What does ἐρημία (erēmía) mean in the Bible?
ἐρημία (erēmía): An uninhabited desolate place; wilderness as physical location of hardship and spiritual testing.
Greek · G2047
ἐρημία
Solitude (concretely)
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ἐρημία G2047
Pronunciation erēmía
What does ἐρημία (erēmía) mean in the Bible?
ἐρημία (erēmía): An uninhabited desolate place; wilderness as physical location of hardship and spiritual testing.
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G2047?
The BSB source-word alignment has 4 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include this desolate place (2), [the] country (1), deserts (1).
Where does ἐρημία (erēmía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 15:33. Its strongest book concentrations include 2 Corinthians (1), Hebrews (1), Mark (1), Matthew (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It this desolate place 2× Matthew 15:33, Mark 8:4
[the] country 1× 2 Corinthians 11:26
deserts 1× Hebrews 11:38
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Matthew 15:33
Aligned rows 4
Books represented 4
Matthew 1 Mark 1 2 Corinthians 1 Hebrews 1
Source forms
ἐρημίᾳ 2x erēmia Matthew 15:33, 2 Corinthians 11:26
ἐρημίαις 1x erēmiais Hebrews 11:38
ἐρημίας 1x erēmias Mark 8:4
Parsing patterns
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular 2x Matthew 15:33, 2 Corinthians 11:26
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural 1x Hebrews 11:38
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular 1x Mark 8:4
Evidence Summary
Greek word. An uninhabited desolate place; wilderness as physical location of hardship and spiritual testing.
Strong's G2047
Lexical occurrences 4 verses Greek text appearances 4 times Word forms 3 forms 4 references Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
solitude (concretely)
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
An uninhabited desolate place; wilderness as physical location of hardship and spiritual testing.
(ἔρημος), [in LXX: Isa.60:20, Eze.35:4 (חָרַב, חׇרְבָּה), Eze.35:9 (שְׁמָמָה), Wis.17:17, Sir.47:17, Bar.4:33, 4Ma.18:8 * ;] a solitude, wilderness: Mat.15:33, Mrk.8:4, 2Co.11:26, Heb.11:38.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
4 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Matthew 15:33 Noun Dative Singular Feminine
ἐρημίᾳ erhmia
a desert place
Read verse Mark 8:4 Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
ἐρημίας; erhmiav
a desert place
Read verse 2 Corinthians 11:26 Noun Dative Singular Feminine
ἐρημίᾳ, erhmia
a desert place
Read verse Hebrews 11:38 Noun Dative Plural Feminine
ἐρημίαις erhmiaiv
a desert place
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 3 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 3 Aligned forms 4 Case pattern Dative (3) Number pattern Singular (3)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Genitive · Singular · Feminine Mark 8:4 1×
Dative · Singular · Feminine Matt 15:33 · 2 Cor 11:26 2×
Dative · Plural · Feminine Heb 11:38 1×
Word Origins
ἐρημία is built from this root:
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain