Wilderness in the Bible: 305 times in the King James Version | Thy Word is True

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wilderness KJV

“Wilderness” is in the King James Bible 305 times, in 294 verses. Jump to the verses ↓

מדבּר midbâr 256 times
ἔρημος erēmos 32 times
ערבה ‛ărâbâh 5 times
ἐρημία erēmia 3 times
ציּי tsı̂yı̂y 3 times
ישׁימון yeshı̂ymôn 2 times
ציּה tsı̂yâh 2 times
תּהוּ tôhû 2 times
ארץ 'erets 1 time

translating H6160

5 verses translating H6160 Show all

Job

24:5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
39:6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

Isaiah

33:9 The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

Jeremiah

51:43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

Amos

6:14 But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.

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