ἔρημος: Difference between revisions

|txtha=ἔρημον (in classic Greek [[also]] [[ἔρημος]], [[ἐρήμη]], ἔρημον, cf. Winer s Grammar, § 11,1; (Buttmann, 25 (23); on its [[accent]] cf. Chandler §§ 393,394; Winer's Grammar, 52 (51)));<br /><b class="num">1.</b> adjective [[solitary]], [[lonely]], [[desolate]], [[uninhabited]]: of places, R G L), ἡ [[ὁδός]], [[leading]] [[through]] a [[desert]], Sept.), [[see]] [[Γάζα]], [[under]] the [[end]] of persons: "[[deserted]] by others; deprived of the [[aid]] and [[protection]] of others, [[especially]] of friends, acquaintances, [[kindred]]; [[bereft]]"; (so [[often]] by Greek writers of [[every]] [[age]], as [[Aeschylus]] Ag. 862; Pers. 734; [[Aristophanes]] pax 112; [[ἔρημος]] τέ καί [[ὑπό]] πάντων καταλειφθείς, Herodian, 2,12, 12 (7 edition, Bekker); of a [[flock]] [[deserted]] by the [[shepherd]], [[Homer]], Iliad 5,140): [[γυνή]], a [[woman]] neglected by her [[husband]], from whom the [[husband]] withholds [[himself]], L and WH texts [[omit]]); cf. Bleek, Erklär. d. drei ersten Evv. ii., p. 206 (cf. ἡ [[ἔρημος]], [[namely]], [[χώρα]]; the Sept. [[often]] for מִדְבַּר; a [[desert]], [[wilderness]] ([[Herodotus]] 3,102): αἱ ἔρημοι, [[desert]] places, [[lonely]] regions: Winer's Grammar, § 18,1), Winer s RWB [[under]] the [[word]] Wüste; Furrer in Sehenkel [[see]] 680ff; (B. D., [[see]] [[under]] the words, Smith's Bible Dictionary, Desert and Smith's Bible Dictionary, Wilderness (American edition)).