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. Job 1:19 הַמִּדְבָּ֗ר ha.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

  2. Job 24:5 בַּֽמִּדְבָּ֗ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness yieldeth them bread for their children.

  3. Job 38:26 מִ֝דְבָּ֗ר mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; On the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

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