יְשִׁימוֹןyᵉshîymôwn

waste, wilderness

Pronunciation: yesh-ee-mone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3452

Meanings

a. waste, wilderness (Numbers 21:20; Numbers 23:28; 1 Samuel 23:19)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 13 times in the Bible.

  • Numbers 21:20 After that they went to the valley in Moab where Pisgah Peak overlooks the wasteland.
  • Numbers 23:28 So Balak took Balaam to the top of Mount Peor, overlooking the wasteland.
  • Deuteronomy 32:10 He found them in a desert land, in an empty, howling wasteland. He surrounded them and watched over them; he guarded them as he would guard his own eyes.
  • 1 Samuel 23:19 But now the men of Ziph went to Saul in Gibeah and betrayed David to him. “We know where David is hiding,” they said. “He is in the strongholds of Horesh on the hill of Hakilah, which is in the southern part of Jeshimon.
  • 1 Samuel 23:24 So the men of Ziph returned home ahead of Saul. Meanwhile, David and his men had moved into the wilderness of Maon in the Arabah Valley south of Jeshimon.
  • 1 Samuel 26:1 Now some men from Ziph came to Saul at Gibeah to tell him, “David is hiding on the hill of Hakilah, which overlooks Jeshimon.”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).