Lexical Summary yeshimon: waste, wilderness Original Word: יְשִׁימוֹןTransliteration: yeshimon Phonetic Spelling: (yesh-ee-mone') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: waste, wilderness Meaning: waste, wilderness Strong's Concordance desert, Jeshimon, solitary, wilderness From yasham; a desolation -- desert, Jeshimon, solitary, wilderness. see HEBREW yasham Brown-Driver-Briggs H3452. yeshimon יְשִׁימוֺן noun masculine waste, wilderness; — absolute יְשִׁימוֺן 1 Samuel 23:19 5t.; יְשִׁימֹן Numbers 21:20 3t.; יְשִׁמוֺן Isaiah 43:19; יְשִׁמֹן Deuteronomy 32:10; construct יְשִׁימוֺן Psalm 107:4; — waste, wilderness: a. with article, almost proper name Numbers 21:20 (commanded by Pisgah), 23:28 (by Pe`or; both J E), frequented by David as an outlaw 1 Samuel 23:19, 24; 26:1, 3. Probably some part of the wilderness of Judah, bordering on Dead Sea (ConderTent work, ch. 15; BuhlGeogr. § 61); according to others, at least in Numbers (see Di), part of the `Arábah, northeast of the Dead Sea (in which was הַיְשִׁימֹת בֵּית Numbers 33:49 and elsewhere) b. without article, a waste or wilderness (only in poetry), of scene of Israel's wanderings (after the Exodus), יְשׁ יְלֵל ׳בְּתֹהוּ Deuteronomy 32:10 ("" מִדְבָּר בְּאֶרֶץ), Psalm 68:8; 78:40; 106:14; with reference to returning exiles Isaiah 43:19-20, ׳י דֶּרֶךְ Psalm 107:4 waste of a way ( = desert way). |