מִדְבָּר

Strong’s Definition

a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)

Etymology & Derivation

from H1696 (דָבַר) in the sense of driving;

KJV Usage

desert, south, speech, wilderness.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.wilderness
• 2.pasture
• 3.mouth (as organ of speech)
• 4.uninhabited land, wilderness
• 5.large tracts of wilderness (around cities)
• 6.mouth
• 7.wilderness (figuratively)

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: midbâr; Pronunciation: mid-bawr'