Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Bamidbar ( ) is a Hebrew word, which is the fifth word of the Book of Numbers, the fourth book of the Torah (the first five books of the Tanach, or Hebrew Bible). It means "In the wilderness", ba midbar. When used as a noun, Bamidbar might refer to: The Hebrew title of the biblical Book of ,, Hebrew for "in the desert," the fifth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parshah) is the 34th weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the first in the book of Numbers. It constitutes Numbers 1:1 4:20. Jews in the Diaspora generally read it in May or early June.