Desert (322 Occurrences)

Desert

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Matthew 3:1 About this time John the Baptist made his appearance, preaching in the Desert of Judaea.
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Matthew 3:3 He it is who was spoken of through the Prophet Isaiah when he said, "The voice of one crying aloud, 'In the desert prepare ye a road for the Lord: make His highway straight.'"
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Matthew 4:1 At that time Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the Desert in order to be tempted by the Devil.
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Matthew 11:7 When the messengers had taken their leave, Jesus proceeded to say to the multitude concerning John, "What did you go out into the Desert to gaze at? A reed waving in the wind?
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Matthew 14:13 Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat, to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.
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Matthew 14:15 When evening had come, his disciples came to him, saying, "This place is deserted, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves food."
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Matthew 15:33 The disciples said to him, "Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?"
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Matthew 24:26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
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Mark 1:3 "The voice of one crying aloud: 'In the Desert prepare a road for the Lord: Make His highways straight.'"
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Mark 1:4 So John the Baptizer came, and was in the Desert proclaiming a baptism of the penitent for forgiveness of sins.
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Mark 1:12 At once the Spirit impelled Him to go out into the Desert,
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Mark 1:35 Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.
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Mark 1:45 But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places: and they came to him from everywhere.
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Mark 6:31 He said to them, "You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile." For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
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Mark 6:32 They went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.
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Mark 6:35 When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, "This place is deserted, and it is late in the day.
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Mark 8:4 His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?"
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Luke 1:80 The child was growing, and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
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Luke 3:2 during the High-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, a message from God came to John, the son of Zechariah, in the Desert.
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Luke 3:4 as it is written in the book of the prophet Isaiah, "The voice of one crying aloud! 'In the Desert prepare ye a road for the Lord: make His highway straight.
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Luke 4:1 Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led about by the Spirit in the Desert for forty days,
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Luke 4:42 And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from them.
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Luke 5:16 But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.
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Luke 7:24 When John's messengers were gone, He proceeded to say to the multitude concerning John, "What did you go out into the Desert to gaze at? A reed waving in the wind?
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Luke 8:29 For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bands apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.
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Luke 9:10 The apostles, when they had returned, told him what things they had done. He took them, and withdrew apart to a deserted place of a city called Bethsaida.
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Luke 9:12 The day began to wear away; and the twelve came, and said to him, "Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place."
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Luke 11:24 "When a foul spirit has left a man, it roams about in the Desert, seeking a resting-place; but, unable to find any, it says, 'I will return to the house I have left;"
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John 1:23 "I am the voice," he replied, "of one crying aloud, 'Make straight the Lord's way in the Desert,' fulfilling the words of the Prophet Isaiah."
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John 3:14 And just as Moses lifted high the serpent in the Desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
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John 6:31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
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John 6:49 Your forefathers ate the manna in the Desert, and they died.
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John 11:54 Therefore Jesus no longer went about openly among the Jews, but He left that neighbourhood and went into the district near the Desert, to a town called Ephraim, and remained there with the disciples.
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Acts 7:30 "But at the end of forty years there appeared to him in the Desert of Mount Sinai an angel in the middle of a flame of fire in a bush.
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Acts 7:36 This was he who brought them out, after performing marvels and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea, and in the Desert for forty years.
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Acts 7:38 This is he who was among the Congregation in the Desert, together with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and with our forefathers, who received ever-living utterances to hand on to us.
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Acts 7:42 So God turned from them and gave them up to the worship of the Host of Heaven, as it is written in the Book of the Prophets, "'Were they victims and sacrifices which you offered Me, forty years in the Desert, O House of Israel?
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Acts 7:44 "Our forefathers had the Tent of the Testimony in the Desert, built as He who spoke to Moses had instructed him to make it in imitation of the model which he had seen.
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Acts 8:26 But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert."
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Acts 13:18 For a period of about forty years, He fed them, like a nurse, in the Desert.
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Acts 21:38 "Are you not the Egyptian who some years ago excited the riot of the 4,000 cut-throats, and led them out into the Desert?"
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1 Corinthians 10:5 But with most of them God was not well pleased; for they were laid low in the Desert.
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2 Corinthians 11:26 I have served Him by frequent travelling, amid dangers in crossing rivers, dangers from robbers; dangers from my own countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles; dangers in the city, dangers in the Desert, dangers by sea, dangers from spies in our midst;
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Hebrews 3:8 do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time of the provocation on the day of the temptation in the Desert,
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Hebrews 3:17 And with whom was God so greatly grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies fell in the Desert?
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Hebrews 13:5 Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."
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Revelation 12:6 and the woman fled into the Desert, there to be cared for, for 1,260 days, in a place which God had prepared for her.
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Revelation 12:14 Then, the two wings of a great eagle were given to the woman to enable her to fly away into the Desert to the place assigned her, there to be cared for, for a period of time, two periods of time, and half a period of time, beyond the reach of the serpent.
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Revelation 17:3 So he carried me away in the Spirit into a desert, and there I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored Wild Beast which was covered with names of blasphemy and had seven heads and ten horns.
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Genesis 14:6 and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness.
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Genesis 16:7 The angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
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Genesis 21:14 Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. Exodus
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Genesis 21:20 God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.
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Genesis 36:24 These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.
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Genesis 37:22 Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"-that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
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Exodus 3:1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
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Exodus 3:18 They will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him,'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.'
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Exodus 4:27 Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him.
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Exodus 5:1 Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, "This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says,'Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.'"
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Exodus 5:3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
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Exodus 7:16 And thou shalt say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.
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Exodus 8:27 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he shall command us."
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Exodus 8:28 Pharaoh said, "I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me."
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Exodus 13:18 but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.
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Exodus 13:20 They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
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Exodus 14:3 Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel,'They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.'
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Exodus 14:11 They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us forth out of Egypt?
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Exodus 14:12 Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying,'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."
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Exodus 15:22 Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
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Exodus 16:1 They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
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Exodus 16:3 and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
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Exodus 16:10 It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud.
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Exodus 16:14 When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.
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Exodus 16:32 Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded,'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.'"
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Exodus 17:1 All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to Yahweh's commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.
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Exodus 18:5 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God.
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Exodus 19:1 In the third month after the children of Israel had gone forth out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.
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Exodus 19:2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.
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Exodus 23:31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
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Leviticus 7:38 which Yahweh commanded Moses in Mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai.
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Leviticus 11:18 the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,
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Leviticus 16:10 But the goat, on which the lot fell for the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before Yahweh, to make atonement for him, to send him away for the scapegoat into the wilderness.
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Leviticus 16:21 Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.
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Leviticus 16:22 The goat shall carry all their iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall let the goat go in the wilderness.
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Numbers 1:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
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Numbers 1:19 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
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Numbers 3:4 Nadab and Abihu died before Yahweh, when they offered strange fire before Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the presence of Aaron their father.
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Numbers 9:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
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Numbers 10:12 The children of Israel went forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.
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Numbers 10:31 He said, "Don't leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.
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Numbers 12:16 Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
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Numbers 13:3 Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh: all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.
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Numbers 13:21 So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
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Numbers 13:26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
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Numbers 14:2 All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!
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Numbers 14:16 Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.
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Numbers 14:22 because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
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Numbers 14:25 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."
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Numbers 14:32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
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Numbers 14:33 Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
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Thesaurus

