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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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First occurrence: Genesis 14:6

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Acts 7:36
He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Acts 7:36 · retained source text

He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signes in the land of Egypt, and in the red Sea, and in the wildernesse fortie yeeres.

1611 marginal noteExod. 7.9.

1611 marginal noteExo. 16.1

Acts 7:38
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Acts 7:38 · retained source text

This is he that was in y e Church in the wildernesse with the Angel, which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who receiued the liuely oracles, to giue vnto vs.

1611 marginal noteExo. 19.3.

Acts 7:42
Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
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1611 witness · Acts 7:42 · retained source text

Then God turned, and gaue them vp to worship the hoste of heauen, as it is written in the booke of the Prophets, O ye house of Israel, haue ye offered to me slaine beasts, and sacrifices, by the space of fourty yeeres in the wildernesse?

1611 marginal noteAmos 5.25.

Acts 7:44
Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Acts 7:44 · retained source text

Our fathers had the Tabernacle of witnesse in the wildernesse, as hee had appointed, speaking vnto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seene.

1611 marginal noteExod. 25.40.

Acts 13:18
And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Acts 13:18 · retained source text

And about the time of fourtie yeeres suffered he their maners in the wildernesse.

1611 marginal noteGr [illegible Greek] perhaps, for [illegible Greek], as a nurse beareth or feedeth her childe, Deut. 1.31. 2.macc 7.27,according to the Sept. and so Chrysost.

1611 marginal noteExod. 13.16.

Acts 21:38
Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
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1611 witness · Acts 21:38 · retained source text

Art not thou that Egyptian which before these daies madest an vprore, and leddest out into the wildernesse foure thousand men that were murtherers?

1611 marginal noteChap. 5.36.

1 Corinthians 10:5
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
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1611 witness · 1 Corinthians 10:5 · retained source text

But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were ouerthrowen in the wildernesse.

2 Corinthians 11:26
In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
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1611 witness · 2 Corinthians 11:26 · retained source text

In iourneying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by my owne countreymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the citie, in perils in the wildernesse, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren,

Hebrews 3:8
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Hebrews 3:8 · retained source text

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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1611 witness · Hebrews 3:17 · retained source text

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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