מִדְבָּר, v. דְּבַר) pasture-ground, desert. Gen. R. s. 31, end. Cant. R. to IV, 4 (play on מדברך ib. 3) אע"פ שהוא מ׳וכ׳ although the Temple is a desert, you are bound to observe the sacredness of its precincts now that it is ruined &c.; a. fr.—מֵתֵי מ׳ the generation that died in the wilderness. B. Bath. 73ᵇ bot.; a. fr.—Tosef. Macc. III (II), 2; Macc. 9ᵇ; Y. ib. II, 31ᵈ top בצר במ׳ (b. h.) Bezer in the Wilderness, on the eastern side of the Jordan.—Tosef. Men. IX, 13 כבשים ממ׳, read: ממִדְבַּר חברון from the pasture-ground of Hebron; v. Men. 87ᵃ; Sot. 34ᵇ.—Pl. מִדְבָּרוֹת. Ber. IX, 2. Ib. 54ᵇ הולכי מ׳ those travelling in the deserts; a. e.