The meaning of “מִדְבָּר”
Understanding midbâr reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.
desert, south, speech, wilderness. - a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven) - by implication, a desert -...
מִדְבָּר
desert, south, speech, wilderness. - a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven) - by implication, a desert - also speech (including its organs) 1) wilderness 1a) pasture 1b) uninhabited land, wilderness 1c) large tracts of wilderness (around cities) 1d) wilderness (fig.) 2) mouth 2a) mouth (as organ of speech)
Occurrences in the Bible
| Reference | Text | |
|---|---|---|
| Genesis 21:20 | “And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.” Word: מִדְבָּר (midbâr) | |
| Joshua 12:8 | “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:” Word: מִדְבָּר (midbâr) | |
| 2 Kings 3:8 | “And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom.” Word: מִדְבָּר (midbâr) | |
| Psalms 95:8 | “Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:” Word: מִדְבָּר (midbâr) | |
| Ezekiel 20:21 | “Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.” Word: מִדְבָּר (midbâr) |
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