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. Judges 1:16 מִדְבַּ֣ר mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And the children of the Kenite, Moses' brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm-trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt with the people.

  2. Judges 8:7 הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר ha.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And Gideon said, Therefore when Jehovah hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.

  3. Judges 8:16 הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר ha.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

  4. Judges 11:16 בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;

  5. Judges 11:18 בַּמִּדְבָּ֗ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they came not within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.

  6. Judges 11:22 הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר ha.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And they possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto the Jordan.

  7. Judges 20:42 הַמִּדְבָּ֔ר ha.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and they that came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst thereof.

  8. Judges 20:45 הַמִּדְבָּ֙רָה֙ ha.mid.Ba.rah · A person, place or thing

    And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them unto Gidom, and smote of them two thousand men.

  9. Judges 20:47 הַמִּדְבָּ֙רָה֙ ha.mid.Ba.rah · A person, place or thing

    But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months.

  10. 1 Samuel 4:8 בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? these are the gods that smote the Egyptians with all manner of plagues in the wilderness.

  11. 1 Samuel 13:18 הַמִּדְבָּֽרָה׃ ס ha.mid.Ba.rah · A person, place or thing

    and another company turned the way to Beth-horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looketh down upon the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

  12. 1 Samuel 17:28 בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why art thou come down? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thy heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

  13. 1 Samuel 23:14 בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ ba.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing

    And David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.

  14. 1 Samuel 23:14 בְּמִדְבַּר־ be.mid.bar- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.

  15. 1 Samuel 23:15 בְּמִדְבַּר־ be.mid.bar- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.

  16. 1 Samuel 23:24 בְּמִדְבַּ֤ר be.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.

  17. 1 Samuel 23:25 בְּמִדְבַּ֣ר be.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Saul and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

  18. 1 Samuel 23:25 מִדְבַּ֥ר mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Saul and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

  19. 1 Samuel 24:1 בְּמִדְבַּ֖ר be.mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.

  20. 1 Samuel 25:1 מִדְבַּ֥ר mid.Bar · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

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