Wilderness

1. § waste, wilderness, desert, desolate place
2. Waste, wilderness, desert, desolate place

• in a desolate place 5
• jeshimon 4
• the desolate place 2
• a desolate place 1
• in a desolate place of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• 1 Samuel 4
• Psalms 4
• Numbers 2
• Isaiah 2
• Deuteronomy 1

5 books in all.

• Wilderness (midbar)
• Deserted (erēmos)
• Desert (erēmia)

• Numbers 23:28And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
• Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
• 1 Samuel 23:19Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
• 1 Samuel 23:24And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.
• 1 Samuel 26:1And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?
• 1 Samuel 26:3And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

How the English word “wilderness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.