Word Summary
erēmoō: to desolate
Original Word: ἐρημόωTransliteration: erēmoō
Phonetic Spelling: (er-ay-mo'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to desolate
Meaning: to desolate
Strong's Concordance
make desolate, come to nothing.
From eremos; to lay waste (literally or figuratively) -- (bring to, make) desolate(-ion), come to nought.
see GREEK eremos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2049: ἐρημόωἐρημόω,
ἐρήμῳ: passive (present 3 person singular (cf.
Buttmann, 38 (33))
ἐρημοῦται); perfect participle
ἠρημωμενος; 1 aorist
ἐρημωθην; (
ἔρημος); from
Herodotus down; the
Sept. usually for
חָרֵב,
הֶחֱרִיב,
שָׁמֵם;
to make desolate, lay waste; in the N. T. only in the passive:
πόλιν,
Revelation 18:19; to ruin, bring to desolation:
βασιλείαν,
Matthew 12:25;
Luke 11:17; to reduce to naught:
πλοῦτον,
Revelation 18:17 (16);
ἠρημωμένην καί γυμνήν ποιεῖν τινα, to despoil one, strip her of her treasures,
Revelation 17:16.