Quick Definition
I destroy, strip, rob
Strong's Definition
to lay waste (literally or figuratively)
Derivation: from G2048 (ἔρημος);
KJV Usage: (bring to, make) desolate(-ion), come to nought
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐρημόω, ἐρήμῳ: passive (present 3 person singular (cf. Buttmann, 38 (33)) ἐρημοῦται); perfect participle ἠρημωμενος; 1 aorist ἐρημωθην; (ἔρημος); from Herodotus down; the Sept. usually for ηΘψΕα, δΖηΑψΔια, ωΘΡξΕν; to make desolate, lay waste; in the N. T. only in the passive: πόλιν, Rev_18:19; to ruin, bring to desolation: βασιλείαν, Mat_12:25; Luk_11:17; to reduce to naught: πλοῦτον, Rev_18:17 (16); ἠρημωμένην καί γυμνήν ποιεῖν τινα, to despoil one, strip her of her treasures, Rev_17:16.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐρημόω erēmoō 5x
to lay waste, make desolate, bring to ruin, Mat_12:25 ; Luk_11:17 ; Rev_17:16 ; Rev_18:17 ; Rev_18:19
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἐρημόω , -ῶ
( < ἔρημος ),
[in LXX for H2717 hi ., H8074 ni ., etc.;]
to desolate, lay waste: Mat_12:25 , Luk_11:17 , Rev_17:16 ; Rev_18:16 ; Rev_18:19 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐρημόω [page 254]
For the use of this verb in Rev_18:19 , Boll ( Offenbarung , p. 133) cites from Hellenistic astrology Catal. VII. 170, 16 and 21, ναοὶ (μεγάλοι ) ἐρημωθήσονται , 171, 14 ναὸς μέγας ἐρημωθήσεται . See also OGIS 519 .32 ( c. A.D. 245) συνέβη . . . τὰ χωρία ἐρημοῦσθαι . The noun (as in Mat_24:15 ) survives in the MGr ἐρήμωσι , isolation.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἐρημόω ἐρημόω, φυτ. -ώσω [Etym: ἔρημος] "to strip bare, to desolate, lay waste", ἱερά Thuc. :—Pass., Hdt. , etc. "to bereave" one "of" a thing, c. gen., ἐρ. ναυβατῶν ἐρετμά "to leave" the oars "without" men, Eur. :—Pass. "to be bereft of", c. gen., Hdt. , Aesch. "to set free or deliver from", c. gen., Eur. "to abandon, desert", c. acc., Aesch. , Eur. ; ἐρ. Συρακούσας "to evacuate" it, Thuc. "to keep in solitude, isolate", Eur. : —Pass. "to be isolated from", c. gen., Hdt.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἐρημόω, -ῶ
(ἔρημος), [in LXX for חָרַב hi., שָׁמֵם ni., etc. ;]
to desolate, lay waste: Mat.12:25, Luk.11:17, Rev.17:16 18:16, 19.†
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