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:
Isaiah 21:1: "The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert,"
Isaiah 21:1: "in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land."
Isaiah 27:10: "and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there"
Isaiah 32:15: "be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field"
Isaiah 32:16: "Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field."
Isaiah 35:1: " The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose."
Isaiah 35:6: "of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert."
Isaiah 40:3: "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert"
Isaiah 41:18: "in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land"
Isaiah 41:19: "I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set"
Isaiah 42:11: " Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock"
Isaiah 43:19: "it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert."
Isaiah 43:20: "and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink"
Isaiah 50:2: "at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh,"
Isaiah 51:3: "all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD;"
Isaiah 63:13: "That led them through the deep, as a horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?"
Isaiah 64:10: "Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem"
Isaiah 64:10: "a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation."
Jeremiah 2:2: "of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown."
Jeremiah 2:6: "that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts"
Jeremiah 2:24: "A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion"
Jeremiah 2:31: "the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore"
Jeremiah 3:2: "the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness."
Jeremiah 4:11: "A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan,"
Jeremiah 4:26: "I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence"
Jeremiah 9:2: "Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people,"
Jeremiah 9:10: "and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none"
Jeremiah 9:12: "the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?"
Jeremiah 9:26: "that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised,"
Jeremiah 12:10: "they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness."
Jeremiah 12:12: "upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour"
Jeremiah 13:24: "them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness."
Jeremiah 17:6: "cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited."
Jeremiah 22:6: "of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited."
Jeremiah 23:10: "of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is"
Jeremiah 25:24: "the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,"
Jeremiah 31:2: "of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest."
Jeremiah 48:6: "your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness."
Jeremiah 50:12: "behold, the hindmost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert."
Lamentations 4:3: "of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness."
Lamentations 4:19: "they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness."
Lamentations 5:9: "with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness."
Ezekiel 6:14: "the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations:"
Ezekiel 19:13: "And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground."
Ezekiel 20:10: "out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness."
Ezekiel 20:13: "But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised"
Ezekiel 20:13: "then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume"
Ezekiel 20:15: "I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land"
Ezekiel 20:17: "them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness."
Ezekiel 20:18: "But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers,"
