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

Ezekiel 20:35
H4057

And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.

Ezekiel 20:36
H4057

Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 23:42
H4057

And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.

Ezekiel 29:5
H4057

And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.

Ezekiel 34:25
H4057

And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

Hosea 2:3
H4057

Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

Hosea 2:14
H4057

Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

Hosea 9:10
H4057

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

Hosea 13:5
H4057

I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

Hosea 13:15
H4057

Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

Joel 1:19
H4057

O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

Joel 1:20
H4057

The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

Joel 2:3
H4057

A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

Joel 2:22
H4057

Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.

Joel 3:19
H4057

Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

Amos 2:10
H4057

Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

Amos 5:25
H4057

Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

Amos 6:14
H6160

But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.

Zephaniah 2:13
H4057

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

Malachi 1:3
H4057

And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

Matthew 3:1
G2048

In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,

Matthew 3:3
G2048

For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

Matthew 4:1
G2048

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

Matthew 11:7
G2048

And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

Matthew 15:33
G2047

And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?

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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