מִדְבָּר

mid.bar · wilderness

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

English

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. 1 Samuel 4:8 בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? these are the gods that smote the Egyptians with all manner of plagues in the wilderness.

  2. 1 Samuel 13:18 הַמִּדְבָּֽרָה׃ ס ha.mid.Ba.rah · A person, place or thing

    and another company turned the way to Beth-horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looketh down upon the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

  3. 1 Samuel 17:28 בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why art thou come down? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thy heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

  4. 1 Samuel 23:14 בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.

  5. 1 Samuel 23:14 בְּמִדְבַּר־ be.mid.bar- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.

  6. 1 Samuel 23:15 בְּמִדְבַּר־ be.mid.bar- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.

  7. 1 Samuel 23:24 בְּמִדְבַּ֤ר be.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.

  8. 1 Samuel 23:25 בְּמִדְבַּ֣ר be.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Saul and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

  9. 1 Samuel 23:25 מִדְבַּ֥ר mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Saul and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

  10. 1 Samuel 24:1 בְּמִדְבַּ֖ר be.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.

  11. 1 Samuel 25:1 מִדְבַּ֥ר mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

  12. 1 Samuel 25:4 בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

  13. 1 Samuel 25:14 מֵֽהַמִּדְבָּ֛ר me.ha.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed at them.

  14. 1 Samuel 25:21 בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good.

  15. 1 Samuel 26:2 מִדְבַּר־ mid.bar- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

  16. 1 Samuel 26:2 בְּמִדְבַּר־ be.mid.bar- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

  17. 1 Samuel 26:3 בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.

  18. 1 Samuel 26:3 הַמִּדְבָּֽרָה׃ ha.mid.Ba.rah · A person, place or thing

    And Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.

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