Strong's Lexicon

H4057

H4057 — מִדבָּר

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewmidbarnoun mascOccurrences: 271TWOT: 399k

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H4057
Word:מִדבָּר
Part of Speech:noun masc
Etymology:from H1696 in the sense of driving
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:271
Transliteration:midbar
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:mid-bawr'
Meaning:1. a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven) 2. (by implication) a desert 3. (also) speech (including its organs)
KJV Renderings:desert, south, speech, wilderness.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB1829

I. [מִדְבָּר] noun masculine mouth, as organ of speech, — מִדְבָּרֵךְ נָאוֶה thy mouth is lovely Song 4:3 || שִׁפְתוֺתַיִךְ, ᵐ5 λαλιά, Jerome eloquium.


BDB1830

II. מִדְבָּר270 noun masculine wildernessDeut 32:10 +; with ה locative מִדְבָּ֫רָה Josh 18:12 + 15 t.; construct Exod 15:22 +; מִדְבַּ֫רָה 1Kgs 19:15 suffix מִדְבָּרָהּ Isa 51:3

1. tracts of land, used for the pasturage of flocks and herds, דָּֽשְׁאוּ נְאוֺת מִדְבָּר the pastures of the wilderness put forth green grass Joel 2:22 ׳ מ ׳ יִרְעֲפוּ נ the pastures of the wilderness drop (fertility) Ps 65:13 ׳ מ ׳ יָָֽבְשׁוּ נ are dried up Jer 23:10, compare Jer 9:9; Joel 1:19; Joel 1:20.
2. uninhabited land, מִדְבָּר לֹאאָֿדָם בּוֺ wilderness in which is no man Job 38:26 the abode of pelicans Ps 102:7 wild asses Job 24:5; Jer 2:24 jackals Mal 1:3 ostriches Lam 4:3 מִייִֿתְּנֵנִי בַמִּדְבָּר מְלוֺן אֹרְחִים וְֶ˜אעֶזְבָה אֶתעַֿמִּי O that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfarers, that I might leave my people Jer 9:1 טוֺב שֶׁבֶת בְּאֶרֶץ מִדְבָּר better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious woman Prov 21:19 בְּאֶרֶץ מִדְבָּר וּבְתֹהוּ יְלֵל יְשִׁמֹן in a desert land, and in a waste howling wilderness Deut 32:10.
3. large tracts of such land bearing various names, in certain districts of which there might be towns and cities: יִשְׂאוּ מִדְבָּר וְעָרָיו חֲצֵרִים תֵּשֵׁב קֵדָר let the wilderness and its cities lift up (their voice), the villages that Kedar doth inhabit Isa 42:11. There were six cities in the wilderness of Judah Josh 15:61; Josh 15:62 הַמִּדְבָּר usually = wilderness of the wanderings Gen 14:6; Num 14:16; Num 14:29; Num 14:32; Num 14:33 (twice in verse) +, or the great Arabian desert Judg 11:22 +; but may also refer to any other Song 3:6; Song 8:5. Special tracts — (a) of the wilderness of the wandering were שׁוּר ׳ מ Exod 15:22, סין Exod 16:1 +, סיני Exod 19:1 +, פארן Num 13:26 +, צן Num 20:1 +, קדשׁ Ps 29:8, אתם Num 33:8 (b) in West Palestine יהודה ׳ מ Judg 1:16; Ps 63:1 compare Josh 15:61, מעוֺן 1Sam 23:24; 1Sam 23:25, זיף 1Sam 23:15; 1Sam 26:2, באר שׁבע Gen 21:14, עין גדי 1Sam 24:2, תקוע 2Chr 20:20 , ירואל 2Chr 20:16 , גבעון 2Sam 2:24 (c) in Eastern Palestine מואב Deut 2:8, אדום 2Kgs 3:8, קדמות Deut 2:26.
4. figurative וְשַׂמְתִּיהָ כַמִּדְבָּר וְשַׁתִּהָ כְּאֶרֶץ צִיָּה and (lest I) make her as a wilderness and set her like a dry land Hos 2:5 הֲמִדְבָּר הָיִיתִי לְיִשְׂרָאֵל have I been a wilderness to Israel ? Jer 2:31.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

מדבר (mid-b)

Exodus 8:1

KJV: And the Lord spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
EHCC: to the backside of the desert,

Exodus 4:27

KJV: And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.
EHCC: Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.

