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mid.bar H4057

מִדְבָּר (mid.bar) means “mouth” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

מִדְבָּר Hebrew · H4057 271 tagged occurrences in 257 verses

Pronunciation guide: mid-bawr' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H4057A

מִדְבָּר · mid.bar · mouth

1) mouth 1a) mouth (as organ of speech)

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TBESH · H4057B

מִדְבָּר · mid.bar · wilderness

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

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TBESH · H4057G

מִדְבָּר · mid.bar · Wilderness (of Sinai)

This name means wilderness, uninhabited land

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H1696 (דָבַר) in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)

KJV glosses: desert, south, speech, wilderness.

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How translators render H4057

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
in the wilderness 109
the wilderness 25
of the wilderness 12
in the desert 10
into the wilderness 10
the desert 9
from the wilderness 8
wilderness 7
to the wilderness 6
through the wilderness 5
a desert 4
a wilderness 4
from the desert 4
for the wilderness 3
of the desert 3
the open 3
there 3
into a desert 2
like a desert 2
a wasteland 1
against the desert 1
and from the desert 1
and from the wilderness 1
and go to the desert 1
and in the wilderness 1
and there in the desert 1
and wilderness 1
and your mouth 1
as a desert 1
as through a desert 1
at the wilderness 1
by the desert 1
desert 1
facing the wilderness 1
from the wilderness the israelites went on 1
her wilderness 1
in a desert 1
in desert 1
into deserts 1
is in the wilderness 1
it into the wilderness 1
it is like a desert 1
let the desert 1
on a desert 1
on the wilderness 1
out of the desert 1
so from the wilderness 1
the edge of the desert 1
then the desert 1
these were in the wilderness 1
to the desert 1
toward the desert 1
toward the wilderness 1
was a desert 1
was in the wilderness 1
wasteland 1
were in the wilderness 1
you in the desert 1
you in the wilderness 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
in the wilderness 98
of the wilderness 23
into the wilderness 15
the wilderness 13
to the wilderness 9
them in the wilderness 7
from the wilderness 6
through the wilderness 6
wilderness 6
out of the wilderness 5
in the desert 4
toward the wilderness 4
a wilderness 3
and in the wilderness 3
in this wilderness 3
like a wilderness 3
and from the wilderness 2
from the desert 2
into the desert 2
into this wilderness 2
me in the wilderness 2
of the desert 2
thee in the wilderness 2
unto the wilderness 2
you into the wilderness 2
against me in the wilderness 1
against me in this wilderness 1
against them in the wilderness 1
and from the desert 1
and the wilderness 1
and thy speech 1
are a wilderness 1
as a wilderness 1
as through the wilderness 1
for in the wilderness 1
for us in the wilderness 1
hath in the wilderness 1
have i been a wilderness 1
her as a wilderness 1
her into the wilderness 1
her wilderness 1
him in a desert 1
him in the wilderness 1
him into the wilderness 1
i had in the wilderness 1
in of the wilderness 1
into a wilderness 1
is a wilderness 1
let the wilderness 1
nor from the south 1
of them in the wilderness 1
shall be from the wilderness 1
shall be yours from the wilderness 1
than the wilderness 1
the desert 1
thee a wilderness 1
them from the wilderness 1
them into the wilderness 1
them not in the wilderness 1
thereof were at the wilderness 1
unto me in the wilderness 1
unto them also in the wilderness 1
unto them in the wilderness 1
unto you in the wilderness 1
upon them in the wilderness 1
us in the wilderness 1
us through the wilderness 1
were in the wilderness 1
you in the wilderness 1

Verses containing H4057

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  1. Joshua 5:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  2. Joshua 5:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Though all who had come out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness on the journey from Egypt had been circumcised.

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  3. Joshua 5:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  4. Joshua 8:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Joshua and all Israel let themselves be beaten back before them, and they fled toward the wilderness.

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  5. Joshua 8:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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 turned against their pursuers.

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  6. Joshua 8:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  7. Joshua 12:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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):

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  8. Joshua 14:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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,

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  9. Joshua 15:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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:

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  10. Joshua 15:61 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    These were in the wilderness: Beth-arabah, Middin, Secacah,

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  11. Joshua 16:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  12. Joshua 18:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  13. Joshua 20:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  14. Joshua 24:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  15. Judges 1:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  16. Judges 8:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “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!”

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  17. Judges 8:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then he took the elders of the city, and using the thorns and briers of the wilderness, he disciplined the men of Succoth.

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  18. Judges 11:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But when Israel came up out of Egypt, they traveled through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.

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  19. Judges 11:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  20. Judges 11:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    seizing all the land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.

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  21. Judges 20:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  22. Judges 20:45 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  23. Judges 20:47 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But 600 men turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.

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  24. 1 Samuel 4:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  25. 1 Samuel 13:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    another toward Beth-horon, and the third down the border road overlooking the Valley of Zeboim facing the wilderness.

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  26. 1 Samuel 17:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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!”

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  27. 1 Samuel 23:14 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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.

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  28. 1 Samuel 23:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    While David was in Horesh in the Wilderness of Ziph, he saw that Saul had come out to take his life.

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  29. 1 Samuel 23:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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,

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  30. 1 Samuel 23:25 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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.

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  31. 1 Samuel 24:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After Saul had returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, “David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.”

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    Source alternate reference: 24.2

  32. 1 Samuel 25:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  33. 1 Samuel 25:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep.

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  34. 1 Samuel 25:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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 screamed at them.

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  35. 1 Samuel 25:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now David had just said, “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.

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  36. 1 Samuel 26:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So Saul, accompanied by three thousand chosen men of Israel, went down to the Wilderness of Ziph to search for David there.

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  37. 1 Samuel 26:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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,

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  38. 2 Samuel 2:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  39. 2 Samuel 15:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  40. 2 Samuel 15:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

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  41. 2 Samuel 16:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “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.”

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  42. 2 Samuel 17:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.’”

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  43. 2 Samuel 17:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  44. 1 Kings 2:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up, struck down Joab, and killed him. He was buried at his own home in the wilderness.

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  45. 1 Kings 9:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Baalath, and Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah,

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  46. 1 Kings 19:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    while he himself went 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.”

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  47. 1 Kings 19:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  48. 2 Kings 3:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then he asked, “Which way shall we go up?” “By way of the Desert of Edom,” replied Joram.

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  49. 1 Chronicles 5:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  50. 1 Chronicles 6:78 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    From the tribe of Reuben east of the Jordan opposite Jericho they were given Bezer in the wilderness, Jahzah,

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    Source alternate reference: 6.63

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