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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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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4057 matches the Hebrew מִדְבָּר (miḏbār),
which occurs 21 times in 21 verses in 'Jer' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:2 - “Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘This is what the LORD says:

“I remember regarding you the [fn]devotion of your youth,

Your love when you were a bride,

Your following after Me in the wilderness H4057,

Through a land not sown.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6 -

“They did not say, ‘Where is the LORD

Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,

Who led us through the wilderness H4057,

Through a land of deserts and of pits,

Through a land of drought and of [fn]deep darkness,

Through a land that no one crossed

And where no person lived?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:24 -

A wild donkey accustomed to the wilderness H4057,

That sniffs the wind in her passion.

Who can turn her away in her mating season?

None who seek her will grow weary;

In her month they will find her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:31 -

“You generation, look to the word of the LORD.

Have I been a wilderness H4057 to Israel,

Or a land of thick darkness?

Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam;

We will no longer come to You’?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 -

“Raise your eyes to the bare heights and see;

Where have you not been violated?

You have sat for them by the roads

Like an Arab in the desert H4057,

And you have defiled a land

With your prostitution and your wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:11 -

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A scorching wind from the bare heights in the wilderness H4057, in the direction of the daughter of My people—not to winnow and not to cleanse,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:26 -

I looked, and behold, [fn]the fruitful land was a wilderness H4057,

And all its cities were pulled down

Before the LORD, before His fierce anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:2 -

[fn]Oh that I had in the desert H4057

A travelers’ lodging place;

So that I might leave my people

And go away from them!

For all of them are adulterers,

An assembly of treacherous people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:10 -

“I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains,

And for the pastures of the wilderness H4057 a song of mourning,

Because they are laid waste so that no one passes through,

And the sound of the livestock is not heard;

Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled; they are gone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:12 -

Who is the wise person who may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land destroyed, laid waste like the desert H4057, so that no one passes through?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:26 - Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all those inhabiting the desert H4057 who trim the hair on their temples; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:10 -

“Many shepherds have ruined My vineyard,

They have trampled down My field;

They have made My pleasant field

A desolate wilderness H4057.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:12 -

“On all the [fn]bare heights in the wilderness H4057

Destroyers have come,

For the sword of the LORD is devouring

From one end of the land even to the [fn]other;

There is no peace for [fn]anyone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:24 -

“Therefore I will scatter them like drifting straw

To the desert H4057 wind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:6 -

“For he will be like a bush in the desert,

And will not see when prosperity comes,

But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness H4057,

A land of salt that is not inhabited.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:6 - For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah:

“You are like Gilead to Me,

Like the summit of Lebanon;

Yet most assuredly I will make you a wilderness H4057,

Cities that 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 the land mourns because of the curse.

The pastures of the wilderness H4057 have dried up.

Their course is evil

And their might is not right.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:24 - and to all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the foreign [fn]people who live in the desert H4057;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:2 -

This is what the LORD says:

“The people who survived the sword

Found grace in the wilderness H4057—

Israel, when it went to find its rest.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:6 -

“Flee, save yourselves,

So that you may be like a juniper in the wilderness H4057.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:12 -

Your mother [fn]will be greatly ashamed,

She who gave you birth [fn]will be humiliated.

Behold, she will be the least of the nations,

A wilderness H4057, a dry land and a desert.

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