Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4057
מִדְבָּר
midbarmid-bawr'
mouth; wilderness; Wilderness (of Sinai)
270 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: midbâr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4057is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 27 of 39Old Testament books
- 86spellings
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4057
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
The King James renders it: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
midbar is rendered "mouth; wilderness; Wilderness (of Sinai)". It stands 270 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-seven books.
- Forty-eight of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "mouth".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 14:6and the Horites in the area of Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert.
- The Greek text spells it eighty-six different ways.
The first use
and the Horites in the area of Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert.
Genesis 14:6הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in twenty-seven of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
The word carries three meanings: mouth, and wilderness, and Wilderness (of Sinai).
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| mouthStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 14:6and the Horites in the area of Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert. |
| wildernessStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| Wilderness (of Sinai)Strong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- in the wilderness116
- the wilderness34
- in wilderness of24
- wilderness of20
- wilderness16
- the wilderness towards12
- a wilderness8
- from wilderness of8
- like the wilderness6
- from wilderness4
- and in the wilderness3
- wilderness towards3
and 12 more, 270 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 270, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
86 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר27
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃21
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר18
- בַּמִּדְבָּר֙9
- מִדְבַּ֥ר9
- בְּמִדְבַּ֥ר8
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֖ר8
- הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃8
- מִדְבָּ֑ר8
- מִדְבַּר־8
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֗ר7
- הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר7
and 74 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular123HRd/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)37HR/Ncmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular34HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular24HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)21HNcmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)12HTd/Ncmsa/Sd
- preposition + noun · masculine singular4HR/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular3HC/Rd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)3HNcmsa/Sd
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular2HC/R/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + directional ending (“toward”)2HNcmsc/Sd
- preposition + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HR/Td/Ncmsa
Genesis
seven uses
and the Horites in the area of Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert.
- הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃hamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
- בְּמִדְבַּ֖רbemidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
And God was with the boy, and he grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֔רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
- בְּמִדְבַּ֣רbemidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness as he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.)
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֔רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
“Do not shed his blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this so that he could rescue Joseph from their hands and return him to his father.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֔רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Exodus
twenty-seven uses
Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֔רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֔רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Meanwhile, the LORD had said to Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֑רָהhamidbarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: the wilderness towards
After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
“The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֗רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Then say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me in the wilderness. But you have not listened until now.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
We must make a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He commands us.”
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Pharaoh answered, “I will let you go and sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me.”
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֔רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
So God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt arrayed for battle.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֖רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness.
- הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃hamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.’
- הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃hamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days they walked in the desert without finding water.
- מִדְבַּר־midbar-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wilderness of
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֖רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
On the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt, the whole congregation of Israel set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai.
- מִדְבַּר־midbar-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wilderness of
And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron.
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”
- הַמִּדְבָּ֣רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
And as Aaron was speaking to the whole congregation of Israel, they looked toward the desert, and there in a cloud the glory of the LORD appeared.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֑רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
When the layer of dew had evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground.
- הַמִּדְבָּר֙hamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֔רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Then the whole congregation of Israel left the Desert of Sin, moving from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
- מִמִּדְבַּר־mimidbar-preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from wilderness of
Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, along with Moses’ wife and sons, came to him in the desert, where he was encamped at the mountain of God.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֗רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.
- מִדְבַּ֥רmidbarnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wilderness of
After they had set out from Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain.
- מִדְבַּ֣רmidbarnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wilderness of
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.
- וּמִמִּדְבָּ֖רumimidbarconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and from wilderness
Leviticus
four uses
which the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai on the day He commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai.
- בְּמִדְבַּ֥רbemidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD to make atonement by sending it into the wilderness as the scapegoat.
- הַמִּדְבָּֽרָה׃hamidbarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: the wilderness towards
Then he is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man appointed for the task.
- הַמִּדְבָּֽרָה׃hamidbarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: the wilderness towards
The goat will carry on itself all their iniquities into a solitary place, and the man will release it into the wilderness.
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Numbers
forty-eight uses
On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai. He said:
- בְּמִדְבַּ֥רbemidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
just as the LORD had commanded Moses. So Moses numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai:
- בְּמִדְבַּ֥רbemidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
Nadab and Abihu, however, died in the presence of the LORD when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai. And since they had no sons, only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.
