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Strong's H4057 מִדְבָּר (midbar)

Midbar means “desert” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G4057 — perissos (“superabundantly”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H4057
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 256
Books 27

Strong's H4057 Quick Answer

Strong's H4057 מִדבָּר (midbar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. midbar (mid-bawr') n-m. 1. a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven) 2. (by implication) a desert It has 256 linked Bible usages across 27 books. Visible English usage signals include were, was, is, wilderness, and be. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
midbar (mid-bawr') n-m. 1. a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven) 2. (by implication) a desert
Usage
256 linked usages
Books
27 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
were, was, is, wilderness, and be

Meaning and Definition

midbar (mid-bawr') n-m. 1. a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven) 2. (by implication) a desert 3. (also) speech (including its organs) [from H1696 in the sense of driving] KJV: desert, south, speech, wilderness. Root(s): H1696

Original Word
מִדבָּר
Transliteration
midbar
Derivation
Root: דבר First root strongs: 1696
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H4057. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H4057 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render midbar, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

was Exodus 16:14 13× were Exodus 14:11 13× is Exodus 16:1 be Exodus 16:32 wilderness Genesis 14:6 desert Exodus 3:1 are Exodus 14:3 been Exodus 14:12 cattle Numbers 20:4 field Joshua 8:24

How Strong's H4057 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 256 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H4057 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H4057 in the Old Testament

256 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 14:6 KJV

And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

Genesis 16:7 KJV

And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

Genesis 21:14 KJV

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4057.

