Gematria of Wilderness
6 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “wilderness” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 2,884 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 6
- Occurrences
- 2,884
- Distinct values
- 6
The 6 Hebrew words rendered “wilderness”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:1בראשית א:אהָאָֽרֶץ
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
First appearance ·Genesis 14:6בראשית יד:והַמִּדְבָּֽר
a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea
First appearance ·Numbers 22:1במדבר כב:אבְּעַֽרְבוֹת
a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
First appearance ·Genesis 1:2בראשית א:בתֹהוּ
aridity; concretely, a desert
First appearance ·Isaiah 35:1ישעיהו לה:אוְצִיָּה
a desolation
First appearance ·Numbers 21:20במדבר כא:כהַיְשִׁימֹֽן
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of wilderness?
The Tanakh renders “wilderness” with 6 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: ארץ = 291, מדבר = 246, ערבה = 277, and 3 more.
How do you say wilderness in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 6 Hebrew words for “wilderness”; the most frequent are ארץ (ʼerets), 2,504 times; מדבר (midbâr), 271 times; ערבה (ʻărâbâh), 60 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.