Eremos describes wilderness or isolated settings and, less often, a place, house, or woman marked by desolation.

The term most often marks a wilderness or isolated setting: people travel, remain, pray, are tested, or seek food there. More rarely it describes a place or house as left desolate, and once characterizes a woman in contrast to one who has a husband.

1. Wilderness or isolated setting · dominant

   The forms occur in clauses locating people outside populated places: in Mark 1:13 the APB renders Jesus as being in the wilderness for forty days, while Mark 6:31 renders an invitation to withdraw to a deserted place. In Luke 5:16 the plural form occurs where Jesus repeatedly withdraws and prays, and John 11:54 places his stay in country near the wilderness.

   Mark 1:13Mark 6:31Luke 5:16John 11:54Matthew 3:1Revelation 12:6
2. A place or house left desolate · occasional

   In Acts 1:20 the nominative feminine form occurs in the request that a person's place become deserted and have no resident. In Matthew 23:38 the nominative masculine form stands in the declaration that a house is left desolate.

   Acts 1:20Matthew 23:38
3. Desolate woman · rare

   In Galatians 4:27 the genitive feminine form occurs in the contrast between the children of the desolate woman and those of the woman who has a husband; the APB presents the woman as not giving birth and not in labor.

   Galatians 4:27

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly renders the setting as "wilderness" or "deserted place," while it uses "desolate" for the house in Matthew 23:38 and the woman in Galatians 4:27. These renderings indicate the clauses' presentation rather than a fixed English equivalent.