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דָבַר

da.varto speak: speakHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb1,142 occurrences36 books1,049 verses

Definition

a primitive root; perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
Traditional renderings: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, × well, × work.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders דָבַר:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,142 total
  1. Judges 5:12דַּבְּרִי־ · sing
    ‘Awake, awake, O Deborah! Awake, awake, sing a song! Arise, O Barak, and take hold of your captives, O son of Abinoam!’
  2. Judges 6:17מְדַבֵּ֥ר · speaking
    Gideon answered, “If I have found favor in Your sight, give me a sign that it is You speaking with me.
  3. Judges 6:27דִּבֶּ֥ר · had told him
    So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city, he did it by night rather than in the daytime.
  4. Judges 6:36דִּבַּֽרְתָּ׃ · You have said
    Then Gideon said to God, “If You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said,
  5. Judges 6:37דִּבַּֽרְתָּ׃ · You have said
    …then behold, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said.”
  6. Judges 6:39וַאֲדַבְּרָ֖ה · let me speak
    Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time let it be dry, and the ground covered with dew.”
  7. Judges 7:11יְדַבֵּ֔רוּ · they are saying
    …and listen to what they are saying. Then your hands will be strengthened to attack the camp.” So he went with Purah his servant to the outposts where armed men were guarding the camp.
  8. Judges 8:3בְּדַבְּר֖וֹ · When he had said
    God has delivered Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian, into your hand. What was I able to do compared to you?” When he had said this, their anger against him subsided.
  9. Judges 8:8וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · and asked
    From there he went up to Penuel and asked the same from them, but the men of Penuel gave the same response as the men of Succoth.
  10. Judges 9:1וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר · and said
    Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,
  11. Judges 9:2דַּבְּרוּ־ · ask
    “Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and blood.”
  12. Judges 9:3וַיְדַבְּר֨וּ · spoke
    And when his mother’s brothers spoke all these words about him in the presence of all the leaders of Shechem, their hearts were inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, “He is our brother.”
  13. Judges 9:37לְדַבֵּר֒ · spoke up
    Then Gaal spoke up again, “Look, people are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming by way of the Diviners’ Oak.”
  14. Judges 11:11וַיְדַבֵּ֨ר · repeated
    So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him their leader and commander. And Jephthah repeated all his terms in the presence of the LORD at Mizpah.
  15. Judges 12:6לְדַבֵּ֣ר · pronounce
    …they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. So at that time 42,000 Ephraimites were killed.
  16. Judges 13:11דִּבַּ֥רְתָּ · spoke
    So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he asked, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” “I am,” he said.
  17. Judges 14:7וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר · and spoke
    Then Samson continued on his way down and spoke to the woman, because she was pleasing to his eyes.
  18. Judges 15:17לְדַבֵּ֔ר · speaking
    And when Samson had finished speaking, he cast the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.
  19. Judges 16:10וַתְּדַבֵּ֥ר · and lied to me
    Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me! Now please tell me how you can be tied up.”
  20. Judges 16:13וַתְּדַבֵּ֤ר · and lied to me
    Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me all along! Tell me how you can be tied up.” He told her, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the web of a loom and tighten it with a pin, I will become as weak as any other man.”
  21. Judges 19:3לְדַבֵּ֤ר · to speak
    …her husband got up and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back, taking his servant and a pair of donkeys. So the girl brought him into her father’s house, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.
  22. Judges 19:30וְדַבֵּֽרוּ׃פ · and speak up
    And everyone who saw it said, “Nothing like this has been seen or done from the day the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt until this day. Think it over, take counsel, and speak up!”
  23. Judges 20:3דַּבְּר֕וּ · Tell
    (Meanwhile the Benjamites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) And the Israelites asked, “Tell us, how did this wicked thing happen?”
  24. Judges 21:13וַֽיְדַבְּרוּ֙ · a message
    Then the whole congregation sent a message of peace to the Benjamites who were at the rock of Rimmon.
  25. Ruth 1:18לְדַבֵּ֥ר · trying to persuade her
    When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.
  26. Ruth 2:13דִבַּ֖רְתָּ · and spoken
    “My lord,” she said, “may I continue to find favor in your eyes, for you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.”
  27. Ruth 4:1דִּבֶּר־ · had spoken
    Meanwhile, Boaz went to the gate and sat down there. Soon the kinsman-redeemer of whom he had spoken came along, and Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.
  28. 1 Samuel 1:13מְדַבֶּ֣רֶת · was praying
    Hannah was praying in her heart, and though her lips were moving, her voice could not be heard. So Eli thought she was drunk
  29. 1 Samuel 1:16דִּבַּ֥רְתִּי · I have been praying
    Do not take your servant for a wicked woman, for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.”
  30. 1 Samuel 2:3תְדַבְּרוּ֙
    Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.
  31. 1 Samuel 3:9דַּבֵּ֣ר · Speak
    “Go and lie down,” he said to Samuel, “and if He calls you, say, ‘Speak, LORD, for Your servant is listening.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
  32. 1 Samuel 3:10דַּבֵּ֔ר · Speak
    Then the LORD came and stood there, calling as before, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel answered, “Speak, for Your servant is listening.”
  33. 1 Samuel 3:12דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי · I have spoken
    On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his house, from beginning to end.
  34. 1 Samuel 3:17דִּבֶּ֣ר · He gave you; דִּבֶּ֥ר · He said
    “What was the message He gave you?” Eli asked. “Do not hide it from me. May God punish you, and ever so severely, if you hide from me anything He said to you.”
  35. 1 Samuel 4:20וַתְּדַבֵּ֙רְנָה֙ · said
    As she was dying, the women attending to her said, “Do not be afraid, for you have given birth to a son!” But she did not respond or pay any heed.
  36. 1 Samuel 8:21וַֽיְדַבְּרֵ֖ם · and repeated them
    Samuel listened to all the words of the people and repeated them in the hearing of the LORD.
  37. 1 Samuel 9:6יְדַבֵּ֖ר · he says
    “Look,” said the servant, “in this city there is a man of God who is highly respected; everything he says surely comes to pass. Let us go there now. Perhaps he will tell us which way to go.”
  38. 1 Samuel 9:21דִּבַּ֣רְתָּ · would you say
    Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjamite from the smallest tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the least of all the clans of Benjamin? So why would you say such a thing to me?”
  39. 1 Samuel 9:25וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · Samuel spoke
    And after they had come down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof of his house.
  40. 1 Samuel 10:25וַיְדַבֵּ֨ר · explained
    Then Samuel explained to the people the rights of kingship. He wrote them on a scroll and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, each to his own home.
  41. 1 Samuel 11:4וַיְדַבְּר֥וּ · and relayed
    When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and relayed these words in the hearing of the people, they all wept aloud.
  42. 1 Samuel 14:19דִּבֶּ֤ר · was talking
    While Saul was talking to the priest, the commotion in the Philistine camp continued to increase. So Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand.”
  43. 1 Samuel 15:16דִּבֶּ֧ר · said; דַּבֵּֽר׃ס · Tell me
    “Stop!” exclaimed Samuel. “Let me tell you what the LORD said to me last night.” “Tell me,” Saul replied.
  44. 1 Samuel 16:4דִּבֶּ֣ר · had said
    So Samuel did what the LORD had said and went to Bethlehem. When the elders of the town met him, they trembled and asked, “Do you come in peace?”
  45. 1 Samuel 17:23מְדַבֵּ֣ר · was speaking; וַיְדַבֵּ֖ר · and shouted
    And as he was speaking with them, suddenly the champion named Goliath, the Philistine from Gath, came forward from the ranks of the Philistines and shouted his usual words, which David also heard.
  46. 1 Samuel 17:28בְּדַבְּר֖וֹ · speaking
    Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”
  47. 1 Samuel 17:31דִּבֶּ֣ר · words
    Now David’s words were overheard and reported to Saul, who sent for him.