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Lexicon :: Strong's H4057 - miḏbār

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מִדְבָּר
Transliteration
miḏbār
Pronunciation
mid-bawr'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From דָּבַר (H1696) in the sense of driving
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TWOT Reference: 399k,399L

Strong’s Definitions

מִדְבָּר midbâr, mid-bawr'; from H1696 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.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 271x

The KJV translates Strong's H4057 in the following manner: wilderness (255x), desert (13x), south (1x), speech (1x), wilderness (with H776) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 271x
The KJV translates Strong's H4057 in the following manner: wilderness (255x), desert (13x), south (1x), speech (1x), wilderness (with H776) (1x).

  1. wilderness

    1. pasture

    2. uninhabited land, wilderness

    3. large tracts of wilderness (around cities)

    4. wilderness (fig.)

  2. mouth

    1. mouth (as organ of speech)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִדְבָּר midbâr, mid-bawr'; from H1696 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.
STRONGS H4057: Abbreviations
† I. [מִדְבָּר] noun masculine mouth, as organ of speech, — מִדְבָּרֵךְ נָאוֶה thy mouth is lovely Songs 4:3 || שִׁפְתוֺתַיִךְ, Greek Version of the LXX λαλιά, Jerome eloquium.

II. מִדְבָּר 270 noun masculine wilderness — Deuteronomy 32:10 +; with ה locative מִדְבָּ֫רָה Joshua 18:12 15 times; construct Exodus 15:22 +; מִדְבַּ֫רָה 1 Kings 19:15; suffix מִדְבָּרָהּ Isaiah 51:3; —
1. tracts of land, used for the pasturage of flocks and herds, דָּֽשְׁאוּ נְאוֺת מִדְבָּר the pastures of the wilderness put forth green grass Joel 2:22; מ׳ יִרְעֲפוּ נ׳ the pastures of the wilderness drop (fertility) Psalm 65:13; מ׳ יָָֽבְשׁוּ נ׳ are dried up Jeremiah 23:10, compare Jeremiah 9:9; Joel 1:19,20.
2. uninhabited land, מִדְבָּר לֹאאָֿדָם בּוֺ wilderness in which is no man Job 38:26; the abode of pelicans Psalm 102:7; wild asses Job 24:5; Jeremiah 2:24; jackals Malachi 1:3; ostriches Lamentations 4:3; מִייִֿתְּנֵנִי בַמִּדְבָּר מְלוֺן אֹרְחִים וְֶֽֽֽאעֶזְבָה אֶתעַֿמִּי O that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfarers, that I might leave my people Jeremiah 9:1; טוֺב שֶׁבֶת בְּאֶרֶץ מִדְבָּר better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious woman Proverbs 21:19; בְּאֶרֶץ מִדְבָּר וּבְתֹהוּ יְלֵל יְשִׁמֹן in a desert land, and in a waste howling wilderness Deuteronomy 32:10.
3. large tracts of such land bearing various names, in certain districts of which there might be towns and cities: יִשְׂאוּ מִדְבָּר וְעָרָיו חֲצֵרִים תֵּשֵׁב קֵדָר let the wilderness and its cities lift up (their voice), the villages that Kedar doth inhabit Isaiah 42:11. There were six cities in the wilderness of Judah Joshua 15:61,62; הַמִּדְבָּר usually = wilderness of the wanderings Genesis 14:6; Numbers 14:16,29,32,33 (twice in verse) +, or the great Arabian desert Judges 11:22 +; but may also refer to any other Songs 3:6; Songs 8:5. Special tracts — (a) of the wilderness of the wandering were שׁוּר מ׳ Exodus 15:22, סין Exodus 16:1 +, סיני Exodus 19:1 +, פארן Numbers 13:26 +, צן Numbers 20:1 +, קדשׁ Psalm 29:8, אתם Numbers 33:8; (b) in West Palestine יהודה מ׳ Judges 1:16; Psalm 63:1 compare Joshua 15:61, מעוֺן 1 Samuel 23:24,25, זיף 1 Samuel 23:15; 1 Samuel 26:2, באר שׁבע Genesis 21:14, עין גדי 1 Samuel 24:2, תקוע 2 Chronicles 20:20, ירואל 2 Chronicles 20:16, גבעון 2 Samuel 2:24; (c) in Eastern Palestine מואב Deuteronomy 2:8, אדום 2 Kings 3:8, קדמות Deuteronomy 2:26.
4. figurative וְשַׂמְתִּיהָ כַמִּדְבָּר וְשַׁתִּהָ כְּאֶרֶץ צִיָּה and (lest I) make her as a wilderness and set her like a dry land Hosea 2:5; הֲמִדְבָּר הָיִיתִי לְיִשְׂרָאֵל have I been a wilderness to Israel ? Jeremiah 2:31.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

