He found
matsa' (maw-tsaw')
to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
him in a desert
midbar (mid-bawr')
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs) -- desert, south, speech, wilderness.
land
'erets (eh'-rets)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land) -- common, country, earth, field, ground, land, natins, way, + wilderness, world.
and in the waste
tohuw (to'-hoo)
a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain -- confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
howling
ylel (yel-ale')
a howl; --howling.
wilderness
yshiymown (yesh-ee-mone')
a desolation -- desert, Jeshimon, solitary, wilderness.
he led him about
cabab (saw-bab')
to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively (as follows)
he instructed
biyn (bene)
to separate mentally (or distinguish), i.e.(generally) understand
him he kept
natsar (naw-tsar')
to guard, in a good sense (to protect, maintain, obey, etc.) or a bad one (to conceal, etc.)
him as the apple
'iyshown (ee-shone')
the little man of the eye; the pupil or ball; hence, the middle (of night) -- apple (of the eye), black, obscure.
of his eye
`ayin (ah'-yin)
an eye; by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
