Concordance

“Desert” in the Bible

115 verses contain “desert” (including word forms) in the Berean Standard Bible.

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Genesis 14:6 and the Horites in the area of Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert.
Genesis 16:7 Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.
Exodus 15:22 Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days they walked in the desert without finding water.
Exodus 16:1 …le congregation of Israel set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and…
Exodus 16:2 And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron.
Exodus 16:3 …nd ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to…
Exodus 16:10 And as Aaron was speaking to the whole congregation of Israel, they looked toward the desert, and there in a cloud the glory of the LORD appeared.
Exodus 16:14 When the layer of dew had evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground.
Exodus 17:1 Then the whole congregation of Israel left the Desert of Sin, moving from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the…
Exodus 18:5 Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, along with Moses’ wife and sons, came to him in the desert, where he was encamped at the mountain of God.
Exodus 23:31 …rom the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out…
Leviticus 11:18 the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,
Numbers 33:11 They set out from the Red Sea and camped in the Desert of Sin.
Numbers 33:12 They set out from the Desert of Sin and camped at Dophkah.
Deuteronomy 14:17 the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,
Deuteronomy 32:10 He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
Joshua 22:3 All this time you have not deserted your brothers, up to this very day, but have kept the charge given you by the LORD your God.
Judges 5:6 In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted and the travelers took the byways.
1 Samuel 13:8 And Saul waited seven days for the time appointed by Samuel, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the troops began to desert Saul.
1 Samuel 13:11 …l asked. And Saul replied, “When I saw that the troops were deserting me, and that you did not come at the appointed time and the Philistines were gathering at…
2 Samuel 20:2 So all the men of Israel deserted David to follow Sheba son of Bichri. But the men of Judah stayed by their king all the way from the Jordan to Jerusalem.
1 Kings 19:15 Then the LORD said to him, “Go back by the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you arrive, you are to anoint Hazael as king over Aram.
2 Kings 3:8 Then he asked, “Which way shall we go up?” “By way of the Desert of Edom,” replied Joram.
1 Chronicles 5:9 They also settled in the east as far as the edge of the desert that extends to the Euphrates River, because their livestock had increased in the land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 12:8 Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the desert. They were mighty men of valor, trained for battle, experts with the shield and spear, whose faces were…
2 Chronicles 26:10 …k in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the…
Job 1:19 when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have…
Job 24:5 Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
Job 38:26 to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
Psalms 69:25 May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.
Psalms 74:14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.
Psalms 75:6 For exaltation comes neither from east nor west, nor out of the desert,
Psalms 78:17 But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
Psalms 78:40 How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
Psalms 102:6 I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
Psalms 105:41 He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.
Psalms 106:9 He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.
Psalms 106:14 They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.
Psalms 107:4 Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell.
Psalms 107:33 He turns rivers into deserts, springs of water into thirsty ground,
Psalms 107:35 He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.
Proverbs 19:4 Wealth attracts many friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.
Proverbs 21:19 Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
Isaiah 13:21 But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.
Isaiah 14:17 who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
Isaiah 16:1 Send the tribute lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mount of Daughter Zion.
Isaiah 16:8 …es, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the…
Isaiah 21:1 This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.
Isaiah 23:13 …people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to…
Isaiah 27:10 For the fortified city lies deserted— a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
Isaiah 32:15 until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.
Isaiah 33:8 The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.
Isaiah 33:9 The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
Isaiah 34:11 The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb…
Isaiah 34:14 The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose.
Isaiah 35:1 The wilderness and the land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
Isaiah 35:6 Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
Isaiah 40:3 A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
Isaiah 41:18 I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.
Isaiah 41:19 I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,
Isaiah 42:11 Let the desert and its cities raise their voices; let the villages of Kedar cry aloud. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them cry out from the mountaintops.
Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
Isaiah 43:20 …because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen…
Isaiah 48:21 They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow for them from the rock; He split the rock, and water gushed out.
Isaiah 50:2 …ehold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of…
Isaiah 51:3 …ll her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious…
Isaiah 54:6 For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.
Jeremiah 2:6 …Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one…
Jeremiah 3:2 …e the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and…
Jeremiah 4:11 …o Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to…
Jeremiah 4:26 I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger.
Jeremiah 5:6 …lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be…
Jeremiah 9:12 …y explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through…
Jeremiah 9:26 …t, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of…
Jeremiah 13:24 “I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
Jeremiah 14:5 Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
Jeremiah 17:6 He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
Jeremiah 17:11 …fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the…
Jeremiah 22:6 …ke the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are…
Jeremiah 25:24 all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert;
Jeremiah 26:9 … will become like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted!” And all the people assembled against Jeremiah in the house of the…
Jeremiah 33:10 …he cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard…
Jeremiah 37:13 …elemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the…
Jeremiah 37:14 “That is a lie,” Jeremiah replied. “I am not deserting to the Chaldeans!” But Irijah would not listen to him; instead, he arrested Jeremiah and took him to the officials.
Jeremiah 38:19 But King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have deserted to the Chaldeans, for the Chaldeans may deliver me into their hands to abuse me.”
Jeremiah 38:22 …ed friends of yours. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted…
Jeremiah 48:6 ‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’
Jeremiah 50:12 your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Jeremiah 50:39 So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.
Lamentations 1:4 …use no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with…
Ezekiel 23:42 …und of a carefree crowd. Drunkards were brought in from the desert along with men from the rabble, who put bracelets on your wrists and beautiful crowns on your…
Ezekiel 26:19 … Lord GOD says: ‘When I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover…
Ezekiel 29:5 I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and will not be taken away or gathered for burial. I have given you…
Hosea 2:3 …xpose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of…
Hosea 13:15 …ast wind will come— a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every…
Joel 2:3 …m is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland— surely nothing will escape…
Joel 3:19 Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
Amos 7:9 The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword.”
Zephaniah 2:13 And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.
Zephaniah 2:14 …ll lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but…
Zephaniah 3:6 …heir corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no…
Zechariah 11:17 Woe to the worthless shepherd,who deserts the flock!May a sword strike his armand his right eye!May his arm be completely witheredand his right eye utterly blinded!”
Malachi 1:3 but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
Matthew 26:56 But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.
Mark 14:50 Then everyone deserted Him and fled.
John 12:11 for on account of him many of the Jews were deserting them and believing in Jesus.
Acts 1:20 “For it is written in the book of Psalms: ‘May his place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in it,’ and, ‘May another take his position.’
Acts 7:30 After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
Acts 8:26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go south to the desert road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.”
Acts 15:38 But Paul thought it best not to take him, because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.
Galatians 1:6 I am amazed how quickly you are deserting the One who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—
2 Timothy 1:15 You know that everyone in the Province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
2 Timothy 4:10 because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
2 Timothy 4:16 At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.
Hebrews 11:38 The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.