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Deuteronomy 1:31
“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.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H4057 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
- Derivation
- from H1696 (דָבַר) in the sense of driving;
- KJV renderings
- desert, south, speech, wilderness.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- בַ — preposition with definite article
- מִּדְבָּר֙ — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 271 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 14:6Genesis 16:7Genesis 21:14Genesis 21:20Genesis 21:21
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מִדְבָּר here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.