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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

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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.

2 Kings 3:8
H4057

And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom.

1 Chronicles 5:9
H4057

And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 6:78
H4057

And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs,

1 Chronicles 12:8
H4057

And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;

1 Chronicles 21:29
H4057

For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.

2 Chronicles 1:3
H4057

So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

2 Chronicles 8:4
H4057

And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.

2 Chronicles 20:16
H4057

To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.

2 Chronicles 20:20
H4057

And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.

2 Chronicles 20:24
H4057

And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.

2 Chronicles 24:9
H4057

And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.

Nehemiah 9:19
H4057

Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.

Nehemiah 9:21
H4057

Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

Job 1:19
H4057

And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Job 12:24
H8414

He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

Job 24:5
H6160

Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

Job 30:3
H6723

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

Job 38:26
H4057

To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

Job 39:6
H6160

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

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:

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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