Hebrew word study
מִדְבָּרmidbâr — a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven)
Pronounced “mid-bawr'”
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
Translated in the King James as: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Appears 270 times in Scripture
Origin: from H1696 (דָבַר) in the sense of driving;
Read it in context & ask Abram about this wordWhere it appears
Genesis — 7×
Exodus — 26×
Numbers — 48×
Numbers 1:1Numbers 1:19Numbers 3:4Numbers 3:14Numbers 9:1Numbers 9:5Numbers 10:12Numbers 10:31Numbers 12:16Numbers 13:3Numbers 13:21Numbers 13:26Numbers 14:2Numbers 14:16Numbers 14:22Numbers 14:25Numbers 14:29Numbers 14:32Numbers 14:33Numbers 14:35Numbers 15:32Numbers 16:13Numbers 20:1Numbers 20:4Numbers 21:5+ 23 more in Numbers
Deuteronomy — 19×
Deuteronomy 1:1Deuteronomy 1:19Deuteronomy 1:31Deuteronomy 1:40Deuteronomy 2:1Deuteronomy 2:7Deuteronomy 2:8Deuteronomy 2:26Deuteronomy 4:43Deuteronomy 8:2Deuteronomy 8:15Deuteronomy 8:16Deuteronomy 9:7Deuteronomy 9:28Deuteronomy 11:5Deuteronomy 11:24Deuteronomy 29:5Deuteronomy 32:10Deuteronomy 32:51
Joshua — 15×
Judges — 9×
1 Samuel — 18×
1 Kings — 4×
2 Kings — 1×
1 Chronicles — 4×
Nehemiah — 2×
Psalms — 19×
Proverbs — 1×
Isaiah — 21×
Jeremiah — 21×
Ezekiel — 15×
Zephaniah — 1×
Malachi — 1×
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