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Mouth

מִדְבָּרStrong’s H4057

midbar (mid-bar)

Appears in 257 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Midbar is the Hebrew word usually translated “wilderness”, “wilderness of” and “wilderness towards”. It appears in 257 verses of the Old Testament.

“And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.”
Genesis 14:6 KJV
Meaning
  1. Mouthmouth (as organ of speech)
  2. Wildernesspasture · uninhabited land, wilderness · large tracts of wilderness (around cities) · wilderness (fig.)
  3. This name means wilderness, uninhabited land
How it's translated
  • in the wilderness 116
  • the wilderness 33
  • in wilderness of 25
  • wilderness of 20
  • wilderness 18
  • the wilderness towards 12
  • a wilderness 9
  • from wilderness of 8

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

Where it's used most
  • Numbers 44
  • Exodus 25
  • Jeremiah 21
  • Deuteronomy 19
  • Isaiah 19
  • Psalms 18

27 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 257 verses, by book
2 Kings 1
3:8
1 Chronicles 4
5:96:7812:821:29
Nehemiah 2
9:199:21
Proverbs 1
21:19
Song of Solomon 3
3:64:38:5
Lamentations 3
4:34:195:9
Amos 2
2:105:25
Zephaniah 1
2:13
Malachi 1
1:3
Hebrew dictionary

מִדְבָּר midbar · mouth

1) mouth 1a) mouth (as organ of speech)

מִדְבָּר midbar · wilderness

1) wilderness 1a) pasture 1b) uninhabited land, wilderness 1c) large tracts of wilderness (around cities) 1d) wilderness (fig.)

מִדְבָּר midbar · Wilderness (of Sinai)

This name means wilderness, uninhabited land

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

MOUTH, noun

  1. The aperture in the head of an animal, between the lips, by which he utters his voice and receives food.
  2. The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied; as the mouth of a jar or pitcher.
  3. The part or channel of a river by which its waters are discharged into the ocean or into a lake.
  4. The opening of a piece of ordnance at the end, by which the charge issues.
All definitions and other forms of “mouth”
  1. The aperture of a vessel in animal bodies, by which fluids or other matter is received or discharged; as the mouth of the lacteals.
  2. The opening or entrance of a cave, pit, well or den.
  3. The instrument of speaking; as, the story is in every body's mouth
  4. A principal speaker; one that utters the common opinion.
  5. Cry; voice.
  6. In Scripture, words uttered. Job 19:16Isaiah 49:2Psalms 73:9
  7. Desires; necessities. Psalms 103:5
  8. Freedom and boldness of speech; force of argument.
  9. Boasting; vaunting. Judges 9:38
  10. Testimony. Deuteronomy 17:6
  11. Reproaches; calumnies. Job 5:15
  12. To pout; to treat disdainfully.

MOUTH, verb transitive

To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; as, to mouth words or language.

  1. To take into the mouth; to seize with the mouth
  2. To chew; to grind, as food; to eat; to devour.
  3. To form by the mouth as a bear her cub. [Not used.]
  4. To reproach; to insult.

MOUTH, verb intransitive

To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant; as a mouthing actor.

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

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.