מִדְבָּר

mid.bar · wilderness

Hebrew · Strong's H4057 · Noun · Sounds like: mid-bawr' · 271 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • wilderness H4057B 269
  • mouth H4057A 1
  • Wilderness (of Sinai) H4057G 1

Strong's dictionary

from דָבַר 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.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[מִדְבָּר] n.m. mouth, as organ of speech, Ct 4:3
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
מִדְבָר 270 n.m. wilderness
1. tracts of land, used for the pasturage of flocks and herds
2. uninhabited land
3. large tracts of such land bearing various names, in certain districts of which there might be towns and cities
4. fig.

Every occurrence

  1. Genesis 14:6 הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃ ha.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

  2. Genesis 16:7 בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And the angel of Jehovah found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

  3. Genesis 21:14 בְּמִדְבַּ֖ר be.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

  4. Genesis 21:20 בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.

  5. Genesis 21:21 בְּמִדְבַּ֣ר be.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

  6. Genesis 36:24 בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; this is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.

  7. Genesis 37:22 בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood; cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him: that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

  8. Exodus 3:1 הַמִּדְבָּ֔ר ha.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb.

  9. Exodus 3:18 בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, hath met with us: and now let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God.

  10. Exodus 4:27 הַמִּדְבָּ֑רָה ha.mid.Ba.rah · A person, place or thing

    And Jehovah said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mountain of God, and kissed him.

  11. Exodus 5:1 בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.

  12. Exodus 5:3 בַּמִּדְבָּ֗ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice unto Jehovah our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.

  13. Exodus 7:16 בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And thou shalt say unto him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou hast not hearkened.

  14. Exodus 8:27 בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, as he shall command us.

  15. Exodus 8:28 בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to Jehovah your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: entreat for me.

  16. Exodus 13:18 הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר ha.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    but God led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.

  17. Exodus 13:20 הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃ ha.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

  18. Exodus 14:3 הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃ ha.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

  19. Exodus 14:11 בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to bring us forth out of Egypt?

  20. Exodus 14:12 בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Is not this the word that we spake unto thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

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