Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
to lay waste
Usage: ἐρημόω, -ῶ (ἔρημος), [in LXX for חָרַב hi., שָׁמֵם ni., etc. ;] to desolate, lay waste: Mat.12:25, Luk.11:17, Rev.17:16 18:16, 19.† (AS)
Eremoo means “come to nought” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2049 — hathol (“mocker”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2049 ἐρημόω (eremoo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. eremoo (er-ay-moh'-o) v. 1. to lay waste {literally or figuratively} It has 66 linked Bible usages across 22 books. Visible English usage signals include make, come, and desolate. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
eremoo (er-ay-moh'-o) v. 1. to lay waste {literally or figuratively} [from G2048] KJV: (bring to, make) desolate(-ion), come to nought Root(s): G2048
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to lay waste
Usage: ἐρημόω, -ῶ (ἔρημος), [in LXX for חָרַב hi., שָׁמֵם ni., etc. ;] to desolate, lay waste: Mat.12:25, Luk.11:17, Rev.17:16 18:16, 19.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render eremoo, 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 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, 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.
Strong's G2049 (ἐρημόω) appears 68 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.
5 indexed usages in New Testament.
And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.
And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
46 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
In order, then, that we die not before thee, and the land be made desolate, buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: give seed that we may sow, and live and not die, so our land shall not be made desolate.
And I will send upon you the wild beasts of the land, and they shall devour you, and shall consume your cattle: and I will make you few in number, and your ways shall be desolate.
And I will render your pillars desolate, and will utterly destroy your wooden images made with hands; and I will lay your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall loathe you.
14 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
To King Artaxerxes our lord, Thy servants, Rehum the storywriter, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their council, and the judges that are in Coelesyria and Phoenicia.
if he command to smite, they smite; if he command to make desolate, they make desolate; if he command to build, they build;
Thou also hast vowed to build up the temple, which the Idumeans burned when Judea was made desolate by the Chaldees.
1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.
Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons. And the whole earth has been corrupted
First 66 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2049.
In order, then, that we die not before thee, and the land be made desolate, buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: give seed that we may sow, and live and not die, so our land shall not be made desolate.
And I will send upon you the wild beasts of the land, and they shall devour you, and shall consume your cattle: and I will make you few in number, and your ways shall be desolate.
And I will render your pillars desolate, and will utterly destroy your wooden images made with hands; and I will lay your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall loathe you.
And I will remember the land, and the land shall be left of them; then the land shall enjoy her Sabbaths, when it is deserted through them: and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquities, because they neglected my judgments, and in their soul loathed my ordinances.
And the people saw him, and sang praises to their god; for our god, said they, has delivered into our hand our enemy, who wasted our land, and who multiplied our slain.
For truly, Lord, the kings of Assyria have wasted the nations,
That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
For the sea wastes in length of time, And a river fails and is dried up.
Let their habitation be made desolate; And let there be no inhabitant in their tents:
For they have devoured Jacob, And laid his place waste.
Your land is desolate, your cities burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is made desolate, overthrown by strange nations.
And I said, How long, O Lord? And he said, Until the cities be deserted by reason of their not being inhabited, and the houses by reason of there being no men, and the land shall be left desolate.
And the Lord shall make desolate the Sea of Egypt; and he shall lay his hand on the river with a strong wind, and he shall smite the seven channels, so that men shall pass through it dry-shod.
And if thou depart to the land of the Chaldeans, this also is laid waste by the Assyrians, for her wall is fallen.
Behold, the Lord is about to lay waste the world, and will make it desolate, and will lay bare the surface of it, and scatter them that dwell therein.
All the city has become desolate: one shall shut his house so that none shall enter.
For the ways of these shall be made desolate: the terror of the nations has been made to cease, and the covenant with these is taken away, and ye shall by no means deem them men.
and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up: it shall be made desolate throughout her generations,
For of a truth, Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste the whole world, and the countries thereof,
and I have made a bridge, and dried up the waters, and every pool of water.
Who says to the deep, Thou shalt be dried up, and I will dry up the rivers.
And thou shalt soon be built by those by whom thou wert destroyed, and they that made thee desolate shall go forth of thee.
Art thou not it that dried the sea, the water, even the abundance of the deep; that made the depths of the sea a way of passage for the delivered and redeemed?
spread forth thy tent yet to the right and the left: for thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and thou shalt make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
For the nations and the kings which will not serve thee shall perish; and those nations shall be made utterly desolate.
