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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 271 times in 257 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 6 (Num 14:22–Jos 1:4)

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:22 - Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, H4057 and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness H4057 by the way of the Red sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29 - Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; H4057 and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:32 - But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness. H4057

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33 - And your children shall wander in the wilderness H4057 forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. H4057

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:35 - I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness H4057 they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:32 - And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, H4057 they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13 - Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, H4057 except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:1 - Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert H4057 of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:4 - And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, H4057 that we and our cattle should die there?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:5 - And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? H4057 for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:11 - And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness H4057 which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:13 - From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness H4057 that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:18 - The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness H4057 they went to Mattanah:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:23 - And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: H4057 and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:1 - And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness. H4057

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:64

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:64 - But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness H4057 of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:65

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:65 - For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. H4057 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 Box Num 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:3 - Our father died in the wilderness, H4057 and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:14 - For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert H4057 of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness H4057 of Zin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13 - And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness H4057 forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:15 - For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; H4057 and ye shall destroy all this people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:6 - And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness. H4057

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:8 - And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, H4057 and went three days' journey in the wilderness H4057 of Etham, and pitched in Marah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11 - And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness H4057 of Sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:12 - And they took their journey out of the wilderness H4057 of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:15 - And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness H4057 of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:16 - And they removed from the desert H4057 of Sinai, and pitched at Kibrothhattaavah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:36 - And they removed from Eziongaber, and pitched in the wilderness H4057 of Zin, which is Kadesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3 - Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness H4057 of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:1 - These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, H4057 in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:19 - And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, H4057 which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:31 - And in the wilderness, H4057 where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:40 - But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness H4057 by the way of the Red sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1 - Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness H4057 by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:7 - For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: H4057 these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:8 - And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness H4057 of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:26 - And I sent messengers out of the wilderness H4057 of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:43

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:43 - Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, H4057 in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, H4057 to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:15 - Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, H4057 wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:16 - Who fed thee in the wilderness H4057 with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:7 - Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: H4057 from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:28 - Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. H4057

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:5 - And what he did unto you in the wilderness, H4057 until ye came into this place;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:24 - Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness H4057 and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:5 - And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: H4057 your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:10 - He found him in a desert H4057 land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:51

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:51 - Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness H4057 of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:4 - From the wilderness H4057 and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.

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