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Lexicon :: Strong's H4057 - miḏbār

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מִדְבָּר
Transliteration
miḏbār
Pronunciation
mid-bawr'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From דָּבַר (H1696) in the sense of driving
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 399k,399L

Strong’s Definitions

מִדְבָּר midbâr, mid-bawr'; from H1696 in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs):—desert, south, speech, wilderness.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 271x

The KJV translates Strong's H4057 in the following manner: wilderness (255x), desert (13x), south (1x), speech (1x), wilderness (with H776) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 271x
The KJV translates Strong's H4057 in the following manner: wilderness (255x), desert (13x), south (1x), speech (1x), wilderness (with H776) (1x).

  1. wilderness

    1. pasture

    2. uninhabited land, wilderness

    3. large tracts of wilderness (around cities)

    4. wilderness (fig.)

  2. mouth

    1. mouth (as organ of speech)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִדְבָּר midbâr, mid-bawr'; from H1696 in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs):—desert, south, speech, wilderness.
STRONGS H4057: Abbreviations
† I. [מִדְבָּר] noun masculine mouth, as organ of speech, — מִדְבָּרֵךְ נָאוֶה thy mouth is lovely Songs 4:3 || שִׁפְתוֺתַיִךְ, Greek Version of the LXX λαλιά, Jerome eloquium.

II. מִדְבָּר 270 noun masculine wilderness — Deuteronomy 32:10 +; with ה locative מִדְבָּ֫רָה Joshua 18:12 15 times; construct Exodus 15:22 +; מִדְבַּ֫רָה 1 Kings 19:15; suffix מִדְבָּרָהּ Isaiah 51:3; —
1. tracts of land, used for the pasturage of flocks and herds, דָּֽשְׁאוּ נְאוֺת מִדְבָּר the pastures of the wilderness put forth green grass Joel 2:22; מ׳ יִרְעֲפוּ נ׳ the pastures of the wilderness drop (fertility) Psalm 65:13; מ׳ יָָֽבְשׁוּ נ׳ are dried up Jeremiah 23:10, compare Jeremiah 9:9; Joel 1:19,20.
2. uninhabited land, מִדְבָּר לֹאאָֿדָם בּוֺ wilderness in which is no man Job 38:26; the abode of pelicans Psalm 102:7; wild asses Job 24:5; Jeremiah 2:24; jackals Malachi 1:3; ostriches Lamentations 4:3; מִייִֿתְּנֵנִי בַמִּדְבָּר מְלוֺן אֹרְחִים וְֶֽֽֽאעֶזְבָה אֶתעַֿמִּי O that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfarers, that I might leave my people Jeremiah 9:1; טוֺב שֶׁבֶת בְּאֶרֶץ מִדְבָּר better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious woman Proverbs 21:19; בְּאֶרֶץ מִדְבָּר וּבְתֹהוּ יְלֵל יְשִׁמֹן in a desert land, and in a waste howling wilderness Deuteronomy 32:10.
3. large tracts of such land bearing various names, in certain districts of which there might be towns and cities: יִשְׂאוּ מִדְבָּר וְעָרָיו חֲצֵרִים תֵּשֵׁב קֵדָר let the wilderness and its cities lift up (their voice), the villages that Kedar doth inhabit Isaiah 42:11. There were six cities in the wilderness of Judah Joshua 15:61,62; הַמִּדְבָּר usually = wilderness of the wanderings Genesis 14:6; Numbers 14:16,29,32,33 (twice in verse) +, or the great Arabian desert Judges 11:22 +; but may also refer to any other Songs 3:6; Songs 8:5. Special tracts — (a) of the wilderness of the wandering were שׁוּר מ׳ Exodus 15:22, סין Exodus 16:1 +, סיני Exodus 19:1 +, פארן Numbers 13:26 +, צן Numbers 20:1 +, קדשׁ Psalm 29:8, אתם Numbers 33:8; (b) in West Palestine יהודה מ׳ Judges 1:16; Psalm 63:1 compare Joshua 15:61, מעוֺן 1 Samuel 23:24,25, זיף 1 Samuel 23:15; 1 Samuel 26:2, באר שׁבע Genesis 21:14, עין גדי 1 Samuel 24:2, תקוע 2 Chronicles 20:20, ירואל 2 Chronicles 20:16, גבעון 2 Samuel 2:24; (c) in Eastern Palestine מואב Deuteronomy 2:8, אדום 2 Kings 3:8, קדמות Deuteronomy 2:26.
4. figurative וְשַׂמְתִּיהָ כַמִּדְבָּר וְשַׁתִּהָ כְּאֶרֶץ צִיָּה and (lest I) make her as a wilderness and set her like a dry land Hosea 2:5; הֲמִדְבָּר הָיִיתִי לְיִשְׂרָאֵל have I been a wilderness to Israel ? Jeremiah 2:31.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

