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Lexicon :: Strong's H4057 - miḏbār

Aa
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.
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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

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:6 - And the Horites in their mountain Seir, driving them as far as El-paran, which is near the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:7 - And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:20 - And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he became a bowman, living in the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:21 - And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:24 - And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; that same Anah who made the discovery of the water-springs in the waste land, when he was looking after the asses of his father Zibeon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:22 - Do not put him to a violent death, but let him be placed in one of the holes; this he said to keep him safe from their hands, with the purpose of taking him back to his father again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:1 - Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he took the flock to the back of the waste land and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:18 - And they will give ear to your voice: and you, with the chiefs of Israel, will go to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:27 - And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the waste land and you will see Moses. So he went and came across Moses at the mountain of God, and gave him a kiss.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:1 - And after that, Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and said, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, Let my people go so that they may keep a feast to me in the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:3 - And they said, The God of the Hebrews has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God, so that he may not send death on us by disease or the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:16 - And say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, Let my people go so that they may give me worship in the waste land; but up to now you have not given ear to his words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:27 - But we will go three days' journey into the waste land and make an offering to the Lord our God as he may give us orders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:28 - Then Pharaoh said, I will let you go to make an offering to the Lord your God in the waste land; but do not go very far away, and make prayer for me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18 - But God took the people round by the waste land near the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up in fighting order out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:20 - Then they went on their journey from Succoth, and put up their tents in Etham at the edge of the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:3 - And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are wandering without direction, they are shut in by the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:11 - And they said to Moses, Was there no resting-place for the dead in Egypt, that you have taken us away to come to our death in the waste land? why have you taken us out of Egypt?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:12 - Did we not say to you in Egypt, Let us be as we are, working for the Egyptians? for it is better to be the servants of the Egyptians than to come to our death in the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22 - Then Moses took Israel forward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the waste land of Shur; and for three days they were in the waste land where there was no water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:1 - And they went on their way from Elim, and all the children of Israel came into the waste land of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they went out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:2 - And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:3 - And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:10 - And while Aaron was talking to the children of Israel, their eyes were turned in the direction of the waste land, and they saw the glory of the Lord shining in the cloud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:14 - And when the dew was gone, on the face of the earth was a small round thing, like small drops of ice on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:32 - And Moses said, This is the order which the Lord has given: Let one omer of it be kept for future generations, so that they may see the bread which I gave you for your food in the waste land, when I took you out from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:1 - And the children of Israel went on from the waste land of Sin, by stages as the Lord gave them orders, and put up their tents in Rephidim: and there was no drinking-water for the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:5 - And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to where Moses had put up his tent in the waste land, by the mountain of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:1 - In the third month after the children of Israel went out from Egypt, on the same day, they came into the waste land of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:2 - And when they had gone away from Rephidim and had come into the waste land of Sinai, they put up their tents in the waste land before the mountain: there Israel put up its tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:38 - As they were given by the Lord to Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day when the Lord gave orders to the children of Israel to make their offerings to the Lord, in the waste land of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:10 - But the goat for Azazel is to be placed living before the Lord, for the taking away of sin, that it may be sent away for Azazel into the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:21 - And Aaron, placing his two hands on the head of the living goat, will make a public statement over him of all the evil doings of the children of Israel and all their wrongdoing, in all their sins; and he will put them on the head of the goat and send him away, in the care of a man who will be waiting there, into the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:22 - And the goat will take all their sins into a land cut off from men, and he will send the goat away into the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:1 - And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai, in the Tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:19 - As the Lord had given orders to Moses, so they were numbered by him in the waste place of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:4 - And Nadab and Abihu were put to death before the Lord when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord, in the waste land of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests before Aaron their father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:14 - And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:1 - And the Lord said to Moses, in the waste land of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - So they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the waste land of Sinai: as the Lord gave orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:12 - And the children of Israel went on their journey out of the waste land of Sinai; and the cloud came to rest in the waste land of Paran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:31 - And he said, Do not go from us; for you will be eyes for us, guiding us to the right places in the waste land to put up our tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:16 - After that, the people went on from Hazeroth and put up their tents in the waste land of Paran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:3 - And Moses sent them from the waste land of Paran as the Lord gave orders, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:21 - So they went up and got a view of the land, from the waste land of Zin to Rehob, on the way to Hamath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:26 - And they came back to Moses and Aaron and all the children of Israel, to Kadesh in the waste land of Paran; and gave an account to them and to all the people and let them see the produce of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:2 - And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:16 - Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.

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