Lexicon / H4057b
מִדְבָּר
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  • wilderness
  • Wilderness (of Sinai)

STEPBible TBESH

Glosses: wilderness; Wilderness (of Sinai)

1) wilderness

1a) pasture

1b) uninhabited land, wilderness

1c) large tracts of wilderness (around cities)

1d) wilderness (fig.)

This name means wilderness, uninhabited land

BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs)

Glosses: wilderness

Root √דבר: דָבַר vb speak Qal speak Niph speak with one another talk . reciprocal sense. Pi speak . Pu in the day when she may be spoken for . Hithp speaking this word . Hiph leads puts to flight subdues . eithersubject, or, fig. for 1142.(original mng. dub.)

מִדְבָר n.m wilderness tracts of land, used for the pasturage of flocks and herds uninhabited land large tracts of such land bearing various names, in certain districts of which there might be towns and cities fig. 270.