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Wilderness
Featured studies
6 results- StudyNumbers: the Study GuideTwo censuses bracket a generation's unbelief and a generation's hope: the bronze serpent, Balaam's Star out of Jacob, and the Aaronic Blessing's oldest words.
- StudyThe Rock in the WildernessA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe Temptation in the Wilderness — Matthew 4A featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe WildernessA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe Bronze SerpentNumbers 21 and its messianic fulfillment in John 3: why Jesus identifies himself with the lifted serpent.
Verses
229 results- VerseJoshua 15:61These were in the wilderness:
- Verse1 Kings 9:18Baalath, and Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah,
- VersePsalms 29:8The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh.
- VerseLuke 5:16Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray.
- VerseMark 1:12At once the Spirit drove Jesus into the wilderness,
Places
4 results- PlaceEphraimThe town near the wilderness where Jesus withdrew with His disciples before the last Passover (John 11:54).
- PlaceTekoaJudean town on the wilderness edge south of Bethlehem; home of Amos the herdman (Amos 1:1) and the wise woman of 2 Samuel 14.
- PlaceKadesh-BarneaThe oasis on Canaan's doorstep where the spies returned, the people refused, and a generation turned back into forty years of wilderness.
- PlaceMount Sinai (Horeb)The mountain of God in the wilderness where the bush burned, the Law was given in fire and cloud, and the covenant was cut; Elijah later heard the still small voice here.
Words (Strong's)
9 results- WordH776 אֶרֶץ · ʼerets (Hebrew)the earth (at large, or partitively a land). The Hebrew word stands 2,504 times in the original text.
- WordH3452 יְשִׁימוֹן · yᵉshîymôwn (Hebrew)a desolation. The Hebrew word stands 13 times in the original text.
- WordH4057 מִדְבָּר · midbâr (Hebrew)a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven). The Hebrew word stands 270 times in the original text.
- WordH6723 צִיָּה · tsîyâh (Hebrew)aridity. The Hebrew word stands 16 times in the original text.
- WordG2048 ἔρημος · érēmos (Greek)lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually as a noun, being implied). The Greek word stands 48 times in the original text.
Themes
2 results- ThemeLoveThe Old Testament's word for it is *chesed* — not a feeling but a covenant posture: steadfast, loyal, obligated love that keeps showing up whether or not it is deserved. God's…
- ThemeWorshipScripture's worship vocabulary carries two roots held together: *shachah* (to bow down, prostrate) and *abad* (to serve, to labor for). *Shachah* is first rendered "worship" at…
Topics
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1 resultVoices
3 results- VoiceEucherius of LyonEucherius was a Gallo-Roman aristocrat of senatorial rank, married to a woman named Galla, with two sons and two daughters. Sometime in the 410s or 420s he took his whole…
- VoiceMacarius of EgyptMacarius was born in Upper Egypt about 300. He worked as a camel driver hauling natron from the salt lakes, which is how he came to know the empty country west of the Nile…
- VoiceCosmas of MaiumaCosmas was, by the tradition preserved in the Greek church, an orphan taken into the household of John of Damascus's father in Syria and raised alongside John as a brother. The…
Apocrypha (study resources)
27 results- Study resourceSirach 43:21It devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the grass as fire.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 2:29Then many that sought after justice and judgment went down into the wilderness, to dwell there:
- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 11:2They went through the wilderness that was not inhabited, and pitched tents in places where there lay no way.
- Study resourceSirach 13:19As the wild ass is the lion’s prey in the wilderness: so the rich eat up the poor.
- Study resource2 Esdras 1:18Saying, Why hast thou brought us into this wilderness to kill us? it had been better for us to have served the Egyptians, than to die in this wilderness.
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H776אֶרֶץ ʼerets — the earth (at large, or partitively a land)H3452יְשִׁימוֹן yᵉshîymôwn — a desolationH4057מִדְבָּר midbâr — a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven)H6723צִיָּה tsîyâh — aridityG2048ἔρημος érēmos — lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually
as a noun, being implied)H8414תֹּהוּ tôhûw — a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert