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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 wildernessDeuteronomy 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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Page 5 / 6 (Isa 43:20–Joe 1:20)

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:20 -

“The beasts of the field will glorify Me,

The jackals and the ostriches,

Because I have given waters in the wilderness H4057

And rivers in the wasteland,

To give drink to My chosen people.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:2 -

“Why was there no man when I came?

When I called, why was there none to answer?

Is My hand so short that it cannot ransom?

Or have I no power to deliver?

Behold, I dry up the sea with My rebuke;

I make the rivers a wilderness H4057;

Their fish stink for lack of water

And die of thirst.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3 -

Indeed, Yahweh will comfort Zion;

He will comfort all her waste places.

And her wilderness H4057 He will make like Eden,

And her desert like the garden of Yahweh;

Joy and gladness will be found in her,

Thanksgiving and sound of a melody.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:13 -

Who led them through the depths?

Like the horse in the wilderness H4057, they did not stumble;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10 -

Your holy cities have become a wilderness H4057;

Zion has become a wilderness H4057,

Jerusalem a desolation.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:2 - “Go and call out in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh,

“I remember concerning you the lovingkindness of your youth,

The love of your betrothals,

Your walking after Me in the wilderness H4057,

Through a land not sown.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6 -

“They did not say, ‘Where is Yahweh

Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,

Who led us through the wilderness H4057,

Through a land of deserts and of pits,

Through a land of drought and of the shadow of death,

Through a land that no one crossed

And where no man inhabited?’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:24 -

A wild donkey accustomed to the wilderness H4057,

That sniffs the wind in her passion.

In the time of her [fn]heat who can turn her away?

All who seek her will not become weary;

In her month they will find her.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:31 -

“O generation, [fn]behold the word of Yahweh.

Have I been a wilderness H4057 to Israel

Or a land of thick darkness?

Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam;

We will no longer come to You’?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 -

“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see;

Where have you not been ravished?

By the roads you have sat for them

Like [fn]an Arab in the wilderness H4057,

And you have polluted a land

With your harlotry and with your evil.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:11 -

In that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A [fn]scorching wind from the bare heights in the wilderness H4057 along the way of the daughter of My people—not to winnow and not to cleanse,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:26 -

I saw, and behold, [fn]the fruitful orchard was a wilderness H4057,

And all its cities were torn down

Before Yahweh, before His burning anger.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:2 -

[fn]Oh that I had in the desert H4057

A travelers’ lodging place,

That I might leave my people

And go from them!

For all of them are adulterers,

A solemn assembly of treacherous men.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:10 -

“For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing,

And for the pastures of the wilderness H4057 a funeral lamentation,

Because they are turned into ruin so that no one passes through,

And the lowing of the cattle is not heard;

Both the birds of the sky and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:12 -

Who is the wise man that may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished, turned into ruin like a desert H4057, so that no one passes through?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:26 - Egypt and Judah, and Edom and the sons of Ammon, and Moab and all those inhabiting the desert H4057 who clip the hair on their temples; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:10 -

“Many shepherds have ruined My vineyard;

They have trampled down My portion;

They have made My desired portion

A desolate wilderness H4057.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:12 -

“On all the [fn]bare heights in the wilderness H4057

Destroyers have come,

For a sword of Yahweh is devouring

From one end of the land even to the [fn]other;

There is no peace for any flesh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:24 -

“Therefore I will scatter them like chaff passing away

Into the wilderness H4057 wind.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:6 -

“And he will be like a juniper in the desert

And will not see when prosperity comes,

But will dwell in stony wastes in the wilderness H4057,

A land of salt [fn]which is not inhabited.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:6 - For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah:

“You are like Gilead to Me,

Like the summit of Lebanon;

Yet most assuredly I will make you like a wilderness H4057,

Like cities which are not inhabited.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:10 -

For the land is full of adulterers;

For the land mourns because of the curse.

The pastures of the wilderness H4057 have dried up.

Their course also is evil,

And their might is not right.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:24 - and all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the [fn]foreign people who dwell in the desert H4057,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:2 -

Thus says Yahweh,

“The people who survived the sword

Found grace in the wilderness H4057

Israel, when it went to find its relief.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:6 -

“Flee, escape with your lives,

That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness H4057.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:12 -

Your mother [fn]will be greatly ashamed;

She who gave you birth [fn]will be humiliated.

Behold, she will be the least of the nations,

A wilderness H4057, a parched land, and a desert.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:3 -

Gimel

Even jackals offer the breast;

They nurse their young;

But the daughter of my people has become cruel

Like ostriches in the wilderness H4057.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:19 -

Qoph

Our pursuers were swifter

Than the eagles of the sky;

They hotly pursued us on the mountains;

They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness H4057.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:9 -

We get our bread [fn]at the risk of our lives

[fn]Because of the sword in the wilderness H4057.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:14 - “So throughout all their habitations I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land more desolate and desecrated than the wilderness H4057 toward Diblah; thus they will know that I am Yahweh.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:13 -

‘So now it is planted in the wilderness H4057,

In a dry and thirsty land.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:10 - “So I took them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness H4057.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:13 - “But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness H4057. They did not walk in My statutes, and they rejected My judgments, which, if a man does them, he will live by them; and My sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness H4057, to completely destroy them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:15 - “Also I swore to them in the wilderness H4057 that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:17 - “Yet My eye had pity on them rather than bringing them to ruin, and I did not make of them a complete destruction in the wilderness H4057.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:18 -

“I said to their [fn]children in the wilderness H4057, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers and do not keep their judgments and do not defile yourselves with their idols.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:21 - “But the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, nor were they careful to do My judgments, which, if a man does them, he will live by them; they profaned My sabbaths. So I said I would pour out My wrath on them, to spend My anger against them in the wilderness H4057.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:23 - “Also I swore to them in the wilderness H4057 that I would scatter them among the nations and [fn]disperse them among the lands
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:35 - and I will bring you into the wilderness H4057 of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:36 - “As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness H4057 of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” declares Lord Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:42 - “The sound of a multitude at ease was with her; and drunkards were brought from the wilderness H4057 with men of the [fn]common sort. And they put bracelets on [fn]the hands of the women and beautiful crowns on their heads.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:5 -

“I will abandon you to the wilderness H4057, you and all the fish of your canals of the Nile;

You will fall on the [fn]open field; you will not be brought together or [fn]gathered.

I have given you for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:25 -

“I will cut a covenant of peace with them and cause harmful beasts to cease from the land so that they may live securely in the wilderness H4057 and sleep in the woods.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:3 -

Lest I strip her naked

And set her forth as on the day when she was born

And make her like a wilderness H4057

And [fn]make her like dry land

And put her to death with thirst.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:14 -

“Therefore, behold, I will allure her

And bring her into the wilderness H4057

And speak to her heart.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10 -

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness H4057;

I saw your fathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.

But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to [fn]shame,

And they became as detestable as that which they loved.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:5 -

I Myself knew you in the wilderness H4057,

In the land of drought.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:15 -

Though he is fruitful among the [fn]reeds,

An east wind will come,

The wind of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness H4057;

And his fountain will become dry,

And his spring will be dried up;

It will plunder his treasury of every desirable article.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:19 -

To You, O Yahweh, I cry;

For fire has consumed the pastures of the wilderness H4057,

And the flame has burned up all the trees of the field.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:20 -

Even the beasts of the field [fn]pant for You;

For the water brooks are dried up,

And fire has consumed the pastures of the wilderness H4057.


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