14:6; 21:14

Exodus

15:22; 15:22; 16:1; 19:1

Numbers

13:26; 14:16; 14:29; 14:32; 14:33; 20:1; 33:8

Deuteronomy

2:8; 2:26; 32:10; 32:10

Joshua

15:61; 15:61; 15:62; 18:12

Judges

1:16; 11:22

1 Samuel

23:15; 23:24; 23:25; 24:2; 26:2

2 Samuel

2:24

1 Kings

19:15

2 Kings

3:8

2 Chronicles

20:16; 20:20

Job

24:5; 38:26

Psalms

29:8; 63:1; 65:13; 102:7

Proverbs

21:19

Song of Songs

3:6; 4:3; 8:5

Isaiah

42:11; 51:3

Jeremiah

2:24; 2:31; 9:1; 9:9; 23:10

Lamentations

4:3

Hosea

2:5

Joel

1:19; 1:20; 2:22

Malachi

1:3

H4057

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Strong's Number H4057 matches the Hebrew מִדְבָּר (miḏbār),
which occurs 48 times in 44 verses in 'Num' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:1 - And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the tent of meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year after their departure from the land of Egypt, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:19 - As Jehovah had commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:4 - And Nadab and Abihu died before Jehovah when they offered strange fire before Jehovah in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no sons; and Eleazar and Ithamar exercised the priesthood in the presence of Aaron their father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:14 - And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:1 - And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after their departure from the land of Egypt, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - And they held the passover in the first month on the fourteenth day of the month, between the two evenings, in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:12 - And the children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stood still in the wilderness of Paran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:31 - And he said, Leave me not, I pray thee, because thou knowest where we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou wilt be to us for eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:16 - And afterwards the people journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:3 - And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran: according to the commandment of Jehovah, all of them heads of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:21 - And they went up, and searched out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, where one comes towards Hamath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:26 - And they came, and went to Moses and to Aaron, and to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to the whole assembly; and shewed them the fruit of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:2 - And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole assembly said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness would that we had died!

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:16 - Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land that he had sworn unto them, he has therefore slain them in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:22 - for all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley.) To-morrow turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness, on the way to the Red sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29 - In this wilderness shall your carcases fall; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number from twenty years old and upwards, who have murmured against me,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:32 - And as to you, your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33 - And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:35 - I Jehovah have spoken; I will surely do it unto all this evil assembly which have gathered together against me! in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:32 - And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13 - Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that thou must make thyself altogether a ruler over us?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:1 - And the children of Israel, the whole assembly, came into the wilderness of Zin, in the first month; and the people abode at Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:4 - And why have ye brought the congregation of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:5 - and the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have ye brought us up out of Egypt that we should die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and no water, and our soul loathes this light bread.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:11 - And they removed from Oboth, and encamped at Ijim-Abarim, in the wilderness that is before Moab, toward the sun-rising.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:13 - From thence they removed, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites. For the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:18 - Well which princes digged, which the nobles of the people hollowed out at the word of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:23 - But Sihon would not suffer Israel to go through his border; and Sihon gathered all his people, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:1 - And Balaam saw that it was good in the sight of Jehovah to bless Israel, and he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:64

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:64 - But among these there was not a man numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:65

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:65 - For Jehovah had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:3 - Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the band of them that banded themselves together against Jehovah in the band of Korah; but he died in his own sin, and he had no sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:14 - because ye rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, as to hallowing me in the matter of the water before their eyes. (That is the water of Meribah at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13 - And Jehovah's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation was consumed that had done evil in the eyes of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:15 - If ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:6 - And they removed from Succoth and encamped in Etham, which is at the end of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:8 - And they removed from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11 - And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:12 - And they removed from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:15 - And they removed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:16 - And they removed from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped at Kibroth-hattaavah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:36 - And they removed from Ezion-geber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3 - Then your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin alongside of Edom, and your southern border shall be from the end of the salt sea eastward;
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