'Wilderness' in the Bible

and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

And the angel of Jehovah found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

And God was with the lad, and he grew. And he dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; this is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.

And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood; cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him: that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.