- בְּמִדְבַּ֣רbemidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying,
- בְּמִדְבַּ֥רbemidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:
- בְמִדְבַּר־vemidbar-preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
and they did so in the Wilderness of Sinai, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- בְּמִדְבַּ֣רbemidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.
- מִמִּדְבַּ֣רmimidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from wilderness of
- בְּמִדְבַּ֥רbemidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
“Please do not leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֔רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
After that, the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.
- בְּמִדְבַּ֥רbemidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
So at the consent of the LORD, Moses sent them out from the Wilderness of Paran. All the men were leaders of the Israelites,
- מִמִּדְבַּ֥רmimidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from wilderness of
So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.
- מִמִּדְבַּר־mimidbar-preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from wilderness of
and they went back to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.
- מִדְבַּ֥רmidbarnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wilderness of
All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֥רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
‘Because the LORD was unable to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
- וּבַמִּדְבָּ֑רuvamidbarconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and in the wilderness
Now since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”
- הַמִּדְבָּ֖רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֣רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֥רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
- בַּמִּדְבָּר֙bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֥רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over us?
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.
- מִדְבַּר־midbar-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wilderness of
Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?
- הַמִּדְבָּ֖רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness opposite Moab to the east.
- בַּמִּדְבָּר֙bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
From there they moved on and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that extends into the Amorite territory. Now the Arnon is the border between the Moabites and the Amorites.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֔רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
The princes dug the well; the nobles of the people hollowed it out with their scepters and with their staffs.” From the wilderness the Israelites went on to Mattanah,
- וּמִמִּדְבָּ֖רumimidbarconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and from wilderness
But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. Instead, he gathered his whole army and went out to confront Israel in the wilderness. When he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֔רָהhamidbarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: the wilderness towards
And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not resort to sorcery as on previous occasions, but he turned his face toward the wilderness.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֖רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
- בְּמִדְבַּ֥רbemidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
“Our father died in the wilderness, but he was not among the followers of Korah who gathered together against the LORD. Instead, he died because of his own sin, and he had no sons.
- בַּמִּדְבָּר֒bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
for when the congregation contended in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight regarding the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah in Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin.
- בְּמִדְבַּר־bemidbar-preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
- מִדְבַּר־midbar-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wilderness of
The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation who had done evil in His sight was gone.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֔רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.”
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness.
- הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃hamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
They set out from Pi-hahiroth and crossed through the sea, into the wilderness, and they journeyed three days into the Wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֑רָהhamidbarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: the wilderness towards
- בְּמִדְבַּ֣רbemidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
They set out from the Red Sea and camped in the Desert of Sin.
- בְּמִדְבַּר־bemidbar-preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
They set out from the Desert of Sin and camped at Dophkah.
- מִמִּדְבַּר־mimidbar-preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from wilderness of
They set out from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai.
- בְּמִדְבַּ֥רbemidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
They set out from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.
- מִמִּדְבַּ֣רmimidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from wilderness of
They set out from Ezion-geber and camped at Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.
- בְמִדְבַּר־vemidbar-preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
Your southern border will extend from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. On the east, your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea,
- מִמִּדְבַּר־mimidbar-preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from wilderness of
Deuteronomy
nineteen uses
These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—in the Arabah opposite Suph—between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֡רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
And just as the LORD our God had commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites, through all the vast and terrifying wilderness you have seen. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,
- הַמִּדְבָּ֣רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”
- וּבַמִּדְבָּר֙uvamidbarconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and in the wilderness
But you are to turn back and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”
- הַמִּדְבָּ֖רָהhamidbarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: the wilderness towards
Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the LORD had instructed me, and for many days we wandered around Mount Seir.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֙רָה֙hamidbarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: the wilderness towards
Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֥רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
So we passed by our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned away from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber, and traveled along the road of the Wilderness of Moab.
- מִדְבַּ֥רmidbarnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wilderness of
So from the Wilderness of Kedemoth I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon, saying,
- מִמִּדְבַּ֣רmimidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from wilderness of
Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau belonging to the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead belonging to the Gadites, or Golan in Bashan belonging to the Manassites.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֛רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֣ר׀bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֔רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Otherwise, those in the land from which You brought us out will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
what He did for you in the wilderness until you reached this place;
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֨רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
- מִדְבָּ֔רmidbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: wilderness
For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.
