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Strong's #2049 - ἐρημόω
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- to make desolate, lay waste
- to ruin, bring to desolation
- to despoil one, strip her of her treasures
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ἐρημ-όω,
I strip bare, desolate, lay waste, ἱερὰ θεῶν Th. 3.58; τὴν χώραν And. 3.21; πλοῦτον LXX Si. 21.4; ὁ κτίζων καὶ ἐρημῶν θεός POsl. 1.105: — Pass., ἐρημωθείσης Κρήτης Hdt. 7.171; πόλεις ἠρημώθησαν Th. 1.23; μιᾷ ὥρᾳ ἠρημώθη ὁ τοσοῦτος πλοῦτος Revelation 18:17.
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1. bereave one of a thing, c. dupl. acc., ἐ. τινὰ εὐφροσύνας μέρος Pi. P. 3.97: c. acc. et gen., ἀνδρῶν ἐ. ἑστίαν Id. I. 4(3).17; ἐ. ναυβατῶν ἐρετμά to leave the oars without men, E. Hel. 1609; ἑαυτὸν ἐρημοῖς (sc. φίλων) Pl. Alc. 39: — Pass., to be bereft of, ἀνδρῶν Hdt. 1.164; συμμάχων Id. 7.174; Μίλητος Μιλησίων ἠρήμωτο Id. 6.22; ἄρσενος θρόνου A. Ag. 260; πατρός E. Andr. 805; τὰ ἐρημούμενα φυλακῆς left without, X. Eq. Mag. 4.18.
2. set free, deliver from, Διὸς ἄλσος ἠρήμωσε λέοντος E. HF 360 (lyr.); Ἀσίαν Περσικῶν ὅπλων Plu. Cim. 12: — Pass., πνεῦμα ὀσμῶν ἐρημωθέν being free from.., Pl. Ti. 66e.
III abandon, desert, ἑὸν χῶρον Pi. P. 4.269; τάξιν ἠρήμου θανών A. Pers. 298, cf. E. Andr. 314, Pl. Lg. 865e; ἐ. Συρακούσας to evacuate it, Th. 5.4; τόνδ' ἐρημώσασ' ὄχον having left it empty, by stepping out of it, A. Ag. 1070: — Pass., [πόλιν] ἐρημοῦσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν πατρικίων D.H. 11.9. leave alone, keep isolated, A. Supp. 516, E. Med. 90: — Pass., ὄνοι ἐρημωθέντες τοῦ ὁμίλου being isolated from.., Hdt. 4.135.
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 חָרֵב, הֶחֱרִיב, שָׁמֵם; to make desolate, lay waste; in the N. T. only in the passive: πόλιν, Revelation 18:19; to ruin, bring to desolation: βασιλείαν, Matthew 12:25; Luke 11:17; to reduce to naught: πλοῦτον, Revelation 18:17 (16); ἠρημωμένην καί γυμνήν ποιεῖν τινα, to despoil one, strip her of her treasures, Revelation 17:16.
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For the use of this verb in Revelation 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 Matthew 24:15) survives in the MGr ἐρήμωσι, ";isolation.";
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