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Strong's #2047 - ἐρημία
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- a solitude, an uninhabited region, a waste
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ἐρημ-ία, ἡ,
I of places, a solitude, desert, wilderness, Hdt. 3.98, A Proverbs 2:1-22, etc.; ἡ Σκυθῶν ἐ. Ar. Ach. 704; ἀφίκετ' εἰς ἐ. Id. Lys. 787; ἕρπει εἰς τὰς ἐρημίας to solitary places, Arist. HA 610b24, etc.
II as a state or condition, solitude, loneliness, ἐρημίαν ἄγειν, to keep alone, E. Med. 50; μονάδ' ἔχουσ' ἐ. Id. Ba. 609 (troch.); ἐρημίας τυχών Id. El. 510; ἐν ἐρημίᾳ ἐλοιδοροῦντο Antipho 2.1.4;
1. of persons, isolation, destitution, S. OC 957, Lys. 18.25; πολλὴν ἡμῶν ἐ. καταγνόντες Isaiah 1:2; δι' ἐρημίαν from being left alone, Th. 1.71, cf. 3.67; ἐρημίας ἐπειλημμένοι D. 3.27; εὑρετικὸν εἶναί φασι τὴν ἐ. Men. 39. of places, desolation, ἐρημίᾳ δοῦναί τι E. Tr. 97; ἐρημία..πόλιν ὅταν λάβῃ ib. 26; ἀτριβὴς ὑπ' ἐρημίας Th. 4.8.
2. c. gen., want of, absence, φίλων X. Mem. 2.2.14; ἀρσένων, βροτῶν, ἀνδρῶν, E. Hec. 1017, Ba. 875 (lyr., pl.), Th. 6.102; λύχνων Ar. Av. 1484 (lyr.), etc.; δι' ἐρημίας πολεμίων πορευόμενος without finding any enemy, X. HG 3.4.21; τὴν ἐ. τῶν κωλυσόντων ὁρῶν seeing that there would be none to hinder him, D. 4.49; ἐ. σώματος, = κενόν, Zeno Stoic. 1.26; even ἐ. κακῶν freedom from evil, E. HF 1157.
ἐρημία, ἐρημίας, ἡ (ἔρημος), a solitude, an uninhabited region, a waste: Matthew 15:33; Mark 8:4; Hebrews 11:38; opposed to πόλις, 2 Corinthians 11:26, as in Josephus, Antiquities 2, 3, 1.
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ἐρημία , -ας , ἡ
(<ἔρημος ),
[in LXX: Isaiah 60:20, Ezekiel 35:4 (H2717, H2723), Ezekiel 35:9 (H8077), Wisdom of Solomon 17:17, Sirach 47:17, Baruch 4:33, 4 Maccabees 18:8*;]
a solitude, wilderness: Matthew 15:33, Mark 8:4, 2 Corinthians 11:26, Hebrews 11:38.†
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BGU III. 888.15 (A.D. 160) ἐν ἐκτελ [ . . ] . με ̣ν ̣ῃ τ ̣α ̣ξ ̣ε ̣ι ̣ αἰρημίᾳ (l. ἐρ —), P Thead 16.17 (after A.D. 307) περὶ τῆς ἐρη [μί ]ας τῆς κώμης, and the schoolboy’s exercise containing the tale of a parricide who, to escape justice, fled into the desert, P Grenf II. 84.4 (v/vi A.D.) υἱὸς τὸν εἴδιον πατέραν φωνεύσας καὶ τοὺς νομοὺς φοβηθεὶς ἔφυγεν εἰς ἐρημίαν. The word is MGr.
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