Find definitions for: wil•der•ness. Spoilers are come upon all the hillsides in the wilderness (The fire hath devoured the folds of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field, the water brooks are dried up, the fire hath devoured the folds of the wilderness (He made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof (The prophecy of the wilderness of the sea. ).These Foreign Words And Phrases Are Now Used In EnglishDoes English Have More Words Than Any Other Language?Are You Learning English? [6] The journeyings and wanderings of the people of Israel in the wilderness represented nothing but the vastation and desolation of believers before reformation; consequently their temptation, if indeed they are in vastation and desolation when they are in spiritual temptations; as may also be seen from the following passages in Jehovah bare them in the wilderness as a man beareth his son, in the way, even unto this place (Thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to afflict thee, to tempt thee, and to know what is in thy heart; whether thou wouldest keep His commandments or no. Topics Definition of Hebrew Words Wilderness By Jeff A. Benner. a tract of land officially designated as such and protected by the U.S. government. in the wilderness After three years in the wilderness she was given a government post. His wilderness years (= when he was out of politics and the public eye) in the 1990s were spent in Canada. . In The folds of the wilderness do drop, and the hills are girded with rejoicing; the pastures are clothed with flocks, the valleys also are covered over with corn (I will make the wilderness a pool of waters, and the dry land springs of waters. Pronunciation: (wil'dur-nis), — n. a wild and uncultivated region, as of forest or desert, uninhabited or inhabited only by wild animals; a tract of wasteland. In the same:-- As whirlwinds in the south, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land ([9] From all this it may be seen what is signified by the following concerning John the Baptist:--It was said by Isaiah, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way for the Lord, make His paths straight (which means that the church was then altogether vastated, so that there was no longer any good, nor any truth; which is plainly manifest from the fact, that then no one knew that man had any internal, nor that there was any internal in the Word, and thus that no one knew that the Messiah or Christ was to come to eternally save them. In Jehovah's portion is His people, Jacob is the line of His inheritance; He found him in a desert land, and in a waste howling wilderness; He led him about, He made him understand, He kept him as the pupil of His eye (They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way, they found no city of habitation (where those who have been in desolation of truth and are being reformed are treated of. Sing unto Jehovah a new song and His praise from the end of the earth; ye that go down to the sea, and the fullness thereof, the Isles and the inhabitants thereof; let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains (I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil wild beast to cease out of the land, and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods and I will make them and the places round about My hill a blessing the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield her fruit (I will bring her into the wilderness, and will speak to her heart; and I will give her her vineyards from thence (where the desolation of truth, and consolation afterwards, are treated of.