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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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 48 times in 44 verses in 'Num' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness H4057 of Sinai, in the tent 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 BoxNum 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:19 - just as the LORD had commanded Moses. So he counted them in the wilderness H4057 of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:4 - But Nadab and Abihu died in the presence of the LORD when they offered [fn]strange fire before the LORD in the wilderness H4057 of Sinai; and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests [fn]in the lifetime of their father Aaron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:14

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Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness H4057 of Sinai, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:1

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Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness H4057 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 BoxNum 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - And they celebrated the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness H4057 of Sinai; in accordance with everything that the LORD had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:12 - and the sons of Israel set out on their journeys from the wilderness H4057 of Sinai. Then the cloud settled in the wilderness H4057 of Paran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:31 - Then he said, “Please do not leave us, since you know [fn]where we should camp in the wilderness H4057, and you will be as eyes for us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:16 -

Afterward, however, the people moved on from Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness H4057 of Paran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:3 - So Moses sent them from the wilderness H4057 of Paran at the [fn]command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:21

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So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness H4057 of Zin as far as Rehob, [fn]at Lebo-hamath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:26 - they went on and came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, [fn]in the wilderness H4057 of Paran at Kadesh; and 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 BoxNum 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:2 - And all the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron; and the entire congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or even if we had died in this wilderness H4057!

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:16 - ‘Since the LORD could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, He slaughtered them in the wilderness H4057.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:22 - “Certainly all the people who have seen My glory and My signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness H4057, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - “Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness H4057 by the way of the [fn]Red Sea.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29 - your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness H4057, all your [fn]numbered men according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:32 - ‘But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness H4057.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33 - ‘Also, your sons will be shepherds in the wilderness H4057 for forty years, and they will [fn]suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your bodies perish in the wilderness H4057.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:35 - ‘I, the LORD, have spoken, I certainly will do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. They shall be worn out in this wilderness H4057, and there they shall die.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:32

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Now while the sons of Israel were in the wilderness H4057, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13 - “Is it [fn]not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to have us die in the wilderness H4057, but you would also appoint yourself as master over us?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:1

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Then the sons of Israel, the whole congregation, came to the wilderness H4057 of Zin in the first month; and the people stayed at Kadesh. Now Miriam died there and was buried there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:4 - “Why then have you brought the LORD’S assembly into this wilderness H4057, for us and our livestock to die [fn]here?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:5 - So the people spoke against God and Moses: “Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness H4057? For there is no [fn]food and no water, and [fn]we are disgusted with [fn]this miserable food.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:11 - Then they journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness H4057 which is opposite Moab, to the [fn]east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:13 - From there they journeyed and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness H4057 that comes out of the border of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:18 -

“The well, which the leaders dug,

Which the nobles of the people hollowed out,

With the scepter and with their staffs.”

And from the wilderness H4057 they continued to Mattanah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:23 - But Sihon would not permit Israel to pass through his border. Instead, Sihon gathered all his people and went out against Israel in the wilderness H4057, and came to Jahaz and fought against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:1

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When Balaam saw that it [fn]pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go as at other times to [fn]seek omens, rather he turned his [fn]attention toward the wilderness H4057.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:64

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:64 - But among these there was not a man of those who were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness H4057 of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:65

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:65 - For the LORD had said [fn]of them, “They shall certainly die in the wilderness H4057.” And not a man was left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:3 - “Our father died in the wilderness H4057, yet he was not among the group of those who gathered together against the LORD, in the group of Korah; but he died in his own sin, and he had no sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:14 - for in the wilderness H4057 of Zin, during the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against My [fn]command to treat Me as holy before their eyes at the water.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness H4057 of Zin.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13 - “So the LORD’S anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness H4057 for forty years, until the entire generation of those who had done evil in the sight of the LORD came to an end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:15 - “For if you turn away from following Him, He will once more leave them in the wilderness H4057, and you will destroy all these people.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:6 - They journeyed from Succoth and camped in Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness H4057.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:8 - They journeyed [fn]from Pi-hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea to the wilderness H4057; and they went three days’ journey in the wilderness H4057 of Etham and camped at Marah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11 - And they journeyed from the [fn]Red Sea and camped in the wilderness H4057 of Sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:12 - They journeyed from the wilderness H4057 of Sin and camped at Dophkah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:15 - And they journeyed from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness H4057 of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:16 - They journeyed from the wilderness H4057 of Sinai, and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:36 - They journeyed from Ezion-geber and camped in the wilderness H4057 of Zin, that is, Kadesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3 - ‘Your southern region shall [fn]extend from the wilderness H4057 of Zin along the side of Edom, and your southern border shall [fn]extend from the end of the Salt Sea eastward.
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