Reference: Wilderness, Desert
Hastings
These terms stand for several Heb. and Gr. words, with different shades of meaning.
1. midb
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And the earth was desolation and emptiness, and darkness over the face of the deep: and the spirit of God moved over the face of the waters.
He will find him in the land of the desert, In a waste howling desolation: He will encompass him about; he will teach him, He will keep him as the pupil of the eye.
In the desert, the House of Arabah, Middin, and Secacah, And Nibshan, and the City of Salt, and the Fountain of Engedi; six cities and their enclosures.
The paths of their way will turn aside; they will go up into desolation and perish.
Behold, wild asses in the desert will go forth in their work, seeking for prey: the sterile region bread for him, and for the young.
In want and in hunger, barren, gnawing the dry land, yesternight desolation and burning.
And they will yet add to sin against him to embitter the Most High in a dry land.
I was like to the pelican of the desert: I was as the owl of the dry places.
The desert and its cities shall lift up, the enclosures shall Kedar inhabit: they inhabiting the rock shall shout for joy, from the head of the mountains they shall shout for joy.
And they thirsted not causing them to go in dry places: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: and he will cleave asunder the rock, and the waters will flow out
A wild ass accustomed to the desert in gratifying her soul, panting after the wind in her heat; who shall turn her back? all seeking her will not be wearied; in her new moon they shall find her.
Also the dragons draw out the breast, they suckled their sucklings: the daughter of my people violent as the ostriches in the desert.
And I hated Esau, and I will set his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance for the jackals of the desert