Lift up thine eyes to look straight forward, and see where thou hast not been utterly defiled. Thou hast sat for them by the wayside as a deserted crow, and hast defiled the land with thy fornications and thy wickedness.
Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will judge thine adversary, and I will execute vengeance for thee; and I will waste her sea, and dry up her fountain.
Thou shalt surely die, because thou hast prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, This house shall be as Shiloh, and this city shall be made quite destitute of inhabitants. And all the people assembled against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord; There shall yet be heard in this place, of which ye say, It is destitute of men and cattle, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, the places that have been made desolate for want of men and cattle,
Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is crushed: the nations are destroyed: she is turned to me: she that was full is made desolate:
For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make the city desolate, as the cities that shall not be inhabited, when I have brought the deep up upon thee,
And I will cause her land to be utterly destroyed in the midst of a land that is desolate, and her cities shall be desolate forty years in the midst of cities that are desolate: and I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and will utterly scatter them into the countries.
And it shall be made desolate in the midst of desolate countries, and their cities shall be desolate in the midst of the desolate cities:
when I shall give up Egypt to destruction, and the land shall be made desolate with the fullness thereof; when I shall scatter all that dwell in it, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Son of man, they that inhabit the desolate places on the land of Israel say, Abraham was one, and he possessed the land: and we are more numerous; to us the land is given for a possession.
As I live, surely they that are in the desolate places shall fall by swords, and they that are in the open plain shall be given for food to the wild beasts of the field, and them that are in the fortified cities and them that are in the caves I will slay with pestilence.
And I will make the land desert, and the pride of her strength shall perish; and the mountains of Israel shall be made desolate by reason of no man passing through.
And they shall know that I am the Lord; and I will make their land desert, and it shall be made desolate because of all their abominations which they have wrought.
and say to it, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and will make thee a waste, and thou shalt be made desolate.
And I will make Mount Seir a waste, and desolate, and I will destroy from off it men and cattle:
and I will multiply men upon you, even all the house of Israel to the end: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the desolate land shall be built upon.
to seize plunder, and to take their spoil; to turn my hands against the desolate land that is now inhabited, and against a nation that is gathered from many nations, that have acquired property, dwelling in the midst of the land.
And this shall be until the chief captain shall have delivered the captivity: and by reason of him the sacrifice was disturbed, and he prospered; and the holy place shall be made desolate.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; O Tyre, thy land shall be made desolate round about thee; and he shall bring down thy strength out of thee, and thy countries shall be spoiled.
And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.
And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
To King Artaxerxes our lord, Thy servants, Rehum the storywriter, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their council, and the judges that are in Coelesyria and Phoenicia.
if he command to smite, they smite; if he command to make desolate, they make desolate; if he command to build, they build;
Thou also hast vowed to build up the temple, which the Idumeans burned when Judea was made desolate by the Chaldees.
Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts were turned into mourning, her Sabbaths into reproach, her honor into contempt.
And, behold, our sanctuary, even our beauty and our glory, is laid waste, and the Gentiles have profaned it.
And when they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burned up, and shrubs growing in the courts as in a forest, or in one of the mountains, yea, and the priests’ chambers pulled down;
my meaning also being to go through the country, that I may be avenged of them that have destroyed it, and made many cities in the kingdom desolate:
The borders thereof ye have wasted, and done great hurt in the land, and got the dominion of many places within my kingdom.
Yea, a mighty wind shall stand up against them, And like a storm shall blow them away: Thus iniquity shall lay waste the whole earth, And ill dealing shall overthrow the thrones of the mighty.
For by one that hath understanding shall the city be replenished: But the kindred of the wicked shall speedily become desolate.
To terrify and do wrong will waste riches: Thus the house of proud men shall be made desolate.
They burned the chosen city of the sanctuary, And made the streets desolate, according to the prophecy of Jeremiah.
Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many, who for the sins of my children am left desolate; because they departed from the law of God.
and they have carried away the dear beloved children of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate without daughters.
Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons. And the whole earth has been corrupted
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2049, grouped by book.
Eremoo (Strong's G2049) is a Greek word most simply glossed "come to nought". eremoo (er-ay-moh'-o) v. 1. to lay waste {literally or figuratively}
This page currently indexes 66 linked usages for Strong's G2049 across 22 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2049 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as make, come, and desolate. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 46 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 14 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G2049, with linked reader references where each row is available.