yeshimon · wasteland

What it means

yeshimon (יְשִׁימוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wasteland”.

Desolation: desert land with no inhabitants.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Dry land without people, where only those who flee or hide live.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• wasteland ×11
• desert ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×4
• Psalms×4
• Isaiah×2

• Numbers 21:20

  and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the country of Moab, at the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the wasteland.

• Numbers 23:28

  So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which looks down on the wasteland.

• Deuteronomy 32:10

  He found him in a land of wilderness, and in an emptiness of howling, a wasteland; he surrounded him, he cared for him, he guarded him like the pupil of his eye.

• 1 Samuel 23:19

  Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is to the south of the wasteland?

• 1 Samuel 23:24

  They arose and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah, to the south of the wasteland.

• 1 Samuel 26:1

  The Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is not David hiding on the hill of Hachilah, facing the wasteland?”

• 1 Samuel 26:3

  Saul camped on the hill of Hachilah, which is facing the wasteland, by the road. David was staying in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul had come after him into the wilderness.

• Psalms 68:7

  Elohim, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wasteland, Selah.

• Psalms 78:40

  How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, grieved him in the wasteland!

• Psalms 106:14

  And they had a great craving in the wilderness, and put El to the test in the desert.

• Psalms 107:4

  They wandered in the wilderness, in the desert; a way to a city to dwell in they did not find.

• Isaiah 43:19

  Look, I am doing a new thing; now it springs up; will you not know it? Indeed, I will make in the wilderness a way, in the wasteland rivers.

• Isaiah 43:20

  The animals of the field will honor me, jackals and ostriches, because I have given in the wilderness water, rivers in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen one.