The word in Scripture

Wilderness in the Bible

The word wilderness appears 304 times in the King James Version of the Bible. The wilderness is the barren place of testing and dependence. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What wilderness means in the Bible

The wilderness is the barren place of testing and dependence.

Where the word wilderness appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word wilderness appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.”Psalms 29:8

“He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.”Psalms 106:9

“The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.”Isaiah 33:9

“Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.”Isaiah 64:10

“And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?”Matthew 15:33

“He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.”John 1:23

“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:”John 3:14

“But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?”Hebrews 3:17