Quick Definition
a desert place
Strong's Definition
solitude (concretely)
Derivation: from G2048 (ἔρημος);
KJV Usage: desert, wilderness
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐρημία, ἐρημίας, ἡ (ἔρημος), a solitude, an uninhabited region, a waste: Mat_15:33; Mar_8:4; Heb_11:38; opposed to πόλις, 2Co_11:26, as in Josephus, Antiquities 2, 3, 1.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐρημία erēmia 4x
a solitude, uninhabited region, waste, desert, Mat_15:33 ; Mar_8:4 ; 2Co_11:26 ; Heb_11:38
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἐρημία , -ας , ἡ
( <ἔρημος ),
[in LXX : Isa_60:20 , Eze_35:4 ( H2717 , H2723 ), Eze_35:9 ( H8077 ), Wis_17:17 , Sir_47:17 , Bar_4:33 , 4Ma_18:8 * ;]
a solitude, wilderness: Mat_15:33 , Mar_8:4 , 2Co_11:26 , Heb_11:38 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐρημία [page 253]
BGU III. 888 .15 (A.D. 160) ἐν ἐκτελ [ . . ] . με̣ν̣ῃ τ̣α̣ξ̣ε̣ι̣ αἰρημίᾳ ( l. ἐρ ), P Thead 16 .17 (after A.D. 307) περὶ τῆς ἐρη [μί ]ας τῆς κώμης , and the schoolboy s exercise containing the tale of a parricide who, to escape justice, fled into the desert, P Grenf II. 84 .4 (v/vi A.D.) υἱὸς τὸν εἴδιον πατέραν φωνεύσας καὶ τοὺς νομοὺς φοβηθεὶς ἔφυγεν εἰς ἐρημίαν . The word is MGr.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἐρημία ἐρημία, ἡ, of places, "a solitude, desert, wilderness", Hdt. , Aesch. , etc. as a state or condition, "solitude, loneliness", ἐρημίαν ἄγειν, ἔχειν to keep alone, Eur. ; of persons, "isolation, desolation", Soph. ; δι᾽ ἐρημίαν from "being left alone", Thuc. c. gen. "want of, absence", Eur. , Thuc. , etc.; τὴν ἐρ. ὁρῶν τῶν κωλυσόντων seeing that there would be "none" to hinder him, Dem. ; ἐρ. κακῶν "freedom from" evil, Eur.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἐρημία, -ας, ἡ
(ἔρημος), [in LXX: Isa.60:20, Eze.35:4 (חָרַב, חׇרְבָּה), Eze.35:9 (שְׁמָמָה), Wis.17:17, Sir.47:17, Bar.4:33, 4Ma.18:8 * ;]
a solitude, wilderness: Mat.15:33, Mrk.8:4, 2Co.11:26, Heb.11:38.†
(AS)