Greek noun (feminine) · G2047
ἐρημία
eremiaer-ay-mee'-ah
desert
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: erēmía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2047is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2047
solitude (concretely)
The King James renders it: desert, wilderness.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
eremia is rendered "desert". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 15:33The disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could we find enough bread to feed such a large crowd?”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
The disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could we find enough bread to feed such a large crowd?”
Matthew 15:33ἐρημίᾳ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's four uses is in Matthew.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a secluded place1
- deserts1
- this desolate place1
- wilderness1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐρημίᾳ2
- ἐρημίαις1
- ἐρημίας1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular2N-DSF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural1N-DPF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1N-GSF
Matthew
one use
The disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could we find enough bread to feed such a large crowd?”
- ἐρημίᾳeremianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: a secluded place
Mark
one use
His disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could anyone find enough bread to feed all these people?”
- ἐρημίαςeremiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: this desolate place
2 Corinthians
one use
In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,
- ἐρημίᾳeremianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: wilderness
Hebrews
one use
The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.
- ἐρημίαιςeremiaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: deserts
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.