Strong's #4057: midbar (pronounced mid-bawr')
from 1696 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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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midbâr
1) wilderness
1a) pasture
1b) uninhabited land, wilderness
1c) large tracts of wilderness (around cities)
1d) wilderness (figuratively)
2) mouth
2a) mouth (as organ of speech)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H1696 in the sense of driving
Same Word by TWOT Number: 399k, 399L
Usage:
This word is used 271 times:
Deuteronomy 11:5: "And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place;"
Deuteronomy 11:24: "shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river"
Deuteronomy 29:5: "And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon"
Deuteronomy 32:10: "He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed"
Deuteronomy 32:51: "the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because"
Joshua 1:4: " From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river"
Joshua 5:4: "even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt."
Joshua 5:5: "but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt,"
Joshua 5:6: "walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men"
Joshua 8:15: "before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness."
Joshua 8:20: "or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers."
Joshua 8:24: "the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen"
Joshua 12:8: "and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites,"
Joshua 14:10: "unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo,"
Joshua 15:1: "even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part"
Joshua 15:61: " In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah,"
Joshua 16:1: "by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho"
Joshua 18:12: "through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Beth-aven."
Joshua 20:8: "eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe"
Joshua 24:7: "I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season."
Judges 1:16: "of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which"
Judges 8:7: "your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers."
Judges 8:16: "the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men"
Judges 11:16: "came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea,"
Judges 11:18: "Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab,"
Judges 11:22: "from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan."
Judges 20:42: "of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities"
Judges 20:45: "And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways"
Judges 20:47: "men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode"
1 Samuel 4:8: "the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness."
1 Samuel 13:18: "to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness."
1 Samuel 17:28: "those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride,"
1 Samuel 23:14: "And David abode in the wilderness in strongholds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph."
1 Samuel 23:14: "in strongholds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every"
1 Samuel 23:15: "his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood."
1 Samuel 23:24: "Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south"
1 Samuel 23:25: "wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued"
1 Samuel 23:25: "that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon."
1 Samuel 24:1: "that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of En-gedi."
1 Samuel 25:1: "arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran."
1 Samuel 25:4: "And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep."
1 Samuel 25:14: "saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute"
1 Samuel 25:21: "all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all"
1 Samuel 26:2: "arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen"
1 Samuel 26:2: "him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph."
1 Samuel 26:3: "by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul"
1 Samuel 26:3: "that Saul came after him into the wilderness."
2 Samuel 2:24: "lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon."
2 Samuel 15:23: "toward the way of the wilderness."
2 Samuel 15:28: "I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from"
