Words the Bible translates as desolate
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- erēmosἔρημοςdeserted: empty of people, whether a wild stretch of country, a quiet out-of-the-way spot, or a place or person left forsaken.
- shamemשָׁמֵםto be devastated and empty: of places laid waste and of persons struck silent with horror
- natsahנָצָהto fight: to be locked against another party in an open struggle, most often two people coming to blows
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- to be left in ruins: of a city or a countryside, knocked into heaps of rubble and emptied of people
- ḥarevחָרֵבdesolate: emptied out and left in ruins, said of a city, a countryside, or a building
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- dry: food that has had no oil or moisture added to it
- galmudגַּלְמוּדbarren: hard and bare, and so yielding nothing at all
- monoōμονόωto leave someone entirely alone: to strip a person of the family and support they lived on, so that no one is left to depend on
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