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.

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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. Isaiah 14:17 כַּמִּדְבָּ֖ר ka.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home?

  2. Isaiah 16:1 מִדְבָּ֑רָה mid.Ba.rah · A person, place or thing

    Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

  3. Isaiah 16:8 מִדְבָּ֑ר mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches thereof, which reached even unto Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.

  4. Isaiah 21:1 מִדְבַּר־ mid.bar- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land.

  5. Isaiah 21:1 מִמִּדְבָּ֣ר mi.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land.

  6. Isaiah 27:10 כַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר ka.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

  7. Isaiah 32:15 מִדְבָּר֙ mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest.

  8. Isaiah 32:16 בַּמִּדְבָּ֖ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.

  9. Isaiah 35:1 מִדְבָּ֖ר mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

  10. Isaiah 35:6 בַמִּדְבָּר֙ va.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

  11. Isaiah 40:3 בַּמִּדְבָּ֕ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    The voice of one that crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; make level in the desert a highway for our God.

  12. Isaiah 41:18 מִדְבָּר֙ mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

  13. Isaiah 41:19 בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together:

  14. Isaiah 42:11 מִדְבָּר֙ mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

  15. Isaiah 43:19 בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

  16. Isaiah 43:20 בַמִּדְבָּ֜ר va.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    The beasts of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,

  17. Isaiah 50:2 מִדְבָּ֔ר mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

  18. Isaiah 51:3 מִדְבָּרָהּ֙ mid.ba.Rah · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    For Jehovah hath comforted Zion; he hath comforted all her waste places, and hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

  19. Isaiah 63:13 בַּמִּדְבָּ֖ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    that led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they stumbled not?

  20. Isaiah 64:10 מִדְבָּ֑ר mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

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