מִדְבָּר
midbâr · mid-bawr'
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
Lexicon
Derivation: 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)
- a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven)
- by implication, a desert
- also, speech (including its organs)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › the doorway, the way in › the house, what is within › the head, the highest
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of the doorway, the way in of the house, what is within of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מִדְבָּר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
271 occurrences · 271 OT · 0 NT · 86 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- in the wilderness93 · 43%
- of the wilderness23 · 11%
- into the wilderness14 · 6%
- the wilderness10 · 5%
- to the wilderness9 · 4%
- them in the wilderness7 · 3%
- through the wilderness7 · 3%
- wilderness6 · 3%
- from the wilderness6 · 3%
- out of the wilderness5 · 2%
- toward the wilderness4 · 2%
- in the desert4 · 2%
- like a wilderness3 · 1%
- and in the wilderness3 · 1%
- in this wilderness3 · 1%
- thee in the wilderness2 · 1%
- from the desert2 · 1%
- were in the wilderness2 · 1%
- you into the wilderness2 · 1%
- into this wilderness2 · 1%
- unto the wilderness2 · 1%
- and from the wilderness2 · 1%
- me in the wilderness2 · 1%
- into the desert2 · 1%
- of the desert2 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.