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 waste 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 asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness yieldeth them bread for their children.
They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.
Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice , the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
a wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that 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 is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.