'Wilderness' in the Bible

and behold, there came a great wind from over the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they died; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee.

Lo, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness yieldeth them food for their children.

To cause it to rain on the earth, where no one is; on the wilderness wherein there is not a man;

Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?