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. Amos 2:10 בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

  2. Amos 5:25 בַמִּדְבָּ֛ר va.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

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