Lexical Definition

‎יְשִׁימוֹן‎ yᵉshîymôwn (yesh-ee-mone') Jeshimon ^H:N-M
from ‎יָשַׁם‎

desert, Jeshimon, solitary, wilderness.

• a desolation

1) waste, wilderness, desert, desolate place

See Greek: ἄνυδρος · διψάω · ἔρημος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎יְשִׁימוֺן‎ noun masculine waste, wilderness; — absolute ‎יְשִׁימוֺן‎ 1Sam 23:19 + 5 t.; ‎יְשִׁימֹן‎ Num 21:20 + 3 t.; ‎יְשִׁמוֺן‎ Isa 43:19 ‎יְשִׁמֹן‎ Deut 32:10 construct ‎יְשִׁימוֺן‎ Ps 107:4 — waste, wilderness:
a. with article, almost proper name Num 21:20 (commanded by Pisgah), Num 23:28 (by Pe`or; both J E), frequented by David as an outlaw 1Sam 23:19; 1Sam 23:24; 1Sam 26:1; 1Sam 26:3. Probably some part of the wilderness of Judah, bordering on Dead Sea (Conder<sup>Tent work, ch. 15</sup>; Buhl<sup>Geogr. § 61</sup>); according to others, at least in Numbers (see Di), part of the `Arábah, northeast of the Dead Sea (in which was ‎בֵּית הַיְשִׁימֹת‎ Num 33:49 and elsewhere) b. without article, a waste or wilderness (only in poetry), of scene of Israel's wanderings (after the Exodus), ‎׳‎‎בְּתֹהוּ יְלֵל יְשׁ‎ Deut 32:10 (|| ‎בְּאֶרֶץ מִדְבָּר‎), Ps 68:8*; Ps 78:40; Ps 106:14 with reference to returning exiles Isa 43:19; Isa 43:20 ‎דֶּרֶךְ‎ ‎׳‎‎י‎ Ps 107:4 waste of a way ( = desert way).

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