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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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
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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 3 / 6 (Jos 5:4–1Ch 6:78)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:4 - This is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt who were males, all the men of war, died in the wilderness H4057 along the way after they came out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:5 - For all the people who came out were circumcised, but all the people who were born in the wilderness H4057 along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:6 - For the sons of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, H4057 until all the nation, that is, the men of war who came out of Egypt, [fn]perished because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD, to whom the LORD had sworn that He would not let them see the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:15 - Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. H4057

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:20 - When the men of Ai turned [fn]back and looked, behold, the smoke of the city ascended to the sky, and they had no place to flee this way or that, for the people who had been fleeing to the wilderness H4057 turned against the pursuers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:24 - Now when Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field in the wilderness H4057 where they pursued them, and all of them were fallen by the edge of the sword until they were destroyed, then all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:8 - in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, on the slopes, and in the wilderness, H4057 and in the [fn]Negev; the Hittite, the Amorite and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:10 - “Now behold, the LORD has let me live, just as He spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, when Israel walked in the wilderness; H4057 and now behold, I am eighty-five years old today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:1 - Now the lot for the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families [fn]reached the border of Edom, southward to the wilderness H4057 of Zin at the extreme south.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:61 - In the wilderness: H4057 Beth-arabah, Middin and Secacah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:1 - Then the lot for the sons of Joseph went from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho on the east into the wilderness, H4057 going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:12 - Their border on the north side was from the Jordan, then the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward, and [fn]it ended at the wilderness H4057 of Beth-aven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:8 - Beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they [fn]designated Bezer in the wilderness H4057 on the plain from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:7 - ‘But when they cried out to the LORD, He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them and covered them; and your own eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness H4057 for a long time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:16 - The [fn]descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up from the city of palms with the sons of Judah, to the wilderness H4057 of Judah which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:7 - Gideon said, “[fn]All right, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will [fn]thrash your [fn]bodies with the thorns of the wilderness H4057 and with briers.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:16 - He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness H4057 and briers, and he [fn]disciplined the men of Succoth with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:16 - ‘For when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness H4057 to the [fn]Red Sea and came to Kadesh,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:18 - ‘Then they went through the wilderness H4057 and around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came to the east side of the land of Moab, and they camped beyond the Arnon; but they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:22 - ‘So they possessed all the territory of the Amorites, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok, and from the wilderness H4057 as far as the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:42

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:42 - Therefore, they turned their backs before the men of Israel toward the direction of the wilderness, H4057 but the battle overtook them while those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45 - [fn]The rest turned and fled toward the wilderness H4057 to the rock of Rimmon, but they [fn]caught 5,000 of them on the highways and overtook them [fn]at Gidom and [fn]killed 2,000 of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:47

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:47 - But 600 men turned and fled toward the wilderness H4057 to the rock of Rimmon, and they remained at the rock of Rimmon four months.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:8 - “Woe to us! Who shall deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who smote the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness. H4057

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:18 - and another [fn]company turned [fn]toward Beth-horon, and another [fn]company turned [fn]toward the border which overlooks the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. H4057

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:28 - Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? H4057 I know your insolence and the wickedness of your heart; for you have come down in order to see the battle.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:14 - David stayed in the wilderness H4057 in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness H4057 of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not deliver him into his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:15 - Now David [fn]became aware that Saul had come out to seek his life while David was in the wilderness H4057 of Ziph at Horesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:24 - Then they arose and went to Ziph before Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness H4057 of Maon, in the Arabah to the [fn]south of [fn]Jeshimon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:25 - When Saul and his men went to seek him, they told David, and he came down to the rock and stayed in the wilderness H4057 of Maon. And when Saul heard it, he pursued David in the wilderness H4057 of Maon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:1 - Now when Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, saying, “Behold, David is in the wilderness H4057 of Engedi.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:1 - Then Samuel died; and all Israel gathered together and mourned for him, and buried him at his house in Ramah. And David arose and went down to the wilderness H4057 of Paran.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:4 - that David heard in the wilderness H4057 that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:14 - But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness H4057 to [fn]greet our master, and he scorned them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:21 - Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have guarded all that this man has in the wilderness, H4057 so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him; and he has returned me evil for good.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:2 - So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness H4057 of Ziph, having with him three thousand chosen men of Israel, to search for David in the wilderness H4057 of Ziph.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:3 - Saul camped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before [fn]Jeshimon, beside the road, and David was staying in the wilderness. H4057 When he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness, H4057

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:24 - But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner, and when the sun was going down, they came to the hill of Ammah, which is in front of Giah by the way of the wilderness H4057 of Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:23 - While all the country was weeping with a loud voice, all the people passed over. The king also passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over toward the way of the wilderness. H4057

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:28 - “See, I am going to wait at the fords of the wilderness H4057 until word comes from you to inform me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:2 - The king said to Ziba, “Why do you have these?” And Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine, for whoever is faint in the wilderness H4057 to drink.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:16 - “Now therefore, send quickly and tell David, saying, ‘Do not spend the night at the fords of the wilderness, H4057 but by all means cross over, or else the king and all the people who are with him will be [fn]destroyed.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:29 - honey, curds, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David and for the people who were with him, to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.” H4057

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:34 - Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell upon him and put him to death, and he was buried at his own house in the wilderness. H4057

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:18 - and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, H4057 in the land of Judah,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:4 - But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, H4057 and came and sat down under a [fn]juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O LORD, take my [fn]life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:15 - The LORD said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness H4057 of Damascus, and when you have arrived, you shall anoint Hazael king over Aram;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:8 - He said, “Which way shall we go up?” And he [fn]answered, “The way of the wilderness H4057 of Edom.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:9 - To the east he settled as far as the entrance of the wilderness H4057 from the river Euphrates, because their cattle had increased in the land of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:78

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:78 - and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, were given them, from the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness H4057 with its pasture lands, Jahzah with its pasture lands,

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