מִדְבָּרmidbâr
מִדְבָּר: mouth, as organ of speech (Song of Solomon 4:3)
Pronunciation: mid-bawr' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4057
Meanings
מִדְבָּר: wilderness
1. tracts of land, used for the pasturage of flocks and herds (Joel 2:22; Psalms 65:13; Jeremiah 23:10)
2. uninhabited land (Job 38:26; Psalms 102:7; Job 24:5)
3. large tracts of such land bearing various names, in certain districts of which there might be towns and cities (Isaiah 42:11; Joshua 15:61; Joshua 15:62)
4. figurative (Hosea 2:5; Jeremiah 2:31)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 271 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 14:6 and the Horites at Mount Seir, as far as El-paran at the edge of the wilderness.
- Genesis 16:7 The angel of the Lord found Hagar beside a spring of water in the wilderness, along the road to Shur.
- Genesis 21:14 So Abraham got up early the next morning, prepared food and a container of water, and strapped them on Hagar’s shoulders. Then he sent her away with their son, and she wandered aimlessly in the wilderness of Beersheba.
- Genesis 21:20 And God was with the boy as he grew up in the wilderness. He became a skillful archer,
- Genesis 21:21 and he settled in the wilderness of Paran. His mother arranged for him to marry a woman from the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 36:24 The descendants of Zibeon were Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who discovered the hot springs in the wilderness while he was grazing his father’s donkeys.)
See every passage
- Genesis 14:6, 16:7, 21:14, 21:20, 21:21, 36:24, 37:22
- Exodus 3:1, 3:18, 4:27, 5:1, 5:3, 7:16, 8:27, 8:28, 13:18, 13:20, 14:3, 14:11, 14:12, 15:22, 16:1, 16:2, 16:3, 16:10, 16:14, 16:32, 17:1, 18:5, 19:1, 19:2, 23:31
- Leviticus 7:38, 16:10, 16:21, 16:22
- Numbers 1:1, 1:19, 3:4, 3:14, 9:1, 9:5, 10:12, 10:31, 12:16, 13:3, 13:21, 13:26, 14:2, 14:16, 14:22, 14:25, 14:29, 14:32, 14:33, 14:35, 15:32, 16:13, 20:1, 20:4, 21:5, 21:11, 21:13, 21:18, 21:23, 24:1, 26:64, 26:65, 27:3, 27:14, 32:13, 32:15, 33:6, 33:8, 33:11, 33:12, 33:15, 33:16, 33:36, 34:3
- Deuteronomy 1:1, 1:19, 1:31, 1:40, 2:1, 2:7, 2:8, 2:26, 4:43, 8:2, 8:15, 8:16, 9:7, 9:28, 11:5, 11:24, 29:5, 32:10, 32:51
- Joshua 1:4, 5:4, 5:5, 5:6, 8:15, 8:20, 8:24, 12:8, 14:10, 15:1, 15:61, 16:1, 18:12, 20:8, 24:7
- Judges 1:16, 8:7, 8:16, 11:16, 11:18, 11:22, 20:42, 20:45, 20:47
- 1 Samuel 4:8, 13:18, 17:28, 23:14, 23:15, 23:24, 23:25, 24:1, 25:1, 25:4, 25:14, 25:21, 26:2, 26:3
- 2 Samuel 2:24, 15:23, 15:28, 16:2, 17:16, 17:29
- 1 Kings 2:34, 9:18, 19:4, 19:15
- 2 Kings 3:8
- 1 Chronicles 5:9, 6:78, 12:8, 21:29
- 2 Chronicles 1:3, 8:4, 20:16, 20:20, 20:24, 24:9, 26:10
- Nehemiah 9:19, 9:21
- Job 1:19, 24:5, 38:26
- Psalms 29:8, 55:7, 63:0, 65:12, 75:6, 78:15, 78:19, 78:40, 78:52, 95:8, 102:6, 106:9, 106:14, 106:26, 107:4, 107:33, 107:35, 136:16
- Proverbs 21:19
- Song of Solomon 3:6, 4:3, 8:5
- Isaiah 14:17, 16:1, 16:8, 21:1, 27:10, 32:15, 32:16, 35:1, 35:6, 40:3, 41:18, 41:19, 42:11, 43:19, 43:20, 50:2, 51:3, 63:13, 64:10
- Jeremiah 2:2, 2:6, 2:24, 2:31, 3:2, 4:11, 4:26, 9:2, 9:10, 9:12, 9:26, 12:10, 12:12, 13:24, 17:6, 22:6, 23:10, 25:24, 31:2, 48:6, 50:12
- Lamentations 4:3, 4:19, 5:9
- Ezekiel 6:14, 19:13, 20:10, 20:13, 20:15, 20:17, 20:18, 20:21, 20:23, 20:35, 20:36, 23:42, 29:5, 34:25
- Hosea 2:3, 2:14, 9:10, 13:5, 13:15
- Joel 1:19, 1:20, 2:3, 2:22, 3:19
- Amos 2:10, 5:25
- Zephaniah 2:13
- Malachi 1:3
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