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 without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness. He compassed him about. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.
In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah, and Nibshan, and the City of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages.
The caravans [that travel] by the way of them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.
Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness [yields] them bread for their sons.
They are gaunt with want and famine. They gnaw the dry ground in the gloom of waste and desolation.
Yet they went on to still sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.
Let the wilderness and the cities of it lift up [their voice], the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains.
And they did not thirst when he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He also split the rock, and the waters gushed out.
a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs up the wind in her desire. In her time of estrus who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month they shall find her.
Even the jackals draw out the breast; they give suck to their young ones. The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
but Esau I regarded inferior, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.