Greek verb · G2049
ἐρημόω
eremooer-ay-mo'-o
to lay waste
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: erēmóō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2049is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2049
to lay waste (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: (bring to, make) desolate(-ion), come to nought.
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
eremoo is rendered "to lay waste". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 12:25Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.
Matthew 12:25ἐρημοῦται
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's five uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- is brought to desolation2
- desolated1
- has been brought to desolation1
- she has been desolated1
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 5, 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
- ἐρημοῦται2
- ἠρημώθη2
- ἠρημωμένην1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-API-3S
- verb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-PPI-3S
- verb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · feminine singular1V-RPP-ASF
Matthew
one use
Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.
- ἐρημοῦταιeremoutaiverb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: is brought to desolation
Luke
one use
Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste, and a house divided against a house will fall.
- ἐρημοῦταιeremoutaiverb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: is brought to desolation
Revelation
three uses
And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.
- ἠρημωμένηνeremomenenverb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: desolated
For in a single hour such fabulous wealth has been destroyed!” Every shipmaster, passenger, and sailor, and all who make their living from the sea, will stand at a distance
- ἠρημώθηeremotheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: has been brought to desolation
Then they will throw dust on their heads as they weep and mourn and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, where all who had ships on the sea were enriched by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been destroyed.”
- ἠρημώθηeremotheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: she has been desolated
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.