H4057 מִדְבָּר
midbâr — a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Derived from דָבַר dâbar (perhaps properly, to arrange)
Occurs 271 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [מִדְבָּר] n.m. mouth, as organ of speech, Ct 4:3
- מִדְבָר n.m
- מִדְבָר 270 n.m. wilderness
- 1 tracts of land, used for the pasturage of flocks and herds
- 2 uninhabited land
- 3 large tracts of such land bearing various names, in certain districts of which there might be towns and cities
- 4 fig.
Where it occurs
- Genesis 14:6 — and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.
- Genesis 16:7 — The LORD’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.
- Genesis 21:14 — Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her…
- Genesis 21:20 — God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, he became an archer.
- Genesis 21:21 — He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 36:24 — These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed…
- Genesis 37:22 — Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he…
- Exodus 3:1 — Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of…
- Exodus 3:18 — They will listen to your voice. You shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell…
- Exodus 4:27 — The LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” He went, and met him on God’s mountain, and kissed him.