- מִדְבַּר־midbar-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wilderness of
Joshua
fifteen uses
Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great River Euphrates—all the land of the Hittites—and west as far as the Great Sea.
- מֵהַמִּדְבָּר֩mehamidbarpreposition + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: from the wilderness
Now this is why Joshua circumcised them: All those who came out of Egypt—all the men of war—had died on the journey in the wilderness after they had left Egypt.
- בַמִּדְבָּר֙vamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Though all who had come out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness on the journey from Egypt had been circumcised.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֥רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- בַּמִּדְבָּר֒bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Joshua and all Israel let themselves be beaten back before them, and they fled toward the wilderness.
- הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃hamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
When the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now became the pursuers.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֔רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had pursued them into the field and wilderness, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and put it to the sword as well.
- בַּמִּדְבָּר֙bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
the hill country, the foothills, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev—the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites):
- וּבַמִּדְבָּ֖רuvamidbarconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and in the wilderness
Now behold, as the LORD promised, He has kept me alive these forty-five years since He spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old,
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Now the allotment for the clans of the tribe of Judah extended to the border of Edom, to the Wilderness of Zin at the extreme southern boundary:
- מִדְבַּר־midbar-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wilderness of
These were in the wilderness:
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
The allotment for the descendants of Joseph extended from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho on the east, through the wilderness that goes up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֗רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
On the north side their border began at the Jordan, went up past the northern slope of Jericho, headed west through the hill country, and came out at the wilderness of Beth-aven.
- מִדְבַּ֖רָהmidbarahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: wilderness of towards
And beyond the Jordan, east of Jericho, they designated Bezer on the wilderness plateau from the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֛רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.
- בַמִּדְבָּ֖רvamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Judges
nine uses
Now the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live among the people.
- מִדְבַּ֣רmidbarnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wilderness of
“Very well,” Gideon replied, “when the LORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with the thorns and briers of the wilderness!”
- הַמִּדְבָּ֖רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
Then he took the elders of the city, and using the thorns and briers of the wilderness, he disciplined the men of Succoth.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֖רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
But when Israel came up out of Egypt, they traveled through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.
- בַּמִּדְבָּר֙bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Then Israel traveled through the wilderness and bypassed the lands of Edom and Moab. They came to the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, since the Arnon was its border.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֗רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
seizing all the land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֖רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
So they fled before the men of Israel toward the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and the men coming out of the cities struck them down there.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֔רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
Then the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 men on the roads. And they overtook them at Gidom and struck down 2,000 more.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֙רָה֙hamidbarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: the wilderness towards
But 600 men turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֙רָה֙hamidbarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: the wilderness towards
1 Samuel
eighteen uses
Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
another toward Beth-horon, and the third down the border road overlooking the Valley of Zeboim facing the wilderness.
- הַמִּדְבָּֽרָה׃ סhamidbarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: the wilderness towards
Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֔רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.
- בַּמִּדְבָּר֙bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
- בְּמִדְבַּר־bemidbar-preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
While David was in Horesh in the Wilderness of Ziph, he saw that Saul had come out to take his life.
- בְּמִדְבַּר־bemidbar-preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon in the Arabah south of Jeshimon,
- בְּמִדְבַּ֤רbemidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
and Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard of this, he pursued David there.
- בְּמִדְבַּ֣רbemidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
- מִדְבַּ֥רmidbarnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wilderness of
After Saul had returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, “David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.”
- בְּמִדְבַּ֖רbemidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
When Samuel died, all Israel gathered to mourn for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David set out and went down to the Wilderness of Paran.
- מִדְבַּ֥רmidbarnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wilderness of
While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Meanwhile, one of Nabal’s young men informed Nabal’s wife Abigail, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he scolded them.
- מֵֽהַמִּדְבָּ֛רmehamidbarpreposition + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: from the wilderness
Now David had just finished saying, “In vain I have protected all that belonged to this man in the wilderness. Nothing that belongs to him has gone missing, yet he has paid me back evil for good.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֔רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
So Saul, accompanied by three thousand chosen men of Israel, went down to the Wilderness of Ziph to search for David there.