14:6; 21:14

Exodus

15:22; 15:22; 16:1; 19:1

Numbers

13:26; 14:16; 14:29; 14:32; 14:33; 20:1; 33:8

Deuteronomy

2:8; 2:26; 32:10; 32:10

Joshua

15:61; 15:61; 15:62; 18:12

Judges

1:16; 11:22

1 Samuel

23:15; 23:24; 23:25; 24:2; 26:2

2 Samuel

2:24

1 Kings

19:15

2 Kings

3:8

2 Chronicles

20:16; 20:20

Job

24:5; 38:26

Psalms

29:8; 63:1; 65:13; 102:7

Proverbs

21:19

Song of Songs

3:6; 4:3; 8:5

Isaiah

42:11; 51:3

Jeremiah

2:24; 2:31; 9:1; 9:9; 23:10

Lamentations

4:3

Hosea

2:5

Joel

1:19; 1:20; 2:22

Malachi

1:3

H4057

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Strong's Number H4057 matches the Hebrew מִדְבָּר (miḏbār),
which occurs 271 times in 257 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 6 (Gen 14:6–Num 14:16)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:6 - and the Horites in their mountain of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is by the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:7 - Now the Angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water; and putting it on her shoulder, he gave it and the boy to Hagar, and sent her away. Then she departed and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:20 - So God was with the lad; and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:21 - He dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:24 - These were the sons of Zibeon: both Ajah and Anah. This was the Anah who found the water[fn] in the wilderness as he pastured the donkeys of his father Zibeon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:22 - And Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hands, and bring him back to his father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:1 - Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:18 - “Then they will heed your voice; and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt; and you shall say to him, ‘The LORD God of the Hebrews has met with us; and now, please, let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:27 - And the LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he went and met him on the mountain of God, and kissed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:1 - Afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:3 - So they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please, let us go three days’ journey into the desert and sacrifice to the LORD our God, lest He fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:16 - “And you shall say to him, ‘The LORD God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness”; but indeed, until now you would not hear!

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:27 - “We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He will command us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:28 - So Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away. Intercede for me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18 - So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:20 - So they took their journey from Succoth and camped in Etham at the edge of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:3 - “For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are bewildered by the land; the wilderness has closed them in.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:11 - Then they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt?

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:12 - “Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22 - So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea; then they went out into the Wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:1 - And they journeyed from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they departed from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:2 - Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:3 - And the children of Israel said to them, “Oh, that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:10 - Now it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:14 - And when the layer of dew lifted, there, on the surface of the wilderness, was a small round substance, as fine as frost on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:32 - Then Moses said, “This is the thing which the LORD has commanded: ‘Fill an omer with it, to be kept for your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:1 - Then all the congregation of the children of Israel set out on their journey from the Wilderness of Sin, according to the commandment of the LORD, and camped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:5 - and Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness, where he was encamped at the mountain of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:1 - In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on the same day, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:2 - For they had departed from Rephidim, had come to the Wilderness of Sinai, and camped in the wilderness. So Israel camped there before the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - “And I will set your bounds from the Red Sea to the sea, Philistia, and from the desert to the River.[fn] For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 7:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:38 - which the LORD commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day when He commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:10 - “But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make atonement upon it, and to let it go as the scapegoat into the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:21 - “Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, concerning all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a suitable man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:22 - “The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to an uninhabited land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:1 - Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:19 - As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:4 - Nadab and Abihu had died before the LORD when they offered profane fire before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai; and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priests in the presence of Aaron their father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:14 - Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:1 - Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, at twilight, in the Wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:12 - And the children of Israel set out from the Wilderness of Sinai on their journeys; then the cloud settled down in the Wilderness of Paran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:31 - So Moses said, “Please do not leave, inasmuch as you know how we are to camp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:16 - And afterward the people moved from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:3 - So Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran according to the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:21 - So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:26 - Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:2 - And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:16 - ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring this people to the land which He swore to give them, therefore He killed them in the wilderness.’

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