KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Wildernesses or desolate places. Sense 2: What persons or actions deserve.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Isaiah 48:21
Complete exact-word concordance
And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rocke for them: he claue the rocke also, and the waters gushed out.
1611 marginal noteExod. 17.6. num. 20.11.
Neither said they, Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Neither sayd they, Where is the LORD that brought vs vp out of the land of Egypt? that led vs through the wildernesse, through a land of deserts and of pittes, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed thorow, and where no man dwelt.
1611 marginal noteIsai.63.9, 11,13. ose. 13.4.
The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
The king shall mourne, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will doe vnto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I iudge them, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
1611 marginal noteHeb. with their iudgements.
O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.
And the childe grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts, till the day of his shewing vnto Israel.
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Of whome the world was not worthy: they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dennes and caues of the earth.
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