- מִדְבַּר־midbar-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wilderness of
- בְּמִדְבַּר־bemidbar-preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
Saul camped beside the road at the hill of Hachilah opposite Jeshimon, but David was living in the wilderness. When he realized that Saul had followed him there,
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֔רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
- הַמִּדְבָּֽרָה׃hamidbarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: the wilderness towards
2 Samuel
six uses
But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. By sunset, they had gone as far as the hill of Ammah opposite Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.
- מִדְבַּ֥רmidbarnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wilderness of
Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.
- הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃hamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”
- הַמִּדְבָּ֑רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
“Why do you have these?” asked the king. Ziba replied, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Now send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not spend the night at the fords of the wilderness, but be sure to cross over. Otherwise the king and all the people with him will be swallowed up.’”
- הַמִּדְבָּ֔רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
1 Kings
four uses
So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up, struck down Joab, and killed him. He was buried at his own home in the wilderness.
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Baalath, and Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah,
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֖רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
- בַּמִּדְבָּר֙bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Then the LORD said to him, “Go back by the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you arrive, you are to anoint Hazael as king over Aram.
- מִדְבַּ֣רָהmidbarahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: wilderness of towards
2 Kings
one use
Then he asked, “Which way shall we go up?” “By way of the Desert of Edom,” replied Joram.
- מִדְבַּ֥רmidbarnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wilderness of
1 Chronicles
four uses
They also settled in the east as far as the edge of the desert that extends to the Euphrates River, because their livestock had increased in the land of Gilead.
- מִדְבָּ֔רָהmidbarahnoun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: wilderness towards
From the tribe of Reuben east of the Jordan opposite Jericho they were given Bezer in the wilderness, Jahzah,
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֖רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the desert. They were mighty men of valor, trained for battle, experts with the shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and who were as swift as gazelles on the mountains:
- מִדְבָּ֜רָהmidbarahnoun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: wilderness towards
For the tabernacle of the LORD that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were presently at the high place in Gibeon,
- בַמִּדְבָּ֛רvamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
2 Chronicles
seven uses
And Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon because it was the location of God’s Tent of Meeting, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
He built Tadmor in the wilderness, in addition to all the store cities that he had built in Hamath.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Tomorrow you are to march down against them. You will see them coming up the Ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the valley facing the Wilderness of Jeruel.
- מִדְבַּ֥רmidbarnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wilderness of
Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be upheld; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”
- לְמִדְבַּ֣רlemidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to wilderness of
When the men of Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness, they looked for the vast army, but there were only corpses lying on the ground; no one had escaped.
- לַמִּדְבָּ֑רlamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: of the wilderness
And a proclamation was issued in Judah and Jerusalem that they were to bring to the LORD the tax imposed by Moses the servant of God on Israel in the wilderness.
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֗רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Nehemiah
two uses
You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֖רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Job
three uses
when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
- הַמִּדְבָּ֗רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
- בַּֽמִּדְבָּ֗רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
- מִ֝דְבָּ֗רmidbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: a wilderness
Psalms
eighteen uses
The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh.
- מִדְבָּ֑רmidbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: wilderness
- מִדְבַּ֥רmidbarnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wilderness of
How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֣רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
The pastures of the wilderness overflow; the hills are robed with joy.
- מִדְבָּ֑רmidbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: wilderness
For exaltation comes neither from east nor west, nor out of the desert,
- מִמִּדְבַּ֥רmimidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from wilderness
He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
- בַמִּדְבָּ֑רvamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
- מִדְבָּ֑רmidbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: wilderness
He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.
- כַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃kamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the wilderness
They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell.
- בַ֭מִּדְבָּרvamidborpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
He turns rivers into deserts, springs of water into thirsty ground,
- לְמִדְבָּ֑רlemidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into a wilderness
He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.
- מִ֭דְבָּרmidbornoun · masculine singulartagged: a wilderness
He led His people through the wilderness. His loving devotion endures forever.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Proverbs
one use
Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
- מִדְבָּ֑רmidbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: wilderness
Song of Solomon
three uses
Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?
- הַמִּדְבָּ֔רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon, and your mouth is lovely. Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.
- וּמִדְבָּרֵ֖יךְumidbareikhconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: and mouth your
Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֔רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
Isaiah
twenty-one uses
who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
- כַּמִּדְבָּ֖רkamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the wilderness
Send the tribute lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mount of Daughter Zion.
