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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 271 times in 257 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 6 (Num 14:22–Jos 1:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:22 - not one of these people will ever enter that land. They have all seen my glorious presence and the miraculous signs I performed both in Egypt and in the wilderness, but again and again they have tested me by refusing to listen to my voice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - Now turn around, and don’t go on toward the land where the Amalekites and Canaanites live. Tomorrow you must set out for the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.[fn]”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29 - You will all drop dead in this wilderness! Because you complained against me, every one of you who is twenty years old or older and was included in the registration will die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:32 - But as for you, you will drop dead in this wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33 - And your children will be like shepherds, wandering in the wilderness for forty years. In this way, they will pay for your faithlessness, until the last of you lies dead in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:35 - I, the LORD, have spoken! I will certainly do these things to every member of the community who has conspired against me. They will be destroyed here in this wilderness, and here they will die!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:32 - One day while the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they discovered a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13 - Isn’t it enough that you brought us out of Egypt, a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us here in this wilderness, and that you now treat us like your subjects?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:1 - In the first month of the year,[fn] the whole community of Israel arrived in the wilderness of Zin and camped at Kadesh. While they were there, Miriam died and was buried.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:4 - Why have you brought the congregation of the LORD’s people into this wilderness to die, along with all our livestock?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:5 - and they began to speak against God and Moses. “Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die here in the wilderness?” they complained. “There is nothing to eat here and nothing to drink. And we hate this horrible manna!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:11 - Then they went on to Iye-abarim, in the wilderness on the eastern border of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:13 - Then they moved out and camped on the far side of the Arnon River, in the wilderness adjacent to the territory of the Amorites. The Arnon is the boundary line between the Moabites and the Amorites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:18 - Sing of this well,
which princes dug,
which great leaders hollowed out
with their scepters and staffs.” Then the Israelites left the wilderness and proceeded on through Mattanah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:23 - But King Sihon refused to let them cross his territory. Instead, he mobilized his entire army and attacked Israel in the wilderness, engaging them in battle at Jahaz.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:1 - By now Balaam realized that the LORD was determined to bless Israel, so he did not resort to divination as before. Instead, he turned and looked out toward the wilderness,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:64

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:64 - Not one person on this list had been among those listed in the previous registration taken by Moses and Aaron in the wilderness of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:65

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:65 - For the LORD had said of them, “They will all die in the wilderness.” Not one of them survived except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:3 - “Our father died in the wilderness,” they said. “He was not among Korah’s followers, who rebelled against the LORD; he died because of his own sin. But he had no sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:14 - for you both rebelled against my instructions in the wilderness of Zin. When the people of Israel rebelled, you failed to demonstrate my holiness to them at the waters.” (These are the waters of Meribah at Kadesh[fn] in the wilderness of Zin.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13 - “The LORD was angry with Israel and made them wander in the wilderness for forty years until the entire generation that sinned in the LORD’s sight had died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:15 - If you turn away from him like this and he abandons them again in the wilderness, you will be responsible for destroying this entire nation!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:6 - Then they left Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:8 - They left Pi-hahiroth and crossed the Red Sea[fn] into the wilderness beyond. Then they traveled for three days into the Etham wilderness and camped at Marah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11 - They left the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Sin.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:12

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:15 - They left Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:16 - They left the wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:36 - They left Ezion-geber and camped at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3 - The southern portion of your country will extend from the wilderness of Zin, along the edge of Edom. The southern boundary will begin on the east at the Dead Sea.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:1 - These are the words that Moses spoke to all the people of Israel while they were in the wilderness east of the Jordan River. They were camped in the Jordan Valley[fn] near Suph, between Paran on one side and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab on the other.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:19 - “Then, just as the LORD our God commanded us, we left Mount Sinai and traveled through the great and terrifying wilderness, as you yourselves remember, and headed toward the hill country of the Amorites. When we arrived at Kadesh-barnea,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:31 - And you saw how the LORD your God cared for you all along the way as you traveled through the wilderness, just as a father cares for his child. Now he has brought you to this place.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:40 - As for you, turn around now and go on back through the wilderness toward the Red Sea.[fn]’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1 - “Then we turned around and headed back across the wilderness toward the Red Sea,[fn] just as the LORD had instructed me, and we wandered around in the region of Mount Seir for a long time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:7 - For the LORD your God has blessed you in everything you have done. He has watched your every step through this great wilderness. During these forty years, the LORD your God has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.”’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:8 - “So we bypassed the territory of our relatives, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We avoided the road through the Arabah Valley that comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber.
“Then as we turned north along the desert route through Moab,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:26 - Moses continued, “From the wilderness of Kedemoth I sent ambassadors to King Sihon of Heshbon with this proposal of peace:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:43

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:43 - These were the cities: Bezer on the wilderness plateau for the tribe of Reuben; Ramoth in Gilead for the tribe of Gad; Golan in Bashan for the tribe of Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - Remember how the LORD your God led you through the wilderness for these forty years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would obey his commands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:15 - Do not forget that he led you through the great and terrifying wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, where it was so hot and dry. He gave you water from the rock!

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:16 - He fed you with manna in the wilderness, a food unknown to your ancestors. He did this to humble you and test you for your own good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:7 - “Remember and never forget how angry you made the LORD your God out in the wilderness. From the day you left Egypt until now, you have been constantly rebelling against him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:28 - If you destroy these people, the Egyptians will say, “The Israelites died because the LORD wasn’t able to bring them to the land he had promised to give them.” Or they might say, “He destroyed them because he hated them; he deliberately took them into the wilderness to slaughter them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:5 - “Your children didn’t see how the LORD cared for you in the wilderness until you arrived here.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:24 - Wherever you set foot, that land will be yours. Your frontiers will stretch from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north, and from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:5 - For forty years I led you through the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:10 - He found them in a desert land,
in an empty, howling wasteland.
He surrounded them and watched over them;
he guarded them as he would guard his own eyes.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:51

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:51 - For both of you betrayed me with the Israelites at the waters of Meribah at Kadesh[fn] in the wilderness of Zin. You failed to demonstrate my holiness to the people of Israel there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:4 - from the Negev wilderness in the south to the Lebanon mountains in the north, from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea[fn] in the west, including all the land of the Hittites.’

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