Genesis 14:6 Old Testament, KJV
And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.
Genesis 16:7 Old Testament, KJV
And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
Genesis 21:14 Old Testament, KJV
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Genesis 21:20 Old Testament, KJV
And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
Genesis 21:21 Old Testament, KJV
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
Genesis 36:24 Old Testament, KJV
And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.
Genesis 37:22 Old Testament, KJV
And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.
Exodus 3:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
Exodus 3:18 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
Exodus 4:27 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.
Exodus 5:1 Old Testament, KJV
And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
Exodus 5:3 Old Testament, KJV
And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
Exodus 7:16 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.
Exodus 8:27 Old Testament, KJV
We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.
Exodus 8:28 Old Testament, KJV
And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.
Exodus 13:18 Old Testament, KJV
But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 13:20 Old Testament, KJV
And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
Exodus 14:3 Old Testament, KJV
For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
Exodus 14:11 Old Testament, KJV
And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
Exodus 14:12 Old Testament, KJV
Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
Exodus 15:22 Old Testament, KJV
So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
Exodus 16:1 Old Testament, KJV
And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 16:2 Old Testament, KJV
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
Exodus 16:3 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Exodus 16:10 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.
Exodus 16:14 Old Testament, KJV
And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
Exodus 16:32 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
Exodus 17:1 Old Testament, KJV
And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
Exodus 18:5 Old Testament, KJV
And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:
Exodus 19:1 Old Testament, KJV
In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
Exodus 19:2 Old Testament, KJV
For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.
Exodus 23:31 Old Testament, KJV
And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
Leviticus 7:38 Old Testament, KJV
Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.
Leviticus 16:10 Old Testament, KJV
But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
Leviticus 16:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
Leviticus 16:22 Old Testament, KJV
And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Numbers 1:1 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Numbers 1:19 Old Testament, KJV
As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 3:4 Old Testament, KJV
And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.
Numbers 3:14 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
Numbers 9:1 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Numbers 9:5 Old Testament, KJV
And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
Numbers 10:12 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 10:31 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes.
Numbers 12:16 Old Testament, KJV
And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 13:3 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.
Numbers 13:21 Old Testament, KJV
So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
Numbers 13:26 Old Testament, KJV
And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
Numbers 14:2 Old Testament, KJV
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
Numbers 14:16 Old Testament, KJV
Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
Numbers 14:22 Old Testament, KJV
Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
Numbers 14:25 Old Testament, KJV
(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
Numbers 14:29 Old Testament, KJV
Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.
Numbers 14:32 Old Testament, KJV
But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
Numbers 14:33 Old Testament, KJV
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
Numbers 14:35 Old Testament, KJV
I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
Numbers 15:32 Old Testament, KJV
And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
Numbers 16:13 Old Testament, KJV
Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
Numbers 20:1 Old Testament, KJV
Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
Numbers 20:4 Old Testament, KJV
And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
Numbers 21:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
Numbers 21:11 Old Testament, KJV
And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
Numbers 21:13 Old Testament, KJV
From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
Numbers 21:18 Old Testament, KJV
The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
Numbers 21:23 Old Testament, KJV
And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
Numbers 24:1 Old Testament, KJV
And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
Numbers 26:64 Old Testament, KJV
But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 26:65 Old Testament, KJV
For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Numbers 27:3 Old Testament, KJV
Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.
Numbers 27:14 Old Testament, KJV
For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
Numbers 32:13 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
Numbers 32:15 Old Testament, KJV
For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
Numbers 33:6 Old Testament, KJV
And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
Numbers 33:8 Old Testament, KJV
And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days'journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.
Numbers 33:11 Old Testament, KJV
And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
Numbers 33:12 Old Testament, KJV
And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
Numbers 33:15 Old Testament, KJV
And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 33:16 Old Testament, KJV
And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibrothhattaavah.
Numbers 33:36 Old Testament, KJV
And they removed from Eziongaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
Numbers 34:3 Old Testament, KJV
Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
Deuteronomy 1:1 Old Testament, KJV
These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
Deuteronomy 1:19 Old Testament, KJV
And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.
Deuteronomy 1:31 Old Testament, KJV
And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.
Deuteronomy 1:40 Old Testament, KJV
But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
Deuteronomy 2:1 Old Testament, KJV
Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.
Deuteronomy 2:7 Old Testament, KJV
For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
Deuteronomy 2:8 Old Testament, KJV
And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
Deuteronomy 2:26 Old Testament, KJV
And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
Deuteronomy 4:43 Old Testament, KJV
Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.
Deuteronomy 8:2 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Deuteronomy 8:15 Old Testament, KJV
Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
Deuteronomy 8:16 Old Testament, KJV
Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
Deuteronomy 9:7 Old Testament, KJV
Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
Deuteronomy 9:28 Old Testament, KJV
Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
Deuteronomy 11:5 Old Testament, KJV
And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place;
Deuteronomy 11:24 Old Testament, KJV
Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
Deuteronomy 29:5 Old Testament, KJV
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
Deuteronomy 32:10 Old Testament, KJV
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Deuteronomy 32:51 Old Testament, KJV
Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
Joshua 1:4 Old Testament, KJV
From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
Joshua 5:4 Old Testament, KJV
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 by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
Joshua 5:5 Old Testament, KJV
Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.
Joshua 5:6 Old Testament, KJV
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, 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 Old Testament, KJV
And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
Joshua 8:20 Old Testament, KJV
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 turned back upon the pursuers.
Joshua 8:24 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness 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 Old Testament, KJV
In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
Joshua 14:10 Old Testament, KJV
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: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
Joshua 15:1 Old Testament, KJV
This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.
Joshua 15:61 Old Testament, KJV
In the wilderness, Betharabah, Middin, and Secacah,
Joshua 16:1 Old Testament, KJV
And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel,
Joshua 18:12 Old Testament, KJV
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 of Bethaven.
Joshua 20:8 Old Testament, KJV
And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness 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 Old Testament, KJV
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 a long season.
Judges 1:16 Old Testament, KJV
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 of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.
Judges 8:7 Old Testament, KJV
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 and with briers.
Judges 8:16 Old Testament, KJV
And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
Judges 11:16 Old Testament, KJV
But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
Judges 11:18 Old Testament, KJV
Then they went along through the wilderness, 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 Old Testament, KJV
And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4057, grouped by book.

Genesis 7 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 25 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 4 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 44 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 19 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 15 usages, Old Testament
Judges 9 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 14 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 6 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 4 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 4 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 7 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Job 3 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 17 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Old Testament
Song of Solomon 3 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 19 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 21 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 3 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 14 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 5 usages, Old Testament
Joel 5 usages, Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H4057 FAQ

What does midbar (מִדְבָּר) mean?

Midbar (Strong's H4057) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "desert". midbar (mid-bawr') n-m. 1. a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven) 2. (by implication) a desert

How many times is midbar (מִדְבָּר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 256 linked usages for Strong's H4057 across 27 books.

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What English words translate midbar (מִדְבָּר)?

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