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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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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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
And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
H4057
And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
H4057
From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
H4057
The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
H4057
And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
H4057
And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
H4057
But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
H4057
For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
H4057
Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.
H4057
For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
H4057
And the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
H4057
For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
H4057
And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
H4057
And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.
H4057
And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.
H4057
And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
H4057
And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
H4057
And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
H4057
And they removed from Eziongaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
H4057
Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
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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