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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. Ecclesiastes 3:7לְדַבֵּֽר׃ · to speak
    …a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
  2. Ecclesiastes 7:21יְדַבֵּ֔רוּ · is spoken
    Do not pay attention to every word that is spoken, or you may hear your servant cursing you.
  3. Song of Solomon 5:6בְדַבְּר֔וֹ · at his departure
    I opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer.
  4. Song of Solomon 8:8שֶׁיְּדֻבַּר־ · she is spoken for
    We have a little sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister on the day she is spoken for?
  5. Isaiah 1:2דִּבֵּ֑ר · has spoken
    Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.
  6. Isaiah 1:20דִּבֵּֽר׃ס · has spoken
    But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
  7. Isaiah 7:10דַּבֵּ֥ר · spoke
    Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz, saying,
  8. Isaiah 8:5דַּבֵּ֥ר · spoke
    And the LORD spoke to me further:
  9. Isaiah 8:10דַּבְּר֤וּ · state
    Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”
  10. Isaiah 9:17דֹּבֵ֣ר · speaks
    Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
  11. Isaiah 16:13דִּבֶּ֧ר · spoke
    This is the message that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.
  12. Isaiah 16:14דִּבֶּ֣ר · says
    And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”
  13. Isaiah 19:18מְדַבְּרוֹת֙ · will speak
    In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of Hosts. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.
  14. Isaiah 20:2דִּבֶּ֣ר · had already spoken
    …the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandals from your feet.” And Isaiah did so, walking around naked and barefoot.
  15. Isaiah 21:17דִּבֵּֽר׃ס · has spoken
    The remaining archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.” For the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.
  16. Isaiah 22:25דִּבֵּֽר׃ס · has spoken
    In that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
  17. Isaiah 24:3דִּבֶּ֖ר · has spoken
    The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.
  18. Isaiah 25:8דִּבֵּֽר׃פ · has spoken
    He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
  19. Isaiah 28:11יְדַבֵּ֖ר · He will speak
    Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people
  20. Isaiah 29:4תְּדַבֵּ֔רִי · you will speak
    You will be brought low, you will speak from the ground, and out of the dust your words will be muffled. Your voice will be like a spirit from the ground; your speech will whisper out of the dust.
  21. Isaiah 30:10דַּבְּרוּ־ · Speak
    They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.
  22. Isaiah 32:4לְדַבֵּ֥ר · will speak
    The mind of the rash will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will speak clearly and fluently.
  23. Isaiah 32:6יְדַבֵּ֔ר · speaks; וּלְדַבֵּ֤ר · and speaks
    For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.
  24. Isaiah 32:7וּבְדַבֵּ֥ר · even when the plea
    The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.
  25. Isaiah 33:15וְדֹבֵ֖ר · and speaