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Koine Greek wordlink #145444

SR GNT Heb 11:38 ἐρημίαις (eraʸmiais) ‘the world in wildernesss being strayed and mountains’ Strongs=20470 Lemma=erēmia
Word role=noun case=dative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=64 AD

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Only use of identical word form ἐρημίαις (N-DFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐρημίαις’ (N-DFP) is always and only glossed as ‘wildernesss’.

(In the VLT, the word form ‘ἐρημίαις’ (N-DFP) was always and only glossed as ‘deserts’).

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘erēmia’ have 4 different glosses: ‘a wilderness’, ‘the wilderness’, ‘wilderness’, ‘wildernesss’.

Greek words (3) other than ἐρημίαις (N-DFP) with a gloss related to ‘wildernesss’

LUKE 1:80 ἐρημοῖς (eraʸmois) S-DFP Lemma=erēmos ‘was in the wildernesss until the day of appearance’ SR GNT Luke 1:80 word 12

OET-LV: 80 And the little _child was _growing and was _being _strengthened in _spirit, and was in the wildernesss until the_day of _appearance of _him to the Israaʸl/(Yisrā^ʼēl). (LUK_1:80)

OET-RV: 80 The young boy grew and his spirit was also strengthened, and he lived in the wilderness until he started his ministry to the people of Yisrael. (LUK 1:80)

LUKE 5:16 ἐρημοῖς (eraʸmois) S-DFP Lemma=erēmos ‘withdrawing in the wildernesss and praying’ SR GNT Luke 5:16 word 7

OET-LV: 16 But he was withdrawing in the wildernesss and praying. (LUK_5:16)

OET-RV: 16 but then he would regularly withdraw into the wilderness to pray. (LUK 5:16)

LUKE 8:29 ἐρήμους (eraʸmous) S-AFP Lemma=erēmos ‘demon into the wildernesss’ SR GNT Luke 8:29 word 46

OET-LV: 29 for/because He _commanded to _the the spirit unclean to _come _out from the man. For/Because for/because _many times it _had _seized him, and he _was _being _bound with _chains and being _guarded in _shackles, and tearing the bonds, he _was _being _driven by the demon into the wildernesss. (LUK_8:29)

OET-RV: 29 He said this because Yeshua had commanded the evil spirit to come out from the man. The demon had animated him many times and he’d needed to be put in chains and shackles, but he would break them off and the demon would drive him into the wilderness. (LUK 8:29)

Key: N=noun S=substantive adjective AFP=accusative,feminine,plural DFP=dative,feminine,plural