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. Deuteronomy 1:1 בַּמִּדְבָּ֡ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    These are the words which Moses spake unto all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-zahab.

  2. Deuteronomy 1:19 הַמִּדְבָּ֣ר ha.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

  3. Deuteronomy 1:31 וּבַמִּדְבָּר֙ u.va.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that Jehovah thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came unto this place.

  4. Deuteronomy 1:40 הַמִּדְבָּ֖רָה ha.mid.Ba.rah · A person, place or thing

    But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.

  5. Deuteronomy 2:1 הַמִּדְבָּ֙רָה֙ ha.mid.Ba.rah · A person, place or thing

    Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Jehovah spake unto me; and we compassed mount Seir many days.

  6. Deuteronomy 2:7 הַמִּדְבָּ֥ר ha.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    For Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand; he hath known thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Jehovah thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

  7. Deuteronomy 2:8 מִדְבַּ֥ר mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    So we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

  8. Deuteronomy 2:26 מִמִּדְבַּ֣ר mi.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

  9. Deuteronomy 4:43 בַּמִּדְבָּ֛ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.

  10. Deuteronomy 8:2 בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or not.

  11. Deuteronomy 8:15 בַּמִּדְבָּ֣ר׀ ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    who led thee through the great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

  12. Deuteronomy 8:16 בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end:

  13. Deuteronomy 9:7 בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Remember, forget thou not, how thou provokedst Jehovah thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou wentest forth out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah.

  14. Deuteronomy 9:28 בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land which he promised unto them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

  15. Deuteronomy 11:5 בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    and what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came unto this place;

  16. Deuteronomy 11:24 הַמִּדְבָּ֨ר ha.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be your border.

  17. Deuteronomy 29:5 בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxed old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxed old upon thy foot.

  18. Deuteronomy 32:10 מִדְבָּ֔ר mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    He found him in a desert land, And in the waste howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he cared for him, He kept him as the apple of his eye.

  19. Deuteronomy 32:51 מִדְבַּר־ mid.bar- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

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