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Koine Greek wordlink #45594

SR GNT Luke 8:29 ἐρήμους (eraʸmous) ‘demon into the wildernesss’ Strongs=20480 Lemma=erēmos
Word role=substantive adjective case=accusative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=31 AD TimeSeries=Gadarene_Demoniacs

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Only use of identical word form ἐρήμους (S-AFP) in the Greek originals

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

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

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 (3) other than ἐρήμους (S-AFP) with a gloss related to ‘wildernesss’

LUKE 1:80 ἐρημοῖς (eraʸmois) S-DFP ‘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 ‘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)

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