Definition

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

Etymology

from H1696 (דָבַר) in the sense of driving;

Word family

• דָבַר dâbar

How the KJV renders it

• desert
• south
• speech
• wilderness

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.