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. Genesis 14:6 הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃ ha.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

  2. Genesis 16:7 בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And the angel of Jehovah found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

  3. Genesis 21:14 בְּמִדְבַּ֖ר be.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

  4. Genesis 21:20 בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.

  5. Genesis 21:21 בְּמִדְבַּ֣ר be.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

  6. Genesis 36:24 בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; this is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.

  7. Genesis 37:22 בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood; cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him: that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

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