יְשִׁימוֹן yeshimon

Hebrew word for “wilderness” · Strong’s H3452 · used 13 times in 13 verses

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Meaning

waste, wilderness, desert, desolate place

Senses in the lexicon

• wilderness (9)
• Jeshimon (4)

How it is translated

Glosses given for yeshimon in context, with how often each is used:

• desolate place 9
• jeshimon 4

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Samuel 23 (2), 1 Samuel 26 (2), Isaiah 43 (2), Numbers 21 (1), Numbers 23 (1), Deuteronomy 32 (1), Psalms 68 (1), Psalms 78 (1), Psalms 106 (1), Psalms 107 (1)

Forms

• הישׁימן 4
• בישׁימון 4
• הישׁימון 2
• ישׁמן 1
• בישׁמון 1
• בישׁימן 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with yeshimon more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מִדְבָּר midbar “wilderness” 8
• חֲכִילָה chakhilah “Hachilah” 3
• זִיפִי ziphi “Ziphite” 2
• גִּבְעָה givah “hill” 3
• שָׁאוּל shaul “Saul” 4
• שָׁקַף shaqaph “to look” 2
• דָּוִד david “David” 4
• גִּבְעָה givah “Gibeah” 2
• סָתַר satar “to hide” 2
• דֶּרֶךְ derekh “way” 3
• נָהָר nahar “river” 2
• יָמִין yamin “right” 2

Key verses

The verses using yeshimon that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Numbers 21:20 — And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
• Numbers 23:28 — And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
• Deuteronomy 32:10 — He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
• 1 Samuel 23:19 — Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the…
• 1 Samuel 23:24 — And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.
• 1 Samuel 26:1 — And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?
• Psalms 68:7 — O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
• Psalms 78:40 — How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
• Psalms 106:14 — But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
• Psalms 107:4 — They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
• Isaiah 43:19 — 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.
• Isaiah 43:20 — The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.