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. Psalms 78:15 בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

  2. Psalms 78:19 בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Yea, they spake against God; They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

  3. Psalms 78:40 בַמִּדְבָּ֑ר va.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!

  4. Psalms 78:52 בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

  5. Psalms 95:8 בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness;

  6. Psalms 102:6 מִדְבָּ֑ר mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.

  7. Psalms 106:9 כַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ ka.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up: So he led them through the depths, as through a wilderness.

  8. Psalms 106:14 בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert.

  9. Psalms 106:26 בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Therefore he sware unto them, That he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

  10. Psalms 107:4 בַ֭מִּדְבָּר Va.mid.bor · A person, place or thing

    They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; They found no city of habitation.

  11. Psalms 107:33 לְמִדְבָּ֑ר le.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    He turneth rivers into a wilderness, And watersprings into a thirsty ground;

  12. Psalms 107:35 מִ֭דְבָּר Mid.bor · A person, place or thing

    He turneth a wilderness into a pool of water, And a dry land into watersprings.

  13. Psalms 136:16 בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    To him that led his people through the wilderness; For his lovingkindness endureth for ever:

  14. Proverbs 21:19 מִדְבָּ֑ר mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

  15. Song of Solomon 3:6 הַמִּדְבָּ֔ר ha.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the merchant?

  16. Song of Solomon 4:3 וּמִדְבָּרֵ֖יךְ u.mid.ba.Reikh · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, And thy mouth is comely. Thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate Behind thy veil.

  17. Song of Solomon 8:5 הַמִּדְבָּ֔ר ha.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple-tree I awakened thee: There thy mother was in travail with thee, There was she in travail that brought thee forth.

  18. 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?

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

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