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. Numbers 33:8 הַמִּדְבָּ֑רָה ha.mid.Ba.rah · A person, place or thing

    And they journeyed from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and they went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.

  2. Numbers 33:8 בְּמִדְבַּ֣ר be.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And they journeyed from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and they went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.

  3. Numbers 33:11 בְּמִדְבַּר־ be.mid.bar- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And they journeyed from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.

  4. Numbers 33:12 מִמִּדְבַּר־ mi.mid.bar- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.

  5. Numbers 33:15 בְּמִדְבַּ֥ר be.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And they journeyed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.

  6. Numbers 33:16 מִמִּדְבַּ֣ר mi.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth-hattaavah.

  7. Numbers 33:36 בְמִדְבַּר־ ve.mid.bar- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And they journeyed from Ezion-geber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin (the same is Kadesh).

  8. Numbers 34:3 מִמִּדְבַּר־ mi.mid.bar- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward;

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