Lexical Summary midbar: mouth Original Word: מִדְבָּרTransliteration: midbar Phonetic Spelling: (mid-bawr') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: mouth Meaning: a pasture, a desert, speech Strong's Concordance desert, south, speech, wilderness From dabar in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. Open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs) -- desert, south, speech, wilderness. see HEBREW dabar Brown-Driver-Briggs H4057. midbar I. [מִדְבָּר] noun masculine mouth, as organ of speech, — נָאוֶה מִדְבָּרֵךְ thy mouth is lovely Song of Solomon 4:3 "" ᵐ5 שִׁפְתוֺתַיִךְ, λαλιά, Jerome eloquium. II. מִדְבָּר270 noun masculine wilderness — Deuteronomy 32:10 +; with ה locative מִדְבָּ֫רָה Joshua 18:12 15t.; construct Exodus 15:22 +; מִדְבַּ֫רָה 1 Kings 19:15; suffix מִדְבָּרָהּ Isaiah 51:3; — 1 tracts of land, used for the pasturage of flocks and herds, מִדְבָּר נְאוֺת דָּֽשְׁאוּ the pastures of the wilderness put forth green grass Joel 2:22; נ ׳יִרְעֲפוּ ׳מ the pastures of the wilderness drop (fertility) Psalm 65:13; נ ׳יָָֽבְשׁוּ ׳מ are dried up Jeremiah 23:10, compare 9:9; Joel 1:19-20,. 2 uninhabited land, בּוֺ לֹאאָֿדָם מִדְבָּר wilderness in which is no man Job 38:26; the abode of pelicans Psalm 102:7; wild asses Job 24:5; Jeremiah 2:24; jackals Malachi 1:3; ostriches Lamentations 4:3; אֶתעַֿמִּי וְֶאעֶזְבָה אֹרְחִים מְלוֺן בַמִּדְבָּר מִייִֿתְּנֵנִי O that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfarers, that I might leave my people Jeremiah 9:1; מִדְבָּר בְּאֶרֶץ שֶׁבֶת טוֺב better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious woman Proverbs 21:19; יְשִׁמֹן יְלֵל וּבְתֹהוּ מִדְבָּר בְּאֶרֶץ in a desert land, and in a waste howling wilderness Deuteronomy 32:10. 3 large tracts of such land bearing various names, in certain districts of which there might be towns and cities: קֵדָר תֵּשֵׁב חֲצֵרִים וְעָרָיו מִדְבָּר יִשְׂאוּ let the wilderness and its cities lift up (their voice), the villages that Kedar doth inhabit Isaiah 42:11. There were six cities in the wilderness of Judah Joshua 15:61-62, הַמִּדְבָּר usually = wilderness of the wanderings Genesis 14:6; Numbers 14:16, 29, 32, 33 (twice in verse) +, or the great Arabian desert Judges 11:22 +; but may also refer to any other Song of Solomon 3:6; 8:5. Special tracts — (a) of the wilderness of the wandering were ׳מ שׁוּר Exodus 15:22, סין16:1 +, סיני 19:1 +, פארן Numbers 13:26 +, צן 20:1 +, קדשׁ Psalm 29:8, אתם Numbers 33:8; (b) in West Palestine ׳מ יהודה Judges 1:16; Psalm 63:1 compare Joshua 15:61, מעוֺן 1 Samuel 23:24-25, זיף 23:15; 26:2, שׁבע באר Genesis 21:14, גדי עין 1 Samuel 24:2, תקוע2 Chronicles 20:20, ירואל20:16, גבעון 2 Samuel 2:24; (c) in Eastern Palestine מואב Deuteronomy 2:8, אדום 2 Kings 3:8, קדמות Deuteronomy 2:26. 4 figurative צִיָּה כְּאֶרֶץ וְשַׁתִּהָ כַמִּדְבָּר וְשַׂמְתִּיהָ and (lest I) make her as a wilderness and set her like a dry land Hosea 2:5; לְיִשְׂרָאֵל הָיִיתִי הֲמִדְבָּר have I been a wilderness to Israel ? Jeremiah 2:31. דבשׁ (√ of following; compare Arabic IX. become black or brown, of a colour between black and red; see derivatives; so Fl see below; yet verb in this meaning perhaps denominative from i.e. having the colour of dibs). |