מִדְבָּר midbar

Hebrew word for “wilderness” · Strong’s H4057 · used 271 times in 257 verses

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Meaning

1) wilderness; 1a) pasture; 1b) uninhabited land, wilderness; 1c) large tracts of wilderness (around cities); 1d) wilderness (fig.)

Senses in the lexicon

• wilderness (269)
• Wilderness (of Sinai) (1)
• mouth (1)

How it is translated

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

• wilderness 246
• wilderness towards 14
• like the wilderness 3
• like wilderness 3
• wilderness of towards 2
• ¿ a wilderness 1
• more than the wilderness 1
• mouth 1

Where it is used

Also in 15 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 20 (9), Numbers 14 (8), Numbers 33 (7), Exodus 16 (6), Numbers 21 (5), Deuteronomy 1 (4), Deuteronomy 2 (4), 1 Samuel 23 (4), 1 Samuel 25 (4), Psalms 78 (4)

Forms

• במדבר 141
• מדבר 45
• המדבר 35
• ממדבר 13
• המדברה 12
• מדברה 6
• כמדבר 6
• למדבר 5
• ובמדבר 3
• וממדבר 2

Words used with it

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

• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 40
• דֶּרֶךְ derekh “way” 30
• נָסַע nasa “to set out” 21
• מִצְרַיִם mitsrayim “Egypt” 27
• סִינַי sinay “Sinai” 14
• עֲרָבָה aravah “Arabah” 15
• חָנָה chanah “to camp” 17
• מֹשֶׁה mosheh “Moses” 25
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 26
• זֶה zeh “this” 25
• יָם yam “sea” 18
• הַר har “mountain” 19

Key verses

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

• Exodus 3:1 — Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of…
• Deuteronomy 8:2 — 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…
• 2 Chronicles 20:20 — And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye…
• Psalms 63:1 — [A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.] O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for…
• Isaiah 32:15 — Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
• Isaiah 35:6 — Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
• Isaiah 40:3 — 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.
• Isaiah 50:2 — Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to…
• Isaiah 51:3 — For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD;…
• Jeremiah 2:2 — 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…
• Ezekiel 20:13 — But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even…
• Ezekiel 34:25 — 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…

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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.