'Wilderness' in the Bible

and the Horites in their Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is by the wilderness.

Now the angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.

So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.

God was with the lad, and he grew; and he lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah—he is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness when he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.

Reuben further said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not lay hands on him”—that he might rescue him out of their hands, to restore him to his father.