Exodus 5:18

KJV: Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
EHCC: סת.[ a feast unto me in the wilderness,

Exodus 7:16

KJV: And thou shalt say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.
EHCC: they may serve me in the wilderness:

Exodus 8:27

KJV: We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he shall command us.
EHCC: (23). three days’ journey into the wilderness,

Exodus 18:18

KJV: Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.Thou wilt…: Heb. Fading thou wilt fade
EHCC: the way of the wilderness of the Red sea:

Exodus 14:3

KJV: For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
EHCC: the wilderness hath shut them in.

Exodus 15:22

KJV: So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
EHCC: they went out into the wilderness of

Exodus 17:1

KJV: And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the Lord, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
EHCC: journeyed Jrom the wilderness of Sin,

Exodus 19:1

KJV: In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
EHCC: came they (into) the wilderness of Sinai.

Exodus 23:31

KJV: And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
EHCC: and from the desert unto the river:

Leviticus 7:38

KJV: Which the Lord commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai.
EHCC: in the wilderness of Sinai. (

Leviticus 16:10

KJV: But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
EHCC: for a scapegoat into the wilderness,

Leviticus 3:4

KJV: And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.caul…: or, midriff over the liver, and over the kidneys
EHCC: before the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai, |

Leviticus 9:1

KJV: And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;
EHCC: unto Moses in the wilderness of Sing,

Leviticus 10:19

KJV: And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord; and such things have befallen me: and if I had eaten the sin offering to day, should it have been accepted in the sight of the Lord?
EHCC: journeys out of the ne han of סף |

Leviticus 12:16

EHCC: pitched in the wilderness of Paran.

Leviticus 13:3

KJV: And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.
EHCC: sent them from the wilderness of |

Leviticus 14:2

KJV: This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
EHCC: we had died in this wilderness!

Leviticus 22:1

KJV: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
EHCC: n Egypt and in the wilderness,

Leviticus 15:32

KJV: This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;
EHCC: were im the wilderness,

Leviticus 16:13

KJV: And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:
EHCC: to kill us in the wilderness,

Leviticus 20:1

KJV: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
EHCC: into the desert of Zin in the first

Leviticus 21:5

KJV: They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
EHCC: out of Egypt to die in the wilderscsr?

Leviticus 24:1

KJV: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
EHCC: set his face toward the wildernas.

Leviticus 26:64

EHCC: of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

Leviticus 27:3

KJV: And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
EHCC: Our father died tn the wilderness,

Leviticus 32:13

EHCC: made them wander in the wt

Leviticus 33:6

EHCC: which (is) in the edge of the wilderse:.

Leviticus 84:8

EHCC: from the wilderness of Zin

Deuteronomy 1:1

KJV: These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.the Red…: or, Zuph
EHCC: Jordan in the wilderness,

Deuteronomy 2:1

KJV: Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the Lord spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.
EHCC: took our journey into the wildersas

Deuteronomy 4:43

KJV: Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.
EHCC: Bezer in the wilderness,

Deuteronomy 8:2

KJV: And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
EHCC: these forty years in the wilderness,

Deuteronomy 9:7

KJV: Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the Lord.
EHCC: thy God to wrath in the wilderness:

Deuteronomy 29:5

KJV: And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
EHCC: (4)-Jed you forty years in the wildereat:

Deuteronomy 82:10

EHCC: He found him in a desert land,

Joshua 1:4

KJV: From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
EHCC: From the wilderness and this Lebancs

Joshua 5:4

KJV: And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
EHCC: 0164 in the wilderness by the way,

Joshua 8:15

KJV: And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
EHCC: fled by the way of the wilderness.

Joshua 14:10

KJV: And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.wandered: Heb. walked
EHCC: wandered in the wilderness:

Joshua 15:1

KJV: This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.
EHCC: the wilderness of Zin southward

Joshua 16:1

KJV: And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Beth–el,fell: Heb. went forth
EHCC: to the wilderness that goeth up

Joshua 18:12

KJV: And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Beth–aven.
EHCC: af the wilderness of Beth-aven-

Joshua 20:8

KJV: And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
EHCC: Berer in the wildrrness -

Judges 1:16

KJV: And the children of the Kenite, Moses’ father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.
EHCC: ום Judah into the wilderness of Judah.

Judges 8:7

KJV: And Gideon said, Therefore when the Lord hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.tear: Heb. thresh
EHCC: with the thorns of the wilderness

1 Samuel 4:8

KJV: 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 the plagues in the wilderness.
EHCC: with all the plagues in the wilderness.

1 Samuel 17:16

KJV: And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
EHCC: in the plains of the wilderness,

1 Kings 2:34

KJV: So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
EHCC: in his own house in the wilderness.

2 Kings 3:8

KJV: And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom.
EHCC: The way through the wilderness of Edom.

