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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
Dictionary Aids

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 5 / 6 (Isa 43:20–Joe 1:20)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:20 - The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, H4057 and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:2 - Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: H4057 their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3 - For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness H4057 like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:13 - That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, H4057 that they should not stumble?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10 - Thy holy cities are a wilderness, H4057 Zion is a wilderness, H4057 Jerusalem a desolation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:2 - Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, H4057 in a land that was not sown.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6 - Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, H4057 through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:24 - A wild ass used to the wilderness, H4057 that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:31 - O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness H4057 unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 - Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; H4057 and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:11 - At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness H4057 toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:26 - I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, H4057 and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:2 - Oh that I had in the wilderness H4057 a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:10 - For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness H4057 a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:12 - Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, H4057 that none passeth through?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:26 - Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: H4057 for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:10 - Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. H4057

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:12 - The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: H4057 for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:24 - Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness. H4057

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:6 - For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, H4057 in a salt land and not inhabited.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:6 - For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, H4057 and cities which are not inhabited.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:10 - For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness H4057 are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:24 - And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert, H4057

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:2 - Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; H4057 even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:6 - Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. H4057

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:12 - Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, H4057 a dry land, and a desert.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:3 - Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. H4057

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:19 - Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. H4057

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:9 - We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. H4057

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:14 - So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness H4057 toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:13 - And now she is planted in the wilderness, H4057 in a dry and thirsty ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:10 - Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. H4057

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:13 - But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: H4057 they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, H4057 to consume them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:15 - Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, H4057 that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:17 - Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness. H4057

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:18 - But I said unto their children in the wilderness, H4057 Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:21 - Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness. H4057

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:23 - I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, H4057 that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:35 - And I will bring you into the wilderness H4057 of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:36 - Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness H4057 of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:42

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:42 - And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, H4057 which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:5 - And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, H4057 thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:25 - And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, H4057 and sleep in the woods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:3 - Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, H4057 and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:14 - Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, H4057 and speak comfortably unto her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10 - I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; H4057 I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:5 - I did know thee in the wilderness, H4057 in the land of great drought.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:15 - Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, H4057 and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:19 - O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, H4057 and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:20 - The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness. H4057

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