Desert (322 Occurrences)
... The "backside of the desert" (Exodus 3:1) is the west of the desert, the
region behind a man, as the east is the region in front. ...
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Jeshimon (6 Occurrences)
... je-she'-mon, jesh'-i-mon (ha-yeshimon, "the desert," and in the Revised Version
(British and American) so translated but in the King James Version, Numbers 21 ...
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Shur (6 Occurrences)
... An enclosure; a wall, a part, probably, of the Arabian desert, on the north-eastern
border of Egypt, giving its name to a wilderness extending from Egypt ...
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Sinai (38 Occurrences)
... From Rephidim (Exodus 17:8-13) the Israelites journeyed forward through the Wady
Solaf and Wady esh-Sheikh into the plain of er-Rahah, "the desert of Sinai ...
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Hachilah (3 Occurrences)
... It is stated (1 Samuel 23:19) to be "on the South of the desert" (or Jeshimon),
and (1 Samuel 26:1) to be "before (on the front (ie edge) of) the desert." It ...
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Meribah (11 Occurrences)
... Quarrel or strife. (1.) One of the names given by Moses to the fountain in the desert
of Sin, near Rephidim ... It is near the beginning of the desert wanderings. ...
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Ostrich (9 Occurrences)
... of Jeremiah and Isaiah place it; so the translations are now correctly rendered
"ostrich." These birds came into the Bible because of their desert life, the ...
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Wilderness (304 Occurrences)
... (1.) Hebrews midhbar, denoting not a barren desert but a ... 57:20)." A Short Analysis
of the OT. (2.) Jeshimon, a desert waste (Deuteronomy 32:10; Psalm 68:7). ...
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Gaza (22 Occurrences)
... Philip is here told to take the road from Jerusalem to Gaza (about 6 miles
south-west of Jerusalem), "which is desert", ie, the "desert road," probably by ...
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Leviticus (1 Occurrence)
... not occur in Leviticus, and these are nearly all animals and birds which are not
found in Egypt or the Holy Land, but which are numerous in the Arabian desert. ...
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Smith's Bible Dictionary

