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wilderness

Meaning of “wilderness”

Uncultivated, desolate, sparsely inhabited, or uninhabited land; a desert, wild country, or solitary region.

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304 occurrences293 verses36 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 14:6

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Hebrews 3:8
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
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Harden not your hearts, as in the prouocation, in the day of temptation in the wildernesse:

Hebrews 3:17
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
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But with whom was he grieued fourty yeeres? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wildernesse?

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