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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Isaiah 43:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Isaiah 50:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Isaiah 51:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Isaiah 63:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
who led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble?
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Isaiah 64:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
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Source alternate reference: 64.9
Jeremiah 2:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“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.
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Jeremiah 2:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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?’
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Jeremiah 2:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Jeremiah 2:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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’?
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Jeremiah 3:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“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.
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Jeremiah 4:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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;
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Jeremiah 4:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger.
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Jeremiah 9:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Source alternate reference: 9.1
Jeremiah 9:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Source alternate reference: 9.9
Jeremiah 9:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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?
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Source alternate reference: 9.11
Jeremiah 9:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
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Source alternate reference: 9.25
Jeremiah 12:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
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Jeremiah 12:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Jeremiah 13:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
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Jeremiah 17:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Jeremiah 22:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Jeremiah 23:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Jeremiah 25:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert;
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Jeremiah 31:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”
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Jeremiah 48:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’
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Jeremiah 50:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Lamentations 4:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
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Lamentations 4:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.
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Lamentations 5:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
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Ezekiel 6:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.’”
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Ezekiel 19:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
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Ezekiel 20:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness.
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Ezekiel 20:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
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Ezekiel 20:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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—
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Ezekiel 20:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.
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Ezekiel 20:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Ezekiel 20:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Ezekiel 20:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Ezekiel 20:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, where I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
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Ezekiel 20:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Ezekiel 23:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Ezekiel 29:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Ezekiel 34:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Hosea 2:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Source alternate reference: 2.5
Hosea 2:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.
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Source alternate reference: 2.16
Hosea 9:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Hosea 13:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.
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Hosea 13:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Joel 1:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.
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Joel 1:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.
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