1 Chronicles 5:9

KJV: And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
EHCC: the entering in of the wilderness

Nehemiah 9:19

KJV: Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.
EHCC: forsookest them not in the wilderness :

Psalms 29:8

KJV: The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness; the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
EHCC: the Lord shaketh the wilderness; the Lord

Proverbs 21:19

KJV: It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.in…: Heb. in the land of the desert
EHCC: better to dwell in the wilderness, (marg.

Song of Songs 3:6

KJV: Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
EHCC: that cometh out of the wilderness

Isaiah 14:17

KJV: That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?opened…: or, did not let his prisoners loose homeward?
EHCC: meade the world us a wilderness,

Isaiah 40:3

KJV: The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
EHCC: of him that crieth in the wilderness, |

Isaiah 41:18

KJV: I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
EHCC: make the ee ee of water,

Isaiah 19:1

KJV: The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
EHCC: will plant in the wii ess י

Isaiah 42:11

KJV: Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
EHCC: Let the wilderness and the cities |

Isaiah 43:19

KJV: Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
EHCC: make a way in the wilderness,

Isaiah 20:1

KJV: In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
EHCC: give waters in the wilderness, |

Isaiah 50:9

KJV: Behold, the Lord God will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
EHCC: 1 make the rivers a wilderness: .

Isaiah 63:13

KJV: That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
EHCC: 43 an horse ix the wilderness,

Isaiah 64:10

KJV: Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
EHCC: (9). Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion |

Jeremiah 2:2

KJV: Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.thee: or, for thy sake
EHCC: wentest after me in the wilderness, |

Jeremiah 3:2

KJV: Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
EHCC: 8 the Arabian in the wilderness ; .

Jeremiah 4:11

KJV: At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
EHCC: the high places in the wilderness

Jeremiah 9:2

KJV: 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 be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
EHCC: (1). מס that 1 had in the wilderness

Jeremiah 12:10

KJV: Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.pleasant…: Heb. portion of desire
EHCC: pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. .

Jeremiah 18:24

EHCC: by the wind of the wilderness.

Jeremiah 17:6

KJV: 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, in a salt land and not inhabited.
EHCC: ees places ix the wilderness,

Jeremiah 22:6

KJV: For thus saith the Lord unto the king’s house 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.
EHCC: 1 make thee a wilderness,

Jeremiah 23:10

KJV: For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.swearing: or, cursingcourse: or, violence
EHCC: the pleasant places of the wilderness

Jeremiah 25:34

KJV: Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.the days…: Heb. your days for slaughtera pleasant…: Heb. a vessel of desire
EHCC: people that dwell in the desert,

Jeremiah 31:2

KJV: Thus saith the Lord, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
EHCC: found grace in the wildernces ;

Jeremiah 48:6

KJV: Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.the heath: or, a naked tree
EHCC: be like the heath in the wilderness.

Jeremiah 50:12

KJV: Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
EHCC: of the nations (shall be) a wilderness,

Lamentations 4:3

KJV: Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.sea…: or, sea calves
EHCC: like the ostriches in the wilderness,

Lamentations 5:9

KJV: We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
EHCC: the sword of the wilderness.

Ezekiel 6:14

KJV: So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the Lord.more…: or, desolate from the wilderness
EHCC: more desolate than the wilderness

Ezekiel 19:13

KJV: And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
EHCC: she (is) planted in the wilderness,

Ezekiel 20:10

KJV: Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
EHCC: brought them into the wilderness.

Ezekiel 29:42

EHCC: Sabeans from the wilderness,

Ezekiel 29:5

KJV: And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.open…: Heb. face of the field
EHCC: leave thee (thrown) into the wilderness,

Ezekiel 34:25

KJV: And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
EHCC: dwell safely in the wilderness,

Hosea 2:3

KJV: Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
EHCC: (5).make her as a wilderness,

Hosea 9:10

KJV: I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal–peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
EHCC: like grapes in the wilderness ; ,

Hosea 13:6

KJV: According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
EHCC: 1 did know thee in the wilderness,

Joel 1:19

KJV: O Lord, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.pastures: or, habitations
EHCC: 20. the pastures of the wilderness,

Joel 8:19

EHCC: (4:19). Edom shall bea desolate wilderness,

Amos 2:19

EHCC: forty years through the wilderness,

Amos 5:25

KJV: Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
EHCC: sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness

Zephaniah 2:13

KJV: And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
EHCC: dry like a wilderness.

Malachi 1:8

KJV: And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the Lord of hosts.for: Heb. to
EHCC: the dragons of the wilderness. ,
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