ἐκἐρημόω
lay waste, desolate
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐκἐρημόω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 18 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Leviticus 26:31 ἐκἐρημόω And I will lay your cities waste, and I will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell the savor of your sacrifices.
- Leviticus 26:32 ἐκἐρημόω And I will lay your land desolate, and your enemies who dwell in it shall wonder at it.
- 2 Kings 19:24 ἐκἐρημόω I have refreshed myself, and have drunk strange waters, and I have dried up with the sole of my foot all the rivers of fortified places.
- Isaiah 37:26 ἐκἐρημόω Have you not heard of these things which I did of old? I appointed them from ancient times; but now have I manifested my purpose of desolating nations in their strong holds, and them that dwell in strong cities.
- Isaiah 50:2 ἐκἐρημόω Why did I come, and there was no man? why did I call, and there was none to listen? Is not my hand strong to redeem? or can I not deliver? behold, by my rebuke I will dry up the sea, and make rivers a wilderness; and their fish shall be dried up because there is no water, and shall die for thirst.
- Isaiah 61:4 ἐκἐρημόω And they shall build the old waste places, they shall raise up those that were before made desolate, and shall renew the desert cities, even those that had been desolate for many generations.
- Isaiah 61:4 ἐκἐρημόω And they shall build the old waste places, they shall raise up those that were before made desolate, and shall renew the desert cities, even those that had been desolate for many generations.
- Jeremiah 25:9 ἐκἐρημόω behold I will send and take a family from the north, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all the nations round about it, and I will make them utterly waste, and make them a desolation, and a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.
- Ezekiel 6:6 ἐκἐρημόω and in all your habitations: the cities shall be made desolate, and the high places utterly laid waste; that your altars may be destroyed, and your idols be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats be abolished.
- Ezekiel 12:20 ἐκἐρημόω And their inhabited cities shall be laid utterly waste, and the land shall be desolate; and you⌃ shall know that I am the Lord.
- Ezekiel 19:7 ἐκἐρημόω And he prowled in his boldness and laid waste their cities, and made the land desolate, and the fullness of it, by the voice of his roaring.
- Ezekiel 36:4 ἐκἐρημόω therefore, you⌃ mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; Thus says the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the streams, and to the valleys, and to the places that have been made desolate and destroyed, and to the cities that have been deserted, and have become a spoil and a trampling to the nations that were left round about;
- Daniel 4:15 ἐκἐρημόω This is the vision which I king Nabuchodonosor saw: and do you, Baltasar, declare the interpretation, for none of the wise men of my kingdom are able to show me the interpretation of it: but you, Daniel, are able; for the Holy Spirit of God is in you.
- Hosea 13:15 ἐκἐρημόω Forasmuch as he will cause a division among his brethren, the Lord shall bring upon him an east wind from the desert, and shall dry up his veins and quite drain his fountains: he shall dry up his land, and spoil all his precious vessels.
- Amos 7:9 ἐκἐρημόω And the joyful altars shall be abolished, and the sacrifices of Israel shall be set aside; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
- Nahum 1:4 ἐκἐρημόω He threatens the sea, and dries it up, and exhausts all the rivers: the land of Basan, and Carmel are brought low, and the flourishing trees of Libanus have come to nothing.
- Zephaniah 3:6 ἐκἐρημόω I have brought down the proud with destruction; their corners are destroyed: I will make their ways completely waste, so that none shall go through: their cities are come to an end, by reason of no man living or dwelling in them.
- Haggai 1:4 ἐκἐρημόω Is it time for you to dwell in your ceiled houses, whereas our house is desolate?
About this word
About this word
ἐκἐρημόω (ekerēmóō), “lay waste, desolate,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 18 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →