Joshua 15:61

Paleo Hebrew Niqqud

RBT Hebrew Interlinear:

במדבר בַּמִּדְבָּר

in the Desolate/Word-Wilderness

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

ב

bə

Definition

in, by

Root

A primitive particle; a prefix

Exhaustive

(beth) — in / within / by means of

Core value: interiority, enclosure, participation

ב does not primarily mean “in time” (“when”) or even “in space.” It marks being inside a domain, whether that domain is:
- spatial (house, land),
- conceptual (wisdom, covenant),
- modal (strength, fear),
- instrumental (by means of).
Aonically, ב marks immersion.
not “when X happened” but “within the state or field of X.”
This is why ב־יום does not need to mean “on the day (chronological)” but “within the day-realm / condition”.

Source: The Aonic Nature of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

מדבר

midbâr

Definition

a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)

Root

from H1696 (דבר) in the sense of driving;

Exhaustive

from דבר in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs); desert, south, speech, wilderness.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H4057

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

מִדְבָּר

noun • Root דבר • Strongs / High • Page 351

Wilderness, pasture. Derived from דָּבַר II (to lead cattle to pasture).

מִדְבָּר

noun masculine • Root דבר • Strongs / High • Page 810

1. pasture, pasture land, a plain where grass plots are dried up from want of rain; then a steppe. 2. a dry, sterile wilderness. 3. lodge; then a desert generally, an uninhabited, forsaken place.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

מִדְבָּר

m. verbal / dec. ii. b. • Root דבר • Page 355

1. Speech (Cant. 4:3). 2. A wilderness, uncultivated barren country (Ps. 65:13). 3. An actual waste, a sandy desert (Is. 32:15).

Preposition -Within Art, Noun common both singular absolute

LXX: ἐρήμῳ ἔρημον ἐρήμου ἔρημοσ pεἰσ

LXX Usage Statistics

H4057b:

ἐρήμῳ 128× (40.3%)

ἔρημον 60× (21.3%)

ἐρήμου 42× (15.1%)

ἔρημοσ 10× (4.2%)

pεἰσ 7× (3.0%)

ὡσ 6× (2.7%)

'' 6× (2.3%)

--- 2× (0.9%)

πεδίον 2× (0.8%)

בית בֵּ֚ית

house

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

בית הערבה

Bêyth hâ-ʻĂrâbâh

Definition

Beth-ha-Arabah, a place in Palestine

Root

from H1004 (בית) and H6160 (ערבה) with the article interposed; house of the Desert;

Exhaustive

from בית and ערבה with the article interposed; house of the Desert; Beth-ha-Arabah, a place in Palestine; Beth-arabah.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H1026

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

עֲרָבָה

fem. / noun proper feminine • Consonantal / Low • Page 1130

1. A wilderness, a waste, of the destroyed environs of Jerusalem. 2. (steppe-place) n. p. of a locality, perhaps identical with the later עֶרֶב in Galilee.

Matched after stripping common prefixes

עֲרָבָה

noun feminine • Root ערב • Consonantal / Low • Page 1130

(from עָרַב II.) 1. A thick, dark cloud, on which God moves along. 2. A wilderness, of that between Babylon and Palestine; waste plains and tracts between Moab and Edom.

Matched after stripping common prefixes

עֲרָבָה

noun • Root ערב • Consonantal / Low • Page 1130

II. A wilderness, of that between Babylon and Palestine (Is. 35, 1), or a steppe generally; specifically applied to the waste neighbourhood of the Dead Sea.

Matched after stripping common prefixes

עַרְבָה

noun feminine • Consonantal / Low • Page 1131

Willow tree, willow; valley, low ground; a richly watered meadow, particularly of the Jordan-mead; pasture.

Matched after stripping common prefixes

Noun proper name

LXX: θαραβααμ βαιθαραβα

LXX Usage Statistics

H1026:

θαραβααμ 2× (25.6%)

βαιθαραβα 2× (25.6%)

הערבה הָעֲרָבָה

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

בית הערבה

Bêyth hâ-ʻĂrâbâh

Definition

Beth-ha-Arabah, a place in Palestine

Root

from H1004 (בית) and H6160 (ערבה) with the article interposed; house of the Desert;

Exhaustive

from בית and ערבה with the article interposed; house of the Desert; Beth-ha-Arabah, a place in Palestine; Beth-arabah.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H1026

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

עֲרָבָה

fem. / noun proper feminine • Consonantal / Low • Page 1130

1. A wilderness, a waste, of the destroyed environs of Jerusalem. 2. (steppe-place) n. p. of a locality, perhaps identical with the later עֶרֶב in Galilee.