- מִדְבָּ֑רָהmidbarahnoun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: wilderness towards
For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.
- מִדְבָּ֑רmidbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: wilderness
This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.
- מִדְבַּר־midbar-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wilderness of
- מִמִּדְבָּ֣רmimidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from wilderness
For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
- כַּמִּדְבָּ֑רkamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the wilderness
until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.
- מִדְבָּר֙midbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: wilderness
Then justice will inhabit the wilderness, and righteousness will dwell in the fertile field.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֖רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
The wilderness and the land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
- מִדְבָּ֖רmidbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: wilderness
Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
- בַמִּדְבָּר֙vamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֕רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.
- מִדְבָּר֙midbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: wilderness
I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,
- בַּמִּדְבָּר֙bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Let the desert and its cities raise their voices; let the villages of Kedar cry aloud. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them cry out from the mountaintops.
- מִדְבָּר֙midbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: wilderness
Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
- בַּמִּדְבָּר֙bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.
- בַמִּדְבָּ֜רvamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
- מִדְבָּ֔רmidbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: a wilderness
For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.
- מִדְבָּרָהּ֙midbarahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: wilderness its
who led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble?
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֖רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
- מִדְבָּ֑רmidbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: a wilderness
- מִדְבָּ֣רmidbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: a wilderness
Jeremiah
twenty-one uses
“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֔רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֗רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
- מִדְבָּ֗רmidbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: a wilderness
You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?
- הֲמִדְבָּ֤רhamidbarquestion particle + noun · masculine singulartagged: ¿ a wilderness
“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֔רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֑רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
- בַמִּדְבָּ֗רvamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.
- מִדְבָּר֙midbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: wilderness
Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?
- כַמִּדְבָּ֖רkhamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the wilderness
Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
- לְמִדְבַּ֥רlemidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: into a wilderness of
Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֗רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
- מִדְבָּֽר׃midbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: wilderness
He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֔רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.
- מִדְבָּ֔רmidbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: a wilderness
For the land is full of adulterers—because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up—their course is evil and their power is misused.
- מִדְבָּ֑רmidbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: wilderness
all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert;
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֔רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
- מִדְבָּ֖רmidbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: a wilderness
Lamentations
three uses
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ סbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֖רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
- הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃hamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
Ezekiel
fifteen uses
I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
- מִמִּדְבַּ֣רmimidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: more than wilderness of
Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
- בַמִּדְבָּ֑רvamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness.
- הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃hamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֗רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֖רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֔רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
- בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
However, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, where I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
- מִדְבַּ֖רmidbarnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wilderness of
Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.
- בְּמִדְבַּ֖רbemidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wilderness of
accompanied by the sound of a carefree crowd. Drunkards were brought in from the desert along with men from the rabble, who put bracelets on your wrists and beautiful crowns on your head.
- מִמִּדְבָּ֑רmimidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from wilderness
I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and will not be taken away or gathered for burial. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֗רָהhamidbarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: the wilderness towards
I will make with them a covenant of peace and rid the land of wild animals, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.
- בַמִּדְבָּר֙vamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Hosea
five uses
Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.
- כַמִּדְבָּ֗רkhamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the wilderness
“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.
- הַמִּדְבָּ֑רhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֗רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.
- בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רbamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.
- מִמִּדְבָּ֣רmimidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from wilderness
Joel
five uses
To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.
- מִדְבָּ֔רmidbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: wilderness
Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.
- הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃ פhamidbarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wilderness
Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland—surely nothing will escape them.
- מִדְבַּ֣רmidbarnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a wilderness of
Do not be afraid, O beasts of the field, for the open pastures have turned green, the trees bear their fruit, and the fig tree and vine yield their best.
- מִדְבָּ֑רmidbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: wilderness
Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
- לְמִדְבַּ֥רlemidbarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: into a wilderness of
Amos
two uses
And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.
- בַּמִּדְבָּר֙bamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
- בַמִּדְבָּ֛רvamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the wilderness
Zephaniah
one use
And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.
- כַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃kamidbarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the wilderness
Malachi
one use
but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
- מִדְבָּֽר׃midbarnoun · masculine singulartagged: wilderness
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