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Looking at the formation of 'midbar' מדבר:

Looking at the formation of 'midbar' מדבר using Rabbi Eliezer's rule 30 Rules of Rabbi Eliezer

Looking at the formation of 'midbar' מדבר:

Yes. You have hit upon the metaphoric meaning of מגבר as both 'speaking' and 'wilderness'. The wilderness is a secondary metaphor. Like 'Waterloo', place is used for a metaphor of an activity that takes place there.

An interesting study would be to find any outliers: are there accounts of someone going to the 'wilderness' and not speaking to God in the literal or sensus plenior?

Looking at the formation of 'midbar' מדבר:

1. See SMS's answer here: https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/69442/whats-the-origin-of-this-approach-of-trying-to-obtain-meaning-from-the-individu

2. Sefir Yetzirah

3. Any book on Kabbalah, which I do not endorse. What's is observable is that belief that the letters have meaning.

4. Current works by https://www.linkedin.com/in/rabbircklein/ who is attempting to coerce the meanings from the letters.

5. This is the one which I am currently testing. https://sensusplenior.net/wiki/Pneumnemonic_Hebrew_for_Beginners using the rules posted here: What are the strict set of rules followed by sensus plenior?

6. I am currently collaborating on a Dictionary of 'Gates'; two-letter sub-roots.

7. John demonstrates a knowledge of this in 1Jo 5:7 Where heaven שמים has three consonants (yes and one vowel) which mean father מ, Word ם and Spirit א. And earth ארץ having Spirit א, water ר, and blood ץ. Naturally he translated into Greek for the emerging Greek church which did not have a background in Hebrew.

1. See SMS's answer here: https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/69442/whats-the-origin-of-this-approach-of-trying-to-obtain-meaning-from-the-individu

2. Sefir Yetzirah "some early commentators treated it as a treatise on mathematical and linguistic theory as opposed to Kabbalah." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefer_Yetzirah

3. Any book on Kabbalah, which I do not endorse. What's is observable is that belief that the letters have meaning.

4. Current works by https://www.linkedin.com/in/rabbircklein/ who is attempting to coerce the meanings from the letters.

5. This is the one which I am currently testing. https://sensusplenior.net/wiki/Pneumnemonic_Hebrew_for_Beginners using the rules posted here: What are the strict set of rules followed by sensus plenior?

6. I am currently collaborating on a Dictionary of 'Gates'; two-letter sub-roots.

7. John demonstrates a knowledge of this in 1Jo 5:7 Where heaven שמים has three consonants (yes and one vowel) which mean father מ, Word ם and Spirit א. And earth ארץ having Spirit א, water ר, and blood ץ. Naturally he translated into Greek for the emerging Greek church which did not have a background in Hebrew.

8. Works and lectures by Rabbi Benjamin Blech https://www.rabbibenjaminblech.com/