Original Language Studio
Joshua 1:4
“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.” (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
- מֵ — preposition
- הַ — particle (definite article)
- מִּדְבָּר֩ — 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.