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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 1 / 6 (Gen 14:6–Num 14:16)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:6 - and the Horites in the hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran near the desert.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:7 - The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:20 - God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:21 - While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:24 - The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is the Anah who discovered the hot springs[fn] in the desert while he was grazing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:22 - “Don’t shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:1 - Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:18 - “The elders of Israel will listen to you. Then you and the elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:27 - The LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:1 - Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:3 - Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God, or he may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:16 - Then say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you: Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness. But until now you have not listened.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:27 - We must take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God, as he commands us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:28 - Pharaoh said, “I will let you go to offer sacrifices to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18 - So God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea.[fn] The Israelites went up out of Egypt ready for battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:20 - After leaving Sukkoth they camped at Etham on the edge of the desert.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:3 - Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:11 - They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:12 - Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22 - Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:1 - The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:2 - In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:3 - The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:10 - While Aaron was speaking to the whole Israelite community, they looked toward the desert, and there was the glory of the LORD appearing in the cloud.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:14 - When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:32 - Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Take an omer of manna and keep it for the generations to come, so they can see the bread I gave you to eat in the wilderness when I brought you out of Egypt.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:1 - The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:5 - Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, together with Moses’ sons and wife, came to him in the wilderness, where he was camped near the mountain of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:1 - On the first day of the third month after the Israelites left Egypt—on that very day—they came to the Desert of Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:2 - After they set out from Rephidim, they entered the Desert of Sinai, and Israel camped there in the desert in front of the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - “I will establish your borders from the Red Sea[fn] to the Mediterranean Sea,[fn] and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 7:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:38 - which the LORD gave Moses at Mount Sinai in the Desert of Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelites to bring their offerings to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:10 - But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD to be used for making atonement by sending it into the wilderness as a scapegoat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:21 - He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites—all their sins—and put them on the goat’s head. He shall send the goat away into the wilderness in the care of someone appointed for the task.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:22 - The goat will carry on itself all their sins to a remote place; and the man shall release it in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:1 - The LORD spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. He said:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:19 - as the LORD commanded Moses. And so he counted them in the Desert of Sinai:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:4 - Nadab and Abihu, however, died before the LORD when they made an offering with unauthorized fire before him in the Desert of Sinai. They had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:14 - The LORD said to Moses in the Desert of Sinai,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:1 - The LORD spoke to Moses in the Desert of Sinai in the first month of the second year after they came out of Egypt. He said,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - and they did so in the Desert of Sinai at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:12 - Then the Israelites set out from the Desert of Sinai and traveled from place to place until the cloud came to rest in the Desert of Paran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:31 - But Moses said, “Please do not leave us. You know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:16 - After that, the people left Hazeroth and encamped in the Desert of Paran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:3 - So at the LORD’s command Moses sent them out from the Desert of Paran. All of them were leaders of the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:21 - So they went up and explored the land from the Desert of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo Hamath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:26 - They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. There they reported to them and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:2 - All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, “If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this wilderness!

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:16 - ‘The LORD was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them on oath, so he slaughtered them in the wilderness.’

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