Genesis 14:6
And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.
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Wilderness
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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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45 occurrences in 42 verses.
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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
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.
מִדְבָּר
midbâr · mid-bawr'
254 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.
Strong's first: Genesis 14:6Strong's last: Malachi 1:3
Open full H4057 profile →ἔρημος
érēmos · er'-ay-mos
32 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 3:1Strong's last: Revelation 17:3
Open full G2048 profile →עֲרָבָה
ʻărâbâh · ar-aw-baw'
5 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: Job 24:5Strong's last: Amos 6:14
Open full H6160 profile →ἐρημία
erēmía · er-ay-mee'-ah
3 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
solitude (concretely)
Strong's KJV usage: :--desert, wilderness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 15:33Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 11:26
Open full G2047 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: Psalms 72:9Strong's last: Isaiah 23:13
Open full H6728 profile →יְשִׁימוֹן
yᵉshîymôwn · yesh-ee-mone'
2 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: Deuteronomy 32:10Strong's last: Psalms 68:7
Open full H3452 profile →צִיָּה
tsîyâh · tsee-yaw'
2 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
aridity; concretely, a desert
Strong's KJV usage: barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness.
Strong's first: Job 30:3Strong's last: Psalms 78:17
Open full H6723 profile →תֹּהוּ
tôhûw · to'-hoo
2 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
Strong's KJV usage: confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
Strong's first: Job 12:24Strong's last: Psalms 107:40
Open full H8414 profile →אֶרֶץ
ʼerets · eh'-rets
1 times translated as this KJV form2,504 total Strong's occurrences
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
Strong's KJV usage: × common, country, earth, field, ground, land, × natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 21:19Strong's last: Proverbs 21:19
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H4057
Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
H4057
Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
H4057
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
English meaning and historical usage.
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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.
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