Desert

Not a stretch of sand, an utterly barren waste, but a wild, uninhabited region. The words rendered in the Authorized Version by "desert," when used in the historical books denote definite localities.

ARABAH. This word means that very depressed and enclosed region--the deepest and the hottest chasm in the world--the sunken valley north and south of the Dead Sea, but more particularly the former. [ARABAH] Arabah in the sense of the Jordan valley is translated by the word "desert" only in (Ezekiel 47:8)
MIDBAR. This word, which our translators have most frequently rendered by "desert," is accurately "the pasture ground." It is most frequently used for those tracts of waste land which lie beyond the cultivated ground in the immediate neighborhood of the towns and villages of Palestine, and which are a very familiar feature to the traveller in that country. (Exodus 3:1; 6:3; 19:2)
CHARBAH appears to have the force of dryness, and thence of desolation. It is rendered "desert" in Psal 102:6; Isai 48:21; Ezek 13:4 The term commonly employed for it in the Authorized Version is "waste places" or "desolation."
JESHIMON, with the definite article, apparently denotes the waste tracts on both sides of the Dead Sea. In all these cases it is treated as a proper name in the Authorized Version. Without the article it occurs in a few passages of poetry in the following of which it is rendered; "desert:" (Psalms 78:40; 106:14; Isaiah 43:19,20)

ATS Bible Dictionary

Desert

The Scriptures, by "desert," generally mean an uncultivated place, a wilderness, or grazing tract. Some deserts were entirely fry and barren; others were beautiful, and had good pastures. David speaks of the beauty of the desert, Psalm 65:12,13. Scripture names several deserts in the Holy Land. Other deserts particularly mentioned, are "that great and terrible wilderness" in Arabia Petraea, south of Canaan, Numbers 21:20; also the region between Canaan and the Euphrates, Exodus 23:31 De 11:24. The pastures of this wilderness are clothed in winter and spring with rich and tender herbage; but the heat of summer soon burns this up, and the Arabs are driven to seek pasturage elsewhere.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(1.) Hebrews midbar, "pasture-ground;" an open tract for pasturage; a common (Joel 2:22). The "backside of the desert" (Exodus 3:1) is the west of the desert, the region behind a man, as the east is the region in front. The same Hebrew word is rendered "wildernes," and is used of the country lying between Egypt and Palestine (Genesis 21:14, 21; Exodus 4:27; 19:2; Joshua 1:4), the wilderness of the wanderings. It was a grazing tract, where the flocks and herds of the Israelites found pasturage during the whole of their journey to the Promised Land.

The same Hebrew word is used also to denote the wilderness of Arabia, which in winter and early spring supplies good pasturage to the flocks of the nomad tribes than roam over it (1 Kings 9:18).

The wilderness of Judah is the mountainous region along the western shore of the Dead Sea, where David fed his father's flocks (1 Samuel 17:28; 26:2). Thus in both of these instances the word denotes a country without settled inhabitants and without streams of water, but having good pasturage for cattle; a country of wandering tribes, as distinguished from that of a settled people (Isaiah 35:1; 50:2; Jeremiah 4:11). Such, also, is the meaning of the word "wilderness" in Matthew 3:3; 15:33; Luke 15:4.

(2.) The translation of the Hebrew Aribah', "an arid tract" (Isaiah 35:1, 6; 40:3; 41:19; 51:3, etc.). The name Arabah is specially applied to the deep valley of the Jordan (the Ghor of the Arabs), which extends from the lake of Tiberias to the Elanitic gulf. While midbar denotes properly a pastoral region, arabah denotes a wilderness. It is also translated "plains;" as "the plains of Jericho" (Joshua 5:10; 2 Kings 25:5), "the plains of Moab" (Numbers 22:1; Deuteronomy 34:1, 8), "the plains of the wilderness" (2 Samuel 17:16).

(3.) In the Revised Version of Numbers 21:20 the Hebrew word jeshimon is properly rendered "desert," meaning the waste tracts on both shores of the Dead Sea. This word is also rendered "desert" in Psalm 78:40; 106:14; Isaiah 43:19, 20. It denotes a greater extent of uncultivated country than the other words so rendered. It is especially applied to the desert of the peninsula of Arabia (Numbers 21:20; 23:28), the most terrible of all the deserts with which the Israelites were acquainted. It is called "the desert" in Exodus 23:31; Deuteronomy 11:24. (see JESHIMON.)

(4.) A dry place; hence a desolation (Psalm 9:6), desolate (Leviticus 26:34); the rendering of the Hebrew word horbah'. It is rendered "desert" only in Psalm 102:6, Isaiah 48:21, and Ezek. 13:4, where it means the wilderness of Sinai.

(5.) This word is the symbol of the Jewish church when they had forsaken God (Isaiah 40:3). Nations destitute of the knowledge of God are called a "wilderness" (32:15, midbar). It is a symbol of temptation, solitude, and persecution (Isaiah 27:10, midbar_; 33:9, _arabah).

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.

2. (n.) A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation.

3. (n.) A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.

4. (a.) of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.

5. (v. t.) To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country.

6. (v. t.) To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors.

7. (v. i.) To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

DESERT

dez'-ert midhbar, chorbah, yeshimon, `arabhah, tsiyah, tohu; eremos, eremia: Midhbar, the commonest word for "desert," more often rendered "wilderness," is perhaps from the root dabhar, in the sense of "to drive," i.e. a place for driving or pasturing flocks. Yeshimon is from yasham, "to be empty", chorbah (compare Arabic kharib, "to lie waste"; khirbah, "a ruin"; kharab, "devastation"), from charabh "to be dry"; compare also `arabh, "to be dry," and `arabhah, "a desert" or "the Arabah" (see CHAMPAIGN). For 'erets tsiyah (Psalm 63:1 Isaiah 41:18), "a dry land," compare tsiyim, "wild beasts of the desert" (Isaiah 13:21, etc.). Tohu, variously rendered "without form" (Genesis 1:2 the King James Version), "empty space," the King James Version "empty place" (Job 26:7), "waste," the King James Version "nothing" (Job 6:18), "confusion," the Revised Version, margin, "wasteness" (Isaiah 24:10 the English Revised Version), may be compared with Arabic tah, "to go astray" at-Tih, "the desert of the wandering." In the New Testament we find eremos and eremia: "The child (John). was in the deserts till the day of his showing unto Israel" (Luke 1:80); "Our fathers did eat manna in the desert" (John 6:31 the King James Version).

The desert as known to the Israelites was not a waste of sand, as those are apt to imagine who have in mind the pictures of the Sahara. Great expanses of sand, it is true, are found in Arabia, but the nearest one, an-Nufud, was several days' journey distant from the farthest southeast reached by the Israelites in their wanderings. Most of the desert of Sinai and of Palestine is land that needs only water to make it fruitful. East of the Jordan, the line between "the desert" and "the sown" lies about along the line of the Chijaz railway. To the West there is barely enough water to support the crops of wheat; to the East there is too little. Near the line of demarcation, the yield of wheat depends strictly upon the rainfall. A few inches more or less of rain in the year determines whether the grain can reach maturity or not. The latent fertility of the desert lands is demonstrated by the season of scant rains, when they become carpeted with herbage and flowers. It is marvelous, too, how the camels, sheep and goats, even in the dry season, will find something to crop where the traveler sees nothing but absolute barrenness. The long wandering of the Israelites in "the desert" was made possible by the existence of food for their flocks and herds. Compare Psalm 65:11, 12: "Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; And thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the Wilderness. And the hills are girded with joy"; and also Joel 2:22: "The pastures of the wilderness do spring."

"The desert" or "the wilderness" (ha-midhbar) usually signifies the desert of the wandering, or the northern part of the Sinaitic Peninsula. Compare Exodus 3:1 King James Version: "MOSES. led theflock (of Jethro) to the backside of the desert"; Exodus 5:3 King James Version: "Let us go. three days' journey into the desert"; Exodus 19:2 King James Version: "They. were come to the desert of Sinai"; Exodus 23:31 King James Version: "I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river" (Euphrates). Other uncultivated or pasture regions are known as Wilderness of Beersheba (Genesis 21:14), West of Judah (Judges 1:16), West of En-gedi (1 Samuel 24:1), West of Gibeon (2 Samuel 2:24), West of Maon (1 Samuel 23:24), West of Damascus; compare Arabic Badiyet-ush-Sham (1 Kings 19:15), etc. Midhbar yam, "the wilderness of the sea" (Isaiah 21:1), may perhaps be that part of Arabia bordering upon the Persian Gulf.

Aside from the towns and fields, practically all the land was midhbar or "desert," for this term included mountain, plain and valley. The terms, "desert of En-gedi," "desert of Maon," etc., do not indicate circumscribed areas, but are applied in a general way to the lands about these places. To obtain water, the shepherds with their flocks traverse long distances to the wells, springs or streams, usually arranging to reach the water about the middle of the day and rest about it for an hour or so, taking shelter from the sun in the shadows of the rocks, perhaps under some overhanging ledge.

Alfred Ely Day

Greek

1459. egkataleipo -- to leave behind, ie (in a good sense) let ...
... 1458, 1459. egkataleipo. 1460 . to leave behind, ie (in a good sense)
let remain over or (in a bad sense) desert. Part of Speech ...
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2048. eremos -- solitary, desolate
... desolate. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: eremos Phonetic Spelling:
(er'-ay-mos) Short Definition: deserted, desolate, a desert Definition: as an adj ...
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2047. eremia -- a solitude, a wilderness
... a solitude, a wilderness. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: eremia
Phonetic Spelling: (er-ay-mee'-ah) Short Definition: a desert place Definition ...
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447. aniemi -- to send up, produce, send back
... 447 (from 303 , "up" and 2447 , "send") -- properly, so as to loosen; ("sink");
fail to uphold; to desert (abandon), especially what has already been trusted ...
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3346. metatithemi -- to transfer, change
... change. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: metatithemi Phonetic Spelling:
(met-at-ith'-ay-mee) Short Definition: I transfer, desert, change Definition: (a) ...
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620. apoleipo -- to leave, leave behind
... leave behind. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: apoleipo Phonetic Spelling:
(ap-ol-ipe'-o) Short Definition: I leave, leave behind, desert, am reserved ...
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504. anudros -- waterless
... Transliteration: anudros Phonetic Spelling: (an'-oo-dros) Short Definition: without
water, dry Definition: without water, dry; subst: dry places, desert. ...
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2641. kataleipo -- to leave, leave behind
... Verb Transliteration: kataleipo Phonetic Spelling: (kat-al-i'-po) Short Definition:
I leave behind, abandon Definition: I leave behind, desert, abandon, forsake ...
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3131. manna -- manna
... Phonetic Spelling: (man'-nah) Short Definition: manna Definition: (Hebrew), manna,
the supernatural food eaten by the Israelites in the desert: of spiritual ...
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3845. parabaino -- to go by the side of, to go past
... Speech: Verb Transliteration: parabaino Phonetic Spelling: (par-ab-ah'-ee-no) Short
Definition: I transgress Definition: I transgress, violate, depart, desert. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6160. arabah -- a steppe or desert plain, also a desert valley ...
... 6159, 6160. arabah. 6161 . a steppe or desert plain, also a desert valley
running S. from the Sea of Galilee. Transliteration: arabah ...
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6728. tsiyyi -- wild beast of the desert, that dwell in inhabiting ...
... tsiyyi. 6729 . wild beast of the desert, that dwell in inhabiting the wilderness.
Transliteration: tsiyyi Phonetic Spelling: (tsee-ee') Short Definition: desert ...
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6947. Qadesh Barnea -- a place in the desert
... Qadesh Barnea. 6948 . a place in the desert. Transliteration: Qadesh Barnea Phonetic
Spelling: (kaw-dashe' bar-nay'-ah) Short Definition: Kadesh-barnea. ...
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6716b. tsi -- (a wild animal) perhaps desert dweller
... 6716a, 6716b. tsi. 6717 . (a wild animal) perhaps desert dweller.
Transliteration: tsi Short Definition: creatures. Word Origin ...
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1142. Bene Yaaqan -- "sons of Jaakan," a place in the desert
... Bene Yaaqan. 1143 . "sons of Jaakan," a place in the desert. Transliteration:
Bene Yaaqan Phonetic Spelling: (ben-ay' yah-ak-awn') Short Definition: Bene-jaakan ...
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1850. Dophqah -- a place in the desert
... 1849, 1850. Dophqah. 1851 . a place in the desert. Transliteration: Dophqah
Phonetic Spelling: (dof-kaw') Short Definition: Dophkah. ...
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6758. Tsalmonah -- a place in the desert
... 6757, 6758. Tsalmonah. 6759 . a place in the desert. Transliteration: Tsalmonah
Phonetic Spelling: (tsal-mo-naw') Short Definition: Zalmonah. Word Origin fem ...
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883. Beer Lachay Roi -- "well of the living One that sees me," a ...
Beer Lachay Roi. 882, 883. Beer Lachay Roi. 884 . "well of the living One that
sees me," a place in the desert. Transliteration: Beer Lachay Roi Phonetic ...
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7428. Rimmon Parets -- "pomegranate of the breach," a place in the ...
... "pomegranate of the breach," a place in the desert. Transliteration: Rimmon Parets
Phonetic Spelling: (rim-mone' peh'-rets) Short Definition: Rimmon-perez. ...
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2832. Chashmonah -- a place in the S. desert
... Chashmonah. 2833 . a place in the S. desert. Transliteration: Chashmonah Phonetic
Spelling: (khash-mo-naw') Short Definition: Hashmonah. Word Origin fem. ...
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Library

Rivers in the Desert
... Rivers in the Desert. TP Revelation 22.I. Glorious River of God's pleasures,. ...
Lo! the desert is God's garden,. And the wastes are Paradise. ...
/.../bevan/hymns of ter steegen suso and others/rivers in the desert.htm

A Meeting in the Desert
... A MEETING IN THE DESERT. 'And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying,
Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/a meeting in the desert.htm

A Death in the Desert
... THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY A DEATH IN THE DESERT. 'So Moses the servant of
the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/a death in the desert.htm

The Heath in the Desert and the Tree by the River
... THE HEATH IN THE DESERT AND THE TREE BY THE RIVER. ... In the one, the hot desert stretches
on all sides. The fierce 'sunbeams like swords' slay every green thing. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/the heath in the desert.htm

In the Desert
... CHAPTER XIX IN THE DESERT. ... They were in the hideous heart of the desert to
whom death was monotony, resisting foreign life, an insult. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xix in the desert.htm

Moses in the Desert.
... ORIGINAL HYMNS HYMN XLVIII. Moses in the Desert. 8.8.8.8 James Montgomery.
Moses in the Desert. Go where a foot hath never trod,. ...
/.../montgomery/sacred poems and hymns/hymn xlviii moses in the.htm

Jesus in the Desert.
... THE NEW TESTAMENT. CHAPTER VII. JESUS IN THE DESERT. The people were looking
for the promised Messiah, and would have welcomed John ...
/.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter vii jesus in the.htm

Of the Advantages of the Desert.
... The Conferences of John Cassian. Chapter V. Of the advantages of the desert.
So long then as owing to the fewness of those who were ...
/.../cassian/the conferences of john cassian/chapter v of the advantages.htm

God Sent Me to the Desert Wild,
... ASPIRATIONS God sent me to the desert wild,. 8,8,8,8,8,8 tr., John Brownlie. I.
God sent me to the desert wild,. Where all is parched with endless drought,. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/brownlie/hymns from the east/god sent me to the.htm

"Not Far from the Desert, and Close to the Nile...
... Chapter X. "Not far from the desert, and close to the Nile� "Not far from the
desert, and close to the Nile, there are numerous monasteries. ...
/.../severus/life and writings of sulpitius severus /chapter x not far from.htm

Subtopics

Desert

Desert, Journey of Israel Through The: All Formerly Numbered Over Twenty Years Old, Except Caleb

Desert, Journey of Israel Through The: Called Meribah to Commemorate the Murmuring

Desert, Journey of Israel Through The: Guilty Spies Slain by Plague

Desert, Journey of Israel Through The: Israel Seduced to Idolatry by Advice of Balaam

Desert, Journey of Israel Through The: Moses Commanded to Send Spies

Desert, Journey of Israel Through The: Moses Striking the Rock Instead of Speaking to It, Disobeys

Desert, Journey of Israel Through The: Murmuring of the Mixed Multitude and of Israel, for Flesh

Desert, Journey of Israel Through The: People Smitten by Amalek for Going up Without the Lord

Desert, Journey of Israel Through The: Persons Selected As Spies

Desert, Journey of Israel Through The: Punishment for Rebellion