The waste, probably some high waste land to the south of the Dead Sea ( Numbers 21:20 ; 23:28 ; 1 Samuel 23:19,24 ); or rather not a proper name at all, but simply "the waste" or "wilderness," the district on which the plateau of Ziph (q.v.) looks down.
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source-manifest/easton— Easton's Bible Dictionary (PD)