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Koine Greek wordlink #38617

SR GNT Luke 1:80 ἐρημοῖς (eraʸmois) ‘was in the wildernesss until the day of appearance’ Strongs=20480 Lemma=erēmos
Word role=substantive adjective case=dative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=-5 TimeSeries=Birth_of_John_the_Baptist

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Other uses (1) of identical word form ἐρημοῖς (S-DFP) in the Greek originals

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

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

Luke 5:16 ‘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)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘erēmos’ have 6 different glosses: ‘a desolate’, ‘a wilderness’, ‘the wilderness road’, ‘desolate’, ‘wilderness’, ‘wildernesss’.

Greek words (2) other than ἐρημοῖς (S-DFP) with a gloss related to ‘wildernesss’

LUKE 8:29 ἐρήμους (eraʸmous) S-AFP ‘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)

HEB 11:38 ἐρημίαις (eraʸmiais) N-DFP Lemma=erēmia ‘the world in wildernesss being strayed and mountains’ SR GNT Heb 11:38 word 9

OET-LV: 38 of _whom not was worthy the world, in wildernesss being _strayed, and mountains, and caves, and the holes of _the earth. (HEB_11:38)

OET-RV: 38 This world wasn’t worthy of having them. They wandered around wilderness areas and on hills and lived in caves and in holes in the ground. (HEB 11:38)

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