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. Jeremiah 2:2 בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, I remember for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals; how thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

  2. Jeremiah 2:6 בַּמִּדְבָּ֗ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Neither said they, Where is Jehovah that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man dwelt?

  3. Jeremiah 2:24 מִדְבָּ֗ר mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    a wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

  4. Jeremiah 2:31 הֲמִדְבָּ֤ר ha.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? or a land of thick darkness? wherefore say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more unto thee?

  5. Jeremiah 3:2 בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

  6. Jeremiah 4:11 בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;

  7. Jeremiah 4:26 הַמִּדְבָּ֑ר ha.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of Jehovah, and before his fierce anger.

  8. Jeremiah 9:2 בַמִּדְבָּ֗ר va.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

  9. Jeremiah 9:10 מִדְבָּר֙ mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passeth through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts are fled, they are gone.

  10. Jeremiah 9:12 כַמִּדְבָּ֖ר kha.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it? wherefore is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?

  11. Jeremiah 9:26 בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their hair cut off, that dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.

  12. Jeremiah 12:10 לְמִדְבַּ֥ר le.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

  13. Jeremiah 12:12 בַּמִּדְבָּ֗ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Destroyers are come upon all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Jehovah devoureth from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh hath peace.

  14. Jeremiah 13:24 מִדְבָּֽר׃ mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passeth away, by the wind of the wilderness.

  15. Jeremiah 17:6 בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

  16. Jeremiah 22:6 מִדְבָּ֔ר mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    For thus saith Jehovah concerning the house of the king of Judah: Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon; yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

  17. Jeremiah 23:10 מִדְבָּ֑ר mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil, and their might is not right;

  18. Jeremiah 25:24 בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the wilderness;

  19. Jeremiah 31:2 בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Thus saith Jehovah, The people that were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

  20. Jeremiah 48:6 בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

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