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מִדְבָּר H4057

H4057 is the Hebrew word מִדְבָּר, transliterated midbâr and said mid-bawr'. The King James Version most often renders it wilderness.

Word: מִדְבָּרTransliteration: midbârSaid: mid-bawr'Language: HebrewIn the KJV: 224 verses

What it means

a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs).

Where it comes from

from H1696 (דָבַר) in the sense of driving.

How the King James Version translates it

Across 233 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

wilderness 195×desert 12×through the wilderness 8×out of the wilderness 5×toward the wilderness 3×you in the wilderness 2×you into the wilderness 2×like a wilderness 2×against me in this wilderness 1×thereof were at the wilderness 1×fellow hath in the wilderness 1×speech 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: desert, south, speech, wilderness.

Verses using מִדְבָּר

The first 40 of 224 verses, quoted in full.

Genesis 16:7 · KJV

And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

Genesis 21:14 · KJV

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

Genesis 21:20 · KJV

And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

Genesis 21:21 · KJV

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

Genesis 36:24 · KJV

And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.

Genesis 37:22 · KJV

And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.

Exodus 3:1 · KJV

Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

Exodus 3:18 · KJV

And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

Exodus 4:27 · KJV

And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.

Exodus 5:3 · KJV

And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.

Exodus 7:16 · KJV

And thou shalt say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.

Exodus 8:27 · KJV

We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.

Exodus 8:28 · KJV

And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.

Exodus 13:18 · KJV

But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 14:3 · KJV

For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

Exodus 14:11 · KJV

And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?

Exodus 15:22 · KJV

So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

Exodus 16:1 · KJV

And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 16:3 · KJV

And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

Exodus 16:10 · KJV

And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.

Exodus 16:14 · KJV

And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.

Exodus 16:32 · KJV

And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.

Exodus 17:1 · KJV

And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.

Exodus 18:5 · KJV

And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:

Exodus 19:1 · KJV

In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.

Exodus 19:2 · KJV

For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.

Exodus 23:31 · KJV

And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

Leviticus 7:38 · KJV

Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.

Numbers 1:1 · KJV

And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Numbers 1:19 · KJV

As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

Numbers 3:4 · KJV

And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the sight of Aaron their father.

Numbers 3:14 · KJV

And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

Numbers 9:1 · KJV

And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Numbers 9:5 · KJV

And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.

Numbers 10:12 · KJV

And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 10:31 · KJV

And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes.

Numbers 12:16 · KJV

And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 13:3 · KJV

And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.

Numbers 13:21 · KJV

So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.

Numbers 13:26 · KJV

And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.

Common questions

What does Strong's H4057 mean?

H4057 is the Hebrew word מִדְבָּר (midbâr), meaning a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs).

How is H4057 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it wilderness (195 times), desert (12 times), through the wilderness (8 times), out of the wilderness (5 times), toward the wilderness (3 times), among others.

How many times does H4057 appear in the Bible?

מִדְבָּר (midbâr) is tagged in 224 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H4057 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: from H1696 (דָבַר) in the sense of driving.

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