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:
2 Samuel 16:2: "to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink."
2 Samuel 17:16: "not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest"
2 Samuel 17:29: "is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness."
1 Kings 2:34: "upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness."
1 Kings 9:18: "And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,"
1 Kings 19:4: "went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a"
1 Kings 19:15: "him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint"
2 Kings 3:8: "way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom."
1 Chronicles 5:9: "he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because"
1 Chronicles 6:78: "were given them out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah"
1 Chronicles 12:8: "unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war"
1 Chronicles 21:29: "which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season"
2 Chronicles 1:3: "the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness."
2 Chronicles 8:4: "And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which"
2 Chronicles 20:16: "them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel."
2 Chronicles 20:20: "And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood"
2 Chronicles 20:24: "came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold,"
2 Chronicles 24:9: "of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness."
2 Chronicles 26:10: "Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had"
Nehemiah 9:19: "mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed"
Nehemiah 9:21: "Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old,"
Job 1:19: "a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners"
Job 24:5: "Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising quickly for a prey: the wilderness"
Job 38:26: "the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;"
Psalms 29:8: "The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh."
Psalms 29:8: "the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh."
Psalms 55:7: "then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah."
Psalms 63:1: "A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God;"
Psalms 65:12: "They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side."
Psalms 75:6: "from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south."
Psalms 78:15: "He cleaved the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths."
Psalms 78:19: "God furnish a table in the wilderness?"
Psalms 78:40: "How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!"
Psalms 78:52: "to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock."
Psalms 95:8: "as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:"
Psalms 102:6: "I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert."
Psalms 106:9: "also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness."
Psalms 106:14: "But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert."
Psalms 106:26: "Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:"
Psalms 107:4: "They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell"
Psalms 107:33: "He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;"
Psalms 107:35: "He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings."
Psalms 136:16: "To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth forever."
Proverbs 21:19: "It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman."
Song of Solomon 3:6: "is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh"
Song of Solomon 4:3: "Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate"
Song of Solomon 8:5: "is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up"
Isaiah 14:17: "That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house"
Isaiah 16:1: "to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter"
Isaiah 16:8: "even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea."
