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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 2 / 6 (Num 14:22–Jos 1:4)

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:22 - “Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My signs which I have done in Egypt and in the wilderness H4057, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - “Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; turn tomorrow and set out to the wilderness H4057 by the way of the [fn]Red Sea.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29 - your corpses will fall in this wilderness H4057, even all your [fn]numbered men, according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:32 - ‘But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness H4057.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33 - ‘And your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness H4057, and they will [fn]suffer for your [fn]unfaithfulness, until your corpses come to an end in the wilderness H4057.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:35 - ‘I, Yahweh, have spoken, surely this I will do to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness H4057 they shall come to an end, and there they will die.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:32 -

Now the sons of Israel were in the wilderness H4057, and they found a man gathering wood on the sabbath day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13 - “Is it [fn]not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to put us to death in the wilderness H4057, but you would also lord it over us?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:1 -

Then the sons of Israel, the whole congregation, came to the wilderness H4057 of Zin in the first month; and the people stayed at Kadesh. And Miriam died there and was buried there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:4 - “Why then have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness H4057, for us and our beasts to die [fn]here?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:5 - And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness H4057? For there is no [fn]food and no water, and [fn]we loathe this miserable food.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:11 - They then set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness H4057 which is opposite Moab, east toward the sunrise.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:13 - From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness H4057 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 Box Num 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:18 -

“The well, which the leaders dug,

Which the nobles of the people carved out,

With the scepter and with their staffs.”

And from the wilderness H4057 they continued to Mattanah,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:23 - But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border. So Sihon gathered all his people and went out to meet Israel in the wilderness H4057 and came to Jahaz and fought against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:1 -

And Balaam saw that it was good in the eyes of Yahweh to bless Israel, so he did not go as at other times to [fn]encounter omens, 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 those who were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness H4057 of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:65

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:65 - For Yahweh had said [fn]of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness H4057.” And not a man was left of them, except 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, yet he was not among the congregation of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the congregation of Korah; but he died in his own sin, and he had no sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:14 - for in the wilderness H4057 of Zin, during the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against My [fn]command [fn]to treat Me as holy before their eyes at the water.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness H4057 of Zin.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13 - “So Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness H4057 forty years, until the entire generation of those who had done evil in the sight of Yahweh was brought to an end.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:15 - “For if you turn away from following Him, He will once more abandon them in the wilderness H4057, and you will destroy all these people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:6 -

They journeyed from Succoth and camped in Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness H4057.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:8 -

They journeyed [fn]from before Hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness H4057; and they went three days’ journey in the wilderness H4057 of Etham and camped at Marah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:11 -

They journeyed from the [fn]Red Sea and camped in the wilderness H4057 of Sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:12 -

They journeyed from the wilderness H4057 of Sin and camped at Dophkah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:15 -

They journeyed from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness H4057 of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:16 -

They journeyed from the wilderness H4057 of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:36 -

They journeyed from Ezion-geber and camped in the wilderness H4057 of Zin, that is, Kadesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3 - ‘And your southern [fn]sector shall [fn]extend from the wilderness H4057 of Zin along the side of Edom, and your southern border shall [fn]extend from the end of the Salt Sea eastward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:1 -

These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness H4057, in the Arabah opposite [fn]Suph, 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 -

“Then we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and fearsome wilderness H4057 which you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, just as Yahweh our God had commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:31 - and in the wilderness H4057 where you saw how Yahweh your God carried you, just as a man carries his son, in all the way which you have walked until you came to this place.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:40 - ‘But as for you, turn around and set out for the wilderness H4057 by the way to the [fn]Red Sea.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1 -

“Then we turned and set out for the wilderness H4057 by the way to the [fn]Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me, and circled Mount Seir for many days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:7 - “For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; He has known your [fn]wanderings through this great wilderness H4057. These forty years Yahweh your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:8 -

“So we passed beyond our brothers the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road, away from Elath and from Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed through by the way of the wilderness H4057 of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:26 -

“So I sent messengers from the wilderness H4057 of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:43

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:43 - Bezer in the wilderness H4057 on the plateau for the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - “And you shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you in the wilderness H4057 these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:15 - “He led you through the great and fearsome wilderness H4057, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; He brought water for you out of the rock of flint.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:16 - “In the wilderness H4057 He fed you manna which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do good for you [fn]in the end,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:7 - “Remember, do not forget how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness H4057; from the day that you went out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:28 - lest the land from which You brought us say, “Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which He had [fn]promised them and because He hated them He has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness H4057.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:5 - and what He did to you in the wilderness H4057 until you came to this place;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:24 - “Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours; your border will be from the wilderness H4057 to Lebanon, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the [fn]western sea.

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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 have not worn out on you, and your sandal has not worn out on your 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 howling waste of a wilderness;

He encircled him; He cared for him;

He guarded him as the pupil of His eye.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:51

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:51 - because you both acted unfaithfully with Me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness H4057 of Zin, because you both did not treat Me as holy in the midst of the sons 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 as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and as far as the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun will be your territory.

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