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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11 occurrences in 10 verses.
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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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H6160
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
H4057
And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,
H6160
Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
H6728
Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
H6160
Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.
G2048
When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities.
G2048
And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.
G2048
Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
G2048
But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.
G2048
And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
G2048
And they departed into a desert place by ship privately.
G2048
And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed:
G2048
And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from them.
G2048
And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.
G2048
And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place.
G2048
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
G2048
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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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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