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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.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

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

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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.

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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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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

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Numbers 1:1
H4057

And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Numbers 1:19
H4057

As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

Numbers 3:4
H4057

And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.

Numbers 3:14
H4057

And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

Numbers 9:1
H4057

And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Numbers 9:5
H4057

And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.

Numbers 10:12
H4057

And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 10:12
H4057

And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 10:31
H4057

And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes.

Numbers 12:16
H4057

And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 13:3
H4057

And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.

Numbers 13:21
H4057

So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.

Numbers 13:26
H4057

And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.

Numbers 14:2
H4057

And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

Numbers 14:16
H4057

Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:22
H4057

Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

Numbers 14:25
H4057

(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

Numbers 14:29
H4057

Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,

Numbers 14:32
H4057

But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

Numbers 14:33
H4057

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:33
H4057

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:35
H4057

I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

Numbers 15:32
H4057

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.

Numbers 16:13
H4057

Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?

Numbers 20:4
H4057

And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

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.

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