# H4057 מִדְבָּר

מִדְבָּר (midbâr), Strong’s H4057: a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs) KJV: desert, south, speech, wilderness.. Occurs…

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*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](https://besorah.bible/word/H1696) (perhaps properly, to arrange)

Occurs 271 times.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=6) — and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.
- [Genesis 16:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=21) — He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
- [Genesis 36:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/36?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/3?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/3?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/4?v=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.