What does נָאָה · מִדְבָּר mean in the Bible?
נָאָה · מִדְבָּר is a Hebrew phrase meaning "pastures of the wilderness".
Hebrew · H4999, H4057
נְאֹות מִדְבָּר
A home ; figuratively, a pasture · a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert ; also speech (including its organs)
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נָאָה H4999 a home ; figuratively, a pasture
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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What does נְאֹות מִדְבָּר (nĕʾôṯ miḏbār) mean in the Bible?
נָאָה · מִדְבָּר is a Hebrew phrase meaning "pastures of the wilderness".
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How many biblical occurrences are listed for H4999, H4057?
H4999, H4057 is connected to 283 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Evidence Summary
Hebrew phrase. pastures of the wilderness
Strong's H4999, H4057
Lexical occurrences 283 verses Source Gloss
pastures of the wilderness
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
Word Origins
נְאֹות מִדְבָּר 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