{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H4057",
  "lemma": "מִדְבָּר",
  "transliteration": "midbâr",
  "definition": "a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)",
  "kjv": "desert, south, speech, wilderness.",
  "occurrences": 271,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H1696",
      "lemma": "דָבַר",
      "transliteration": "dâbar",
      "meaning": "perhaps properly, to arrange",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H1696"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[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."
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 14:6",
      "text": "and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 16:7",
      "text": "The LORD’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 21:14",
      "text": "Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 21:20",
      "text": "God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, he became an archer.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 21:21",
      "text": "He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 36:24",
      "text": "These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/36?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 37:22",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 3:1",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/3?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 3:18",
      "text": "They will listen to your voice. You shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/3?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 4:27",
      "text": "The LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” He went, and met him on God’s mountain, and kissed him.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/4?v=27"
    }
  ],
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