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. Exodus 16:32 בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded, Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.

  2. Exodus 17:1 מִמִּדְבַּר־ mi.mid.bar- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to the commandment of Jehovah, and encamped in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.

  3. Exodus 18:5 הַמִּדְבָּ֗ר ha.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the mount of God:

  4. Exodus 19:1 מִדְבַּ֥ר mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    In the third month after the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.

  5. Exodus 19:2 מִדְבַּ֣ר mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And when they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mount.

  6. Exodus 19:2 בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And when they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mount.

  7. Exodus 23:31 וּמִמִּדְבָּ֖ר u.mi.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

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