מִדְבָּר
mid.bar
“mouth”
Definition
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
from H1696 (דָבַר) in the sense of driving;
- mouth 1a) mouth (as organ of speech)
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
מִדְבָּר appears 238 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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,
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.
And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert.All its cities were torn downbefore the LORD,before His fierce anger.
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.
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