Words the Bible translates as desert
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 10 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- apostrephōἀποστρέφωto turn away or turn back: to send a person or thing away from what it was facing, and so to remove it, put it back, or refuse it
- erēmosἔρημοςdeserted: empty of people, whether a wild stretch of country, a quiet out-of-the-way spot, or a place or person left forsaken.
- naphalנָפַלto fall: to go down from standing or from above, a picture Hebrew stretches to cover being killed, bowing to the ground, being overthrown, deserting to an enemy, and a share falling to someone by lot
- midbarמִדְבָּרwilderness: the open, unsettled, unwatered country beyond the farms and towns, where flocks graze and travelers cross at risk
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- mouth: the opening one speaks with, named for the act of speech
- egkataleipōἐγκαταλείπωto abandon someone: to walk away and leave a person stranded in the very trouble they needed you for
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- to leave someone or something remaining: to let a survivor or a remainder be left when the rest is gone
- aravahעֲרָבָהa dry, treeless lowland plain; with the article, the Arabah, the great rift valley of the Jordan and Dead Sea
- gemulגְּמוּלa dealing: what one person does to another, or the matching return that deed earns; most often a deserved recompense.
- tsiyyahצִיָּהdry, waterless land: parched, sun-baked ground where nothing grows, and the drought that leaves it so.
- yeshimonיְשִׁימוֹןa barren waste: empty, waterless country where nothing grows and no one lives
- erēmiaἐρημίαdesertnot studied yet
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