'Wilderness' in the Bible

And the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El-Paran, which is at the wilderness.

And the angel of Yahweh found her at a spring of water in the wilderness, at the spring by the road of Shur.

Then Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave [it] to Hagar, putting [it] on her shoulder. And he sent her away with the child, and she went, wandering about in the wilderness, in Beersheba.

And God was with the boy, and he grew and lived in the wilderness. And he became {an expert with a bow}.

And he lived in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.