יְשִׁימוֹן
yᵉshîymôwn · H3452 · Hebrew · 13 occurrences
Place
Meanings
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wilderness, Jeshimon
Area without water and therefore without vegetation and settlers; sometimes taken as the name of one specific region
ExamplesNumbers 21:20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the land of Moab, at the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the desert.
Numbers 23:28 So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the desert.
Deuteronomy 32:10 “He found him in a desert land, And in the howling wasteland of a wilderness; He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דֶּרֶךְway, road 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 9
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
6 occurrences in 2 groups
- פָּנִיםface, presence, before 4
- יָמִיןright side 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- שְׁמָמָה shᵉmâmâh · H8077 · desolation, horror
- Both words denote barren, uninhabited land, different words for overlapping concepts of wasteland and wilderness; שְׁמָמָה (shᵉmâmâh, H8077) also extends to emotional desolation, and is glossed "desolation, horror."
In the other Testament 2 words
- ἔρημος érēmos · G2048 · uninhabited, deserted, desert
- ἔρημος (érēmos, G2048) ἔρημος denotes wilderness/desert/desolate place as the standard Greek lexical equivalent for יְשִׁימוֹן (yᵉshîymôwn, H3452) יְשִׁימוֹן's desert/wilderness sense, representing direct translation equivalence across Hebrew and Greek for barren, uninhabited terrain.
- ἄνυδρος ánydros · G504 · waterless, dry
- Greek ἄνυδρος (waterless) renders Hebrew יְשִׁימוֹן (desert/wilderness) by emphasizing the defining characteristic of such terrain—the absence of water—rather than using a direct wilderness term like ἔρημος.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Non-Contain002002001004
- The word names an open wasteland or wilderness, an unbounded space rather than an enclosed area, as in its glossed sense "desert... solitary, wilderness."
- Landscapes001002004
- The word names a wilderness or desert landscape, the barren terrain associated with Jeshimon and similar wilderness regions.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3452. yeshimon יְשִׁימוֺן noun masculine waste, wilderness; — absolute יְשִׁימוֺן 1Sa…
יְשִׁימוֺן noun masculine waste, wilderness; — absolute יְשִׁימוֺן 1Sa 23:19 1Sa 23:5t.; יְשִׁימֹן Num 21:20 Num 21:3t.; יְשִׁמוֺן Isa 43:19; יְשִׁמֹן Deu 32:10; construct יְשִׁימוֺן Psa 107:4; — waste, wilderness:
a. with article, almost proper name Num 21:20 (commanded by Pisgah), Num 23:28 (by Pe`or; both J E), frequented by David as an outlaw 1Sa 23:19, 1Sa 23:24; 1Sa 26:1, 1Sa 26:3. Probably some part of the wilderness of Judah, bordering on Dead Sea (ConderTent work, ch. 15; BuhlGeogr. § 61); according to others, at least in Numbers (see Di), part of the `Arábah, northeast of the Dead Sea (in which was הַיְשִׁימֹת בֵּית Num 33:49 and elsewhere) b. without article, a waste or wilderness (only in poetry), of scene of Israel's wanderings (after the Exodus), יְשׁ יְלֵל ׳בְּתֹהוּ Deu 32:10 (|| מִדְבָּר בְּאֶרֶץ), Psa 68:8; Psa 78:40; Psa 106:14; with reference to returning exiles Isa 43:19-20, ׳י דֶּרֶךְ Psa 107:4 waste of a way ( = desert way).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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