Matched after stripping common prefixes

עֲרָבָה

noun feminine • Root ערב • Consonantal / Low • Page 1130

(from עָרַב II.) 1. A thick, dark cloud, on which God moves along. 2. A wilderness, of that between Babylon and Palestine; waste plains and tracts between Moab and Edom.

Matched after stripping common prefixes

עֲרָבָה

noun • Root ערב • Consonantal / Low • Page 1130

II. A wilderness, of that between Babylon and Palestine (Is. 35, 1), or a steppe generally; specifically applied to the waste neighbourhood of the Dead Sea.

Matched after stripping common prefixes

עַרְבָה

noun feminine • Consonantal / Low • Page 1131

Willow tree, willow; valley, low ground; a richly watered meadow, particularly of the Jordan-mead; pasture.

Matched after stripping common prefixes

Noun proper name

LXX: θαραβααμ βαιθαραβα

LXX Usage Statistics

H1026:

θαραβααμ 2× (25.6%)

βαιθαραβα 2× (25.6%)

מדין מִדּין

Strife/Quarrel/Midian

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

מדין

Middîyn

Definition

{Midjan, a son of Abraham; also his country and (collectively) his descendants}

Root

a variation for H4080 (מדין)

Exhaustive

a variation for מדין; {Midjan, a son of Abraham; also his country and (collectively) his descendants}; Middin.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H4081

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

מִדְיָן

noun proper • Consonantal / Medium • Page 813

A son of Abraham by Keturah; also an Arabian tribe, the Midianites.

Matched via consonantal key only

מִדְיָן

noun masculine / noun proper • Root דין • Consonantal / Medium • Page 814

1. Contention (only in plural). 2. Proper name of a son of Abraham by Keturah; then of a tribe.

Matched via consonantal key only

מִדִּין

noun proper • Root מדד • Consonantal / Medium • Page 813

Stretch, extension. As a proper noun, a city in the plain of Judah.

Matched via consonantal key only

Noun proper name

LXX:

LXX Usage Statistics

H4081:

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וסככה וּסְכָכָה׃

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

ו

wə

Definition

and

Root

From H8505; a prefix

Exhaustive

The conjunctive ו is not merely a fixed coordinator with a stable semantic value (“and/but/or/then”). Its core function is linkage, not meaning. It binds units into a single discourse field—phrases, clauses, or whole scenes—while leaving the logical relation to be inferred from aspect, word order, genre, and context.

So the variability in translation (“and / but / or / even / then”) is not polyvalence in the particle; it is underspecification by design. The language expects the reader/hearer to perceive the relation rather than have it encoded.

Crucially, conjunctive ו does not imply temporal sequence. It implies continuity of attention. Think of it as:
- “this belongs with what precedes,”
- “remain within the same frame,”
“do not reset the discourse.”
This is why Hebrew can chain dozens of clauses with ו without subordination or explicit logic markers. The text advances by accumulation, not by branching syntactic trees. Meaning arises from the interaction:
- Aspect (qatal / yiqtol / participle),
- Position (fronted elements, resumptive nouns),
- Genre (law, narrative, oracle),
- Context (who speaks, to whom).
The ו simply keeps the circuit closed so these cues can operate together. Remove tense assumptions, and the system becomes coherent.

Source: The Aonic Nature of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

סככה

Çᵉkâkâh

Definition

Secacah, a place in Palestine

Root

from H5526 (סכך); inclosure;

Exhaustive

from סכך; inclosure; Secacah, a place in Palestine; Secacah.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H5527

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

סָכְכָה

noun proper • Consonantal / Low • Page 1020

Name of a city in the steppe of the Judah territory (meaning enclosure, hedging about).

Matched after stripping common prefixes

סֹכֵכָה

noun masculine • Root סכך • Consonantal / Low • Page 1020

A shed, a protecting cover, a storming cover, vinea, testudo, an instrument of war used by besiegers.

Matched after stripping common prefixes

Conjunction, Noun proper name

LXX:

LXX Usage Statistics

H5527:

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RBT Translation:

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RBT Paraphrase:
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Julia Smith Literal 1876 Translation:
In the desert, the House of Arabah, Middin, and Secacah,

LITV Translation:
In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah,

Brenton Septuagint Translation:
and Baddargeis, and Beth-arabah, and Aenon;