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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?

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.

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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23 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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Psalms 29:8
H4057

The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.

Psalms 29:8
H4057

The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.

Psalms 55:7
H4057

Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.

Psalms 63:1
no direct Strong's tag

<<A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.>> O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

Psalms 65:12
H4057

They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.

Psalms 68:7
H3452

O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:

Psalms 72:9
H6728

They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

Psalms 74:14
H6728

Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

Psalms 78:15
H4057

He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

Psalms 78:17
H6723

And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

Psalms 78:19
H4057

Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

Psalms 78:40
H4057

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

Psalms 78:52
H4057

But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Psalms 95:8
H4057

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

Psalms 102:6
H4057

I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

Psalms 106:9
H4057

He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.

Psalms 106:14
H4057

But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

Psalms 106:26
H4057

Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:

Psalms 107:4
H4057

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

Psalms 107:33
H4057

He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;

Psalms 107:35
H4057

He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

Psalms 107:40
H8414

He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

Psalms 136:16
H4057

To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.

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.