מִדְבָּר
mid.bar
- 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.