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Adjective erēmos (wilderness, deserted place) in the New Testament
(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Matthew
| 3: 1 | In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness (erēmos) of Judea, proclaiming, |
| 3: 3 | This is the one of whom the prophet Isaiah spoke when he said, "The voice of one crying out in the wilderness (erēmos): 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.'" |
| 4: 1 | Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness (erēmos) to be tempted by the devil. |
| 11: 7 | As they went away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the wilderness (erēmos) to look at? A reed shaken by the wind? |
| 14: 13 | Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place (erēmos) by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. |
| 14: 15 | When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, "This is a deserted place (erēmos), and the hour is now late; send the crowds away so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves." |
| 23: 38 | See, your house is left to you, as a deserted place (erēmos). |
| 24: 26 | So, if they say to you, 'Look! He is in the wilderness (erēmos),' do not go out. If they say, 'Look! He is in the inner rooms,' do not believe it. |
Mark
| 1: 3 | the voice of one crying out in the wilderness (erēmos): 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,'" |
| 1: 4 | John the baptizer appeared in the wilderness (erēmos), proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. |
| 1: 12 | And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness (erēmos). |
| 1: 13 | He was in the wilderness (erēmos) forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels waited on him. Proclaiming and manifesting the kingdom of God as the renewal of Israel, over against the Jerusalem priestly rulers; Jesus' opening proclamation of the kingdom of God |
| 1: 35 | In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place (erēmos), and there he prayed. |
| 1: 45 | But he went out and began to proclaim it freely, and to spread the word, so that Jesus could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in a deserted place (erēmos); and people came to him from every quarter. |
| 6: 31 | He said to them, "Come away to a deserted place (erēmos) all by yourselves and rest a while." For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. |
| 6: 32 | And they went away in the boat to a deserted place (erēmos) by themselves. |
| 6: 35 | When it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, "This is a deserted place (erēmos), and the hour is now very late; |
Luke
| 1: 80 | The child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness (erēmos) until the day he appeared publicly to Israel. |
| 3: 2 | during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness (erēmos). |
| 3: 4 | as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, "The voice of one crying out in the wilderness (erēmos): 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. |
| 4: 1 | Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness (erēmos), |
| 4: 42 | At daybreak he departed and went into a deserted place (erēmos). And the crowds were looking for him; and when they reached him, they wanted to prevent him from leaving them. |
| 5: 16 | But he would withdraw to deserted places (erēmos) and pray. |
| 7: 24 | When John's messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the wilderness (erēmos) to look at? A reed shaken by the wind? |
| 8: 29 | for Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many times it had seized him; he was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into the wilderness (erēmos).) |
| 9: 12 | The day was drawing to a close, and the twelve came to him and said, "Send the crowd away, so that they may go into the surrounding villages and countryside, to lodge and get provisions; for we are here in a deserted place (erēmos)." |
| 15: 4 | "Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness (erēmos) and go after the one that is lost until he finds it? |
John
| 1: 23 | He said, "I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness (erēmos), 'Make straight the way of the Lord,'" as the prophet Isaiah said. |
| 3: 14 | And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness (erēmos), so must the Son of Man be lifted up, |
| 6: 31 | Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness (erēmos); as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'" |
| 6: 49 | Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness (erēmos), and they died. |
| 11: 54 | Jesus therefore no longer walked about openly among the Jews, but went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness (erēmos); and he remained there with the disciples. |
Acts
| 1: 20 | "For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'Let his homestead become a deserted place (erēmos), and let there be no one to live in it'; and 'Let another take his position of overseer.' |
| 7: 30 | "Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness (erēmos) of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush. |
| 7: 36 | He led them out, having performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness (erēmos) for forty years. |
| 7: 38 | He is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness (erēmos) with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors; and he received living oracles to give to us. |
| 7: 42 | But God turned away from them and handed them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'Did you offer to me slain victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness (erēmos), O house of Israel? |
| 7: 44 | "Our ancestors had the tent of testimony in the wilderness (erēmos), as God directed when he spoke to Moses, ordering him to make it according to the pattern he had seen. |
| 8: 26 | Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Get up and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." (This is a wilderness (erēmos) road.) |
| 13: 18 | For about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness (erēmos). |
| 21: 38 | Then you are not the Egyptian who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand assassins out into the wilderness (erēmos)?" |
1 Corinthians
| 10: 5 | Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness (erēmos). |
Galatians
| 4: 27 | For it is written, "Rejoice, you childless one, you who bear no children, burst into song and shout, you who endure no birth pangs; for the children of the deserted (erēmos) (woman) are more numerous than the children of the one who is married." |
Hebrews
| 3: 8 | do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, as on the day of testing in the wilderness (erēmos), |
| 3: 17 | But with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness (erēmos)? |
Revelation
| 12: 6 | and the woman fled into the wilderness (erēmos), where she has a place prepared by God, so that there she can be nourished for one thousand two hundred sixty days. |
| 12: 14 | But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she could fly from the serpent into the wilderness (erēmos), to her place where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time. |
| 17: 3 | So he carried me away in the spirit into a wilderness (erēmos), and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. |
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