יְשִׁימוֹן
wilderness
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H3452 appears in the Book of Psalms — 4 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Psalms
- Psalms 68:7 בִֽ/ישִׁימ֣וֹן prep + n c ms God, when you went forth before your people, When you marched through the wilderness... Selah.
- Psalms 78:40 בִּֽ/ישִׁימֽוֹן prep + n c ms How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, And grieved him in the desert!
- Psalms 106:14 בִּֽ/ישִׁימֽוֹן prep + n c ms But gave in to craving in the desert, And tested God in the wasteland.
- Psalms 107:4 בִּ/ישִׁימ֣וֹן prep + n c ms cs They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
ישימון (yᵉshîymôwn) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “wilderness.” The King James Version usually renders it “jeshimon,” while modern versions prefer “wasteland” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) — see the renderings breakdown. With 13 verses in 5 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. It concentrates in 1 Samuel, which alone accounts for 31% of its uses. Debuting at Numbers 21:20, it then recurs through the corpus. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3452 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,001
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,001 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 13 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 13 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 6 verses · 46%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 31%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 23%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Jeshimon 6×, Desert 4×
- American Standard Version: Desert 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Desert 4×, Jeshimon 4×, Wasteland 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Wasteland 5×, Jeshimon 4×, Desert 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3452 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3452 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3452 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3452 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- waste, wilderness, desert, desolate place
Word origin
יְשִׁימוֹן n.m. waste, wilderness
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from ישם (yâsham) (H3456) — to ruin.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H3452 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/יְשִׁימֹֽן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 26:1 | 3 |
| בִּֽ/ישִׁימֽוֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 78:40 | 2 |
| הַ/יְשִׁימֽוֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 23:19 | 2 |
| בִֽ/ישִׁימ֣וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 68:7 | 1 |
| בִּ/ישִׁימ֣וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 107:4 | 1 |
| בִּֽ/ישִׁימֹ֔ן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 43:20 | 1 |
| בִּֽ/ישִׁמ֖וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 43:19 | 1 |
| הַ/יְשִׁימֹ֖ן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 26:3 | 1 |
| יְשִׁמֹ֑ן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 32:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3452, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 12 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 13 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
