讀【荒漠甘泉】每天認一英文單字→(03/22)Wilderness(曠野)

筆者：潘光祚(落伍者)

 讀【荒漠甘泉】每天認一英文單字→(03/22)Wilderness(曠野)

★0322 引用經文→使徒行傳7:30,31,34

30 過了四十年、在西乃山的曠野、有一位天使、從荊棘火焰中、向摩西顯現。
"After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.

31 摩西見了那異象、便覺希奇．正進前觀看的時候、有主的聲音說、
When he saw this, he was amazed at the sight. As he went over to look more closely, he heard the Lord's voice:

34 我的百姓在埃及所受的困苦、我實在看見了．他們悲歎的聲音、我也聽見了．我下來要救他們、你來、我要差你往埃及去。』
I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.'

★Wilderness(曠野)：解

n.（名詞 noun）
1. 【地】(無人居住、未開墾的)荒地,荒野,曠野
例：
the arctic wilderness 北極地區一片荒漠
a watery wilderness =a wilderness of waters [sea] 茫茫大海,無邊無際的水域.

2. 【地】保持自然狀態的地區,莽原
3. 【地】(花園等的)雜草叢生處
4. 亂七八糟的[雜亂無章的]一大堆;一片嘈雜;一片混亂
5. 【地】威爾德內斯（ Wilderness）（美國 Virginia 州東北部的森林地區,南北戰爭時期 Grant 的軍隊和 Lee 的軍隊曾於1864年5月在此激戰）
1. 【聖】在荒野（Num. 14: 33）
2. 孤立的,無人理睬的
3. (政黨等)不當政的,在野的
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經文→Viewing References Part 1 [1-10 in 293 refs]:

Ge 14:6
And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

Ge 16:7
And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

Ge 21:14
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

Ge 21:20
And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

Ge 21:21
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

Ge 36:24
And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.

Ge 37:22
And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.

Exo 3:18
And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the

LORD our God.
Exo 4:27
And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.

Exo 5:1
And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.