Exodus 3:1
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
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Desert
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Acts 8:26
And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
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מִדְבָּר
midbâr · mid-bawr'
13 times translated as this KJV form269 total Strong's occurrences
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
Strong's KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 3:1Strong's last: Jeremiah 25:24
Open full H4057 profile →ἔρημος
érēmos · er'-ay-mos
12 times translated as this KJV form50 total Strong's occurrences
lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually as a noun, G5561 being implied)
Strong's KJV usage: :--desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 14:13Strong's last: Acts 8:26
Open full G2048 profile →עֲרָבָה
ʻărâbâh · ar-aw-baw'
8 times translated as this KJV form61 total Strong's occurrences
a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea
Strong's KJV usage: Arabah, champaign, desert, evening, heaven, plain, wilderness. See also 1026.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 35:1Strong's last: Ezekiel 47:8
Open full H6160 profile →יְשִׁימוֹן
yᵉshîymôwn · yesh-ee-mone'
4 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
a desolation
Strong's KJV usage: desert, Jeshimon, solitary, wilderness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 78:40Strong's last: Isaiah 43:20
Open full H3452 profile →צִיִּי
tsîyîy · tsee-ee'
3 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a desert-dweller, i.e. nomad or wild beast
Strong's KJV usage: wild beast of the desert, that dwell in (inhabiting) the wilderness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 13:21Strong's last: Jeremiah 50:39
Open full H6728 profile →גְּמוּל
gᵉmûwl · ghem-ool'
1 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
treatment, i.e. an act (of good or ill); by implication, service or requital
Strong's KJV usage: as hast served, benefit, desert, deserving, that which he hath given, recompense, reward.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 28:4Strong's last: Psalms 28:4
Open full H1576 profile →חׇרְבָּה
chorbâh · khor-baw'
1 times translated as this KJV form42 total Strong's occurrences
properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation
Strong's KJV usage: decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 102:6Strong's last: Psalms 102:6
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H6728
But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
H4057
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
H4057
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
H6728
The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
H6160
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
H6160
Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
H6160
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
H6160
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
H3452
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
H3452
The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
H6160
For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
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desert
DESERT, adjective S as z [Latin To sow, plant or scatter.]
1. Literally, forsaken; hence, uninhabited; as a desert isle. Hence, wild; untilled; waste; uncultivated; as a desert land or country.
2. Void; emprty; unoccupied.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
DESERT, noun An uninhabited tract of land; a region in its natural state; a wilderness; a solitude; particularly, a vast sandy plain, as the deserts of Arabia and Africa. But the word may be applied to an uninhabited country covered with wood.
DESERT, verb transitive [Latin To forsake.]
1. To forsake; to leave utterly; to abandon; to quit with a view not to return to; as, to desert a friend; to desert our country; to desert a cause.
2. To leave, without permission, a military band, or a ship, in which one is enlisted; to forsake the service in which one is engaged, in violation of duty; as, to desert the army; to desert ones colors; to desert a ship.
DESERT, verb intransitive To run away; to quit a service without permission; as, to desert from the army.
DESERT, noun
1. A deserving; that which gives a right to reward or demands, or which renders liable to punishment; merit or demerit; that which entitles to a recompense of equal to the offense; good conferred, or evil done, which merits an equivalent return. A wise legislature will reward or punish men according to their deserts.
2. That which is deserved; reward or punishment merited. In a future life, every man will receive his desert
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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