ἐρημία
erēmia · desolate place
Greek word · Strong’s number G2047 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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erēmia (ἐρημία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “desolate place”.
Lonely place, wilderness.
How to say it
e·rē·mi·a
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A place without inhabitants, dry land.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- desolate place ×2
- deserts ×1
- wilderness ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Matthew 15:33
And the disciples say to him, “Where would we get so many loaves in a desolate place to satisfy so great a crowd?”
- Mark 8:4
And his disciples answered him, “From where will anyone be able to feed these people with bread here in a desolate place?”
- 2 Corinthians 11:26
on journeys often, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own people, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers;
- Hebrews 11:38
—of whom the world was not worthy— wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and the holes in the ground.