Strong's Concordance H4057

Original Word: מִדְבָּר
Transliteration: midbâr
Phonetic Spelling: mid-bawr'
from H1696 in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs); desert, south, speech, wilderness.

Usages throughout the bible

Joshua 5:4 - And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness H4057 by the way, after they came out of Egypt.

Joshua 5:5 - Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness H4057 by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.

Joshua 5:6 - For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, H4057 till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Joshua 8:15 - And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. H4057

Joshua 8:20 - And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness H4057 turned back upon the pursuers.

Joshua 8:24 - And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness H4057 wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.

Joshua 12:8 - In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, H4057 and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:

Joshua 14:10 - And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: H4057 and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.

Joshua 15:1 - This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness H4057 of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.

Joshua 15:61 - In the wilderness, H4057 Betharabah, Middin, and Secacah,

Joshua 16:1 - And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness H4057 that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel,

Joshua 18:12 - And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness H4057 of Bethaven.

Joshua 20:8 - And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness H4057 upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

Joshua 24:7 - And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness H4057 a long season.

Judges 1:16 - And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness H4057 of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.

Judges 8:7 - And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness H4057 and with briers.

Judges 8:16 - And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness H4057 and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

Judges 11:16 - But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness H4057 unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;

Judges 11:18 - Then they went along through the wilderness, H4057 and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.

Judges 11:22 - And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness H4057 even unto Jordan.

Judges 20:42 - Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; H4057 but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.

Judges 20:45 - And they turned and fled toward the wilderness H4057 unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

Judges 20:47 - But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness H4057 unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.

1 Samuel 4:8 - Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness. H4057

1 Samuel 13:18 - And another company turned the way to Bethhoron: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. H4057

1 Samuel 17:28 - And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? H4057 I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

1 Samuel 23:14 - And David abode in the wilderness H4057 in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness H4057 of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.

1 Samuel 23:15 - And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness H4057 of Ziph in a wood.

1 Samuel 23:24 - And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness H4057 of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.

1 Samuel 23:25 - Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness H4057 of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness H4057 of Maon.

1 Samuel 24:1 - And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness H4057 of Engedi.

1 Samuel 25:1 - And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness H4057 of Paran.

1 Samuel 25:4 - And David heard in the wilderness H4057 that Nabal did shear his sheep.

1 Samuel 25:14 - But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness H4057 to salute our master; and he railed on them.

1 Samuel 25:21 - Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, H4057 so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.

1 Samuel 26:2 - Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness H4057 of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness H4057 of Ziph.

1 Samuel 26:3 - And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, H4057 and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness. H4057

2 Samuel 2:24 - Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness H4057 of Gibeon.

2 Samuel 15:23 - And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness. H4057

2 Samuel 15:28 - See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, H4057 until there come word from you to certify me.

2 Samuel 16:2 - And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness H4057 may drink.

2 Samuel 17:16 - Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, H4057 but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.

2 Samuel 17:29 - And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness. H4057

1 Kings 2:34 - So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness. H4057

1 Kings 9:18 - And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, H4057 in the land,

1 Kings 19:4 - But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, H4057 and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

1 Kings 19:15 - And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness H4057 of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:

2 Kings 3:8 - And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness H4057 of Edom.

1 Chronicles 5:9 - And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness H4057 from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 6:78 - And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness H4057 with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs,