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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Wilderness

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

305exact KJV occurrences 270Old Testament 35New Testament 36books containing the word 9mapped Strong's IDs 304occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 14:6

And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 17:3

So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where wilderness appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 77 verses Exodus 2322 verses Leviticus 44 verses Numbers 4542 verses Deuteronomy 1919 verses Joshua 1515 verses Judges 99 verses 1 Samuel 1814 verses 2 Samuel 66 verses 1 Kings 44 verses 2 Kings 11 verses 1 Chronicles 44 verses 2 Chronicles 66 verses Nehemiah 22 verses Job 66 verses Psalms 2322 verses Proverbs 11 verses Song of Solomon 22 verses Isaiah 2120 verses Jeremiah 2121 verses Lamentations 33 verses Ezekiel 1514 verses Hosea 55 verses Joel 55 verses Amos 33 verses Zephaniah 11 verses Malachi 11 verses Matthew 55 verses Mark 55 verses Luke 77 verses John 44 verses Acts 77 verses 1 Corinthians 11 verses 2 Corinthians 11 verses Hebrews 22 verses Revelation 33 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH4057
מִדְבָּר

midbâr · mid-bawr'

254 times translated as this KJV form269 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

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: Genesis 14:6Strong's last: Malachi 1:3

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HebrewH6160
עֲרָבָה

ʻărâbâh · ar-aw-baw'

5 times translated as this KJV form61 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

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: Job 24:5Strong's last: Amos 6:14

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HebrewH6728
צִיִּי

tsîyîy · tsee-ee'

3 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

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: Psalms 72:9Strong's last: Isaiah 23:13

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Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.

EVERY OCCURRENCE

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4 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Clear
1 Chronicles 5:9
H4057

And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 6:78
H4057

And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs,

1 Chronicles 12:8
H4057

And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;

1 Chronicles 21:29
H4057

For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

wilderness

WILDERNESS, noun [from wild.]

1. A desert; a tract of land or region uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide barren plain. In the United States, it is applied only to a forest. In Scripture, it is applied frequently to the deserts of Arabia. The Israelites wandered int he wilderness forty years.

2. The ocean.

The watry wilderness yields no supply.

3. A state of disorder. [Not in use.]

4. A wood in a garden, resembling a forest.

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.

SOURCE & METHOD

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KJV English usageExact token counts, verse counts, first/last occurrence, and book distribution come from the canonical TWBC PCE KJV index.
Webster 1828Historical English dictionary material is reproduced as dictionary data, not as inspired Scripture or TWBC commentary.
Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.