What does מִדְבָּר · סִינַי mean in the Bible?
מִדְבָּר · סִינַי is a Hebrew phrase meaning "wilderness of Sinai".
Hebrew · H4057, H5514
מִדְבַּר סִינַי
A pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert ; also speech (including its organs) · Sinai , mountain of Arabia
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מִדְבָּר H4057 a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert ; also speech (including its organs)
Pronunciation midbar
Open grazing land metonymically shifted to wilderness; also designates the mouth as an organ of speech.
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סִינַי H5514 Sinai , mountain of Arabia
Pronunciation siynay
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What does מִדְבַּר סִינַי (midbar Sinai) mean in the Bible?
מִדְבָּר · סִינַי is a Hebrew phrase meaning "wilderness of Sinai".
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How many biblical occurrences are listed for H4057, H5514?
H4057, H5514 is connected to 306 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Evidence Summary
Hebrew phrase. wilderness of Sinai
Strong's H4057, H5514
Lexical occurrences 306 verses Source Gloss
wilderness of Sinai
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
Word Origins
מִדְבַּר סִינַי is built from this root:
Cross-Language Connections
Greek words that correspond to or develop the meaning of this Hebrew word in the New Testament.
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain