14:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But Amalek and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn and depart for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
Numbers 14:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all those of you that were reviewed, and those of you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, all that murmured against me,
Numbers 14:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness.
Numbers 14:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And your sons shall be fed in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your fornication, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness.
Numbers 14:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I the Lord have spoken, Surely will I do thus to this evil congregation that has risen up together against me: in this wilderness they shall be utterly consumed, and there they shall die.
Numbers 15:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.
Numbers 16:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Is it a little thing that thou hast brought us up to a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, and that thou altogether rulest over us?
Numbers 20:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin, in the first month, and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
Numbers 20:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And wherefore have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, to kill us and our cattle?
Numbers 21:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Arad the Canaanitish king who dwelt by the wilderness, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he made war on Israel, and carried off some of them captives.
Numbers 21:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the people spoke against God and against Moses, saying, Why is this? Hast thou brought us out of Egypt to slay us in the wilderness? for there is not bread nor water; and our soul loathes this light bread.
Numbers 21:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And having departed from Oboth, they encamped in Achalgai, on the farther side in the wilderness, which is opposite Moab, toward the east.
Numbers 21:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they departed thence and encamped on the other side of Arnon in the wilderness, the country which extends from the coasts of the Amorites; for Arnon is the borders of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
Numbers 21:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses sent ambassadors to Sihon king of the Amorites, with peaceable words, saying,
Numbers 21:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Sihon did not allow Israel to pass through his borders, and Sihon gathered all his people, and went out to set the battle in array against Israel into the wilderness; and he came to Jahaz, and set the battle in array against Israel.
Numbers 23:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which extends to the wilderness.
Numbers 24:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when Balaam saw that it pleased God to bless Israel, he did not go according to his custom to meet the omens, but turned his face toward the wilderness.
Numbers 26:61 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 26:64 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And among these there was not a man numbered by Moses and Aaron, whom, even the children of Israel, they numbered in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 26:65 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the Lord said to them, They shall surely die in the wilderness; and there was not left even one of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Numbers 27:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the midst of the congregation that rebelled against the Lord in the gathering of Korah; for he died for his own sin, and he had no sons. Let not the name of our father be blotted out of the midst of his people, because he has no son: give us an inheritance in the midst of our father’s brethren.
Numbers 27:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
because ye transgressed my commandment in the wilderness of Zin, when the congregation resisted and refused to sanctify me; ye sanctified me not at the water before them. This is the water of Strife in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
Numbers 32:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord was very angry with Israel; and for forty years he caused them to wander in the wilderness, until all the generation which did evil in the sight of the Lord was extinct.
Numbers 32:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For ye will turn away from him to desert him yet once more in the wilderness, and ye will sin against this whole congregation.
Numbers 33:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they departed from Succoth and encamped in Etham, which is a part of the wilderness.
Numbers 33:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they departed from before Hahiroth, and crossed the middle of the sea into the wilderness; and they went a journey of three days through the wilderness, and encamped in Picriae.
Numbers 33:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they departed from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
Numbers 33:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they departed from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
Numbers 33:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they departed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 33:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they departed from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped at the Graves of Lust.
Numbers 33:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they departed from Ezion-geber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin; and they departed from the wilderness of Zin, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran; this is Kadesh.
Numbers 34:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And your southern side shall be from the wilderness of Zin to the border of Edom, and your border southward shall extend on the side of the salt sea eastward.
Deuteronomy 1:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side Jordan in the desert toward the west near the Red Sea, between Paran Tophel, and Laban, and Aulon, and the gold works.
Deuteronomy 1:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And we departed from Horeb, and went through all that great wilderness and terrible, which ye saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite, as the Lord our God charged us, and we came as far as Kadesh-barnea.
Deuteronomy 1:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and in this wilderness which ye saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite; how the Lord thy God will bear thee as a nursling, as if any man should nurse his child, through all the way which ye have gone until ye came to this place.
Deuteronomy 1:40 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye turned and marched into the wilderness, in the way by the Red Sea.
Deuteronomy 2:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And we turned and departed into the wilderness, by the way of the Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and we compassed Mount Seir many days.
Deuteronomy 2:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the Lord our God has blessed thee in every work of thy hands. Consider how thou wentest through that great and terrible wilderness: behold, the Lord thy God has been with thee forty years; thou didst not lack anything.
Deuteronomy 2:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And we passed by our brethren the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, by the way of Arabah from Elath and from Ezion-geber; and we turned and passed by the way of the desert of Moab.
Deuteronomy 2:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I sent ambassadors from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with peaceable words, saying,
Deuteronomy 4:43 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead belonging to Gad, and Golan in Bashan belonging to Manasseh.
Deuteronomy 4:45 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
These are the testimonies, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt:
Deuteronomy 6:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God is one Lord.
Deuteronomy 7:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord thy God shall consume these nations before thee by little and little: thou shalt not be able to consume them speedily, lest the land become desert, and the wild beasts of the field be multiplied against thee.
Deuteronomy 8:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee in the wilderness, that he might afflict thee, and try thee, and that the things in thy heart might be made manifest, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no.
Deuteronomy 8:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
who brought thee through that great and terrible wilderness, where is the biting serpent, and scorpion, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee a fountain of water out of the flinty rock:
Deuteronomy 8:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
who fed thee with manna in the wilderness, which thou knewest not, and thy fathers knew not; that he might afflict thee, and thoroughly try thee, and do thee good in thy latter days.
Deuteronomy 9:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Remember, forget not, how much thou provokedst the Lord thy God in the wilderness: from the day that ye came forth out of Egypt, even till ye came into this place, ye continued to be disobedient toward the Lord.
Deuteronomy 9:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Lest the inhabitants of the land whence thou broughtest us out speak, saying, Because the Lord could not bring them into the land of which he spoke to them, and because he hated them, has he brought them forth to slay them in the wilderness.
Deuteronomy 11:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and all the things which he did to you in the wilderness until ye came into this place;
Deuteronomy 11:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours; from the wilderness and Antilebanon, and from the great river, the river Euphrates, even as far as the west sea shall be your coasts.
Deuteronomy 29:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Yet the Lord God has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.
Deuteronomy 32:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He maintained him in the wilderness, In burning thirst and a dry land: He led him about and instructed him, And kept him as the apple of an eye.
Deuteronomy 32:51 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because ye disobeyed my word among the children of Israel, at the waters of strife of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not among the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy 34:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the wilderness, and the country round about Jericho, the city of palm trees, to Zoar.
Joshua 1:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The wilderness and Antilebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, and as far as the extremity of the sea; your coasts shall be from the setting of the sun.
Joshua 5:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore most of the fighting men that came out of the land of Egypt, were uncircumcised, who disobeyed the commands of God; concerning whom also he determined that they should not see the land, which the Lord swore to give to their fathers, even a land flowing with milk and honey.
Joshua 12:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
in the mountain, and in the plain, and in Arabah, and in Asedoth, and in the wilderness, and Negeb; the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Joshua 14:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now the Lord has kept me alive as he said: this is the forty-fifth year since the Lord spoke that word to Moses; and Israel journeyed in the wilderness; and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.
Joshua 15:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the borders of the tribe of Judah according to their families were from the borders of Edom from the wilderness of Zin, as far as Kadesh southward.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2048, grouped by book.

Genesis 11 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 26 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 49 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 23 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 11 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 12 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 19 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 38 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 26 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 34 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joel 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Haggai 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Malachi 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 8 usages, New Testament
Mark 9 usages, New Testament
Luke 12 usages, New Testament
John 5 usages, New Testament
Acts 9 usages, New Testament
1 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
Galatians 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 2 usages, New Testament
Revelation 3 usages, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 9 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Baruch 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 3 usages, 1 Enoch

Strong's G2048 FAQ

What does eremos (ἔρημος) mean?

Eremos (Strong's G2048) is a Greek word most simply glossed "desert". eremos (er'-ay-mos) adj. 1. lonesome 2. (by implication) waste

How many times is eremos (ἔρημος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 396 linked usages for Strong's G2048 across 49 books.

Where can I study eremos (ἔρημος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2048 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate eremos (ἔρημος)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as wilderness, lord, israel, into, land, and moses. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2048 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 316 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 27 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 3 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G2048, with linked reader references where each row is available.