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. 2 Chronicles 1:3 בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    So Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of Jehovah had made in the wilderness.

  2. 2 Chronicles 8:4 בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store-cities, which he built in Hamath.

  3. 2 Chronicles 20:16 מִדְבַּ֥ר mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    To-morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the ascent of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel.

  4. 2 Chronicles 20:20 לְמִדְבַּ֣ר le.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: believe in Jehovah your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.

  5. 2 Chronicles 20:24 לַמִּדְבָּ֑ר la.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And when Judah came to the watch-tower of the wilderness, they looked upon the multitude; and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none that escaped.

  6. 2 Chronicles 24:9 בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for Jehovah the tax that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.

  7. 2 Chronicles 26:10 בַּמִּדְבָּ֗ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And he built towers in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much cattle; in the lowland also, and in the plain: and he had husbandmen and vinedressers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved husbandry.

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