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:
Ezekiel 20:21: "my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness."
Ezekiel 20:23: "mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;"
Ezekiel 20:35: "And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face"
Ezekiel 20:36: "I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead"
Ezekiel 23:42: "of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put"
Ezekiel 29:5: "And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open"
Ezekiel 34:25: "the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods."
Hosea 2:3: "her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay"
Hosea 2:14: "I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably"
Hosea 9:10: "I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree"
Hosea 13:5: "I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought."
Hosea 13:15: "the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain"
Joel 1:19: "the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees"
Joel 1:20: "and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness."
Joel 2:3: "before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape"
Joel 2:22: "ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree"
Joel 3:19: "and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah,"
Amos 2:10: "from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess"
Amos 5:25: "Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?"
Zephaniah 2:13: "Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness."
Malachi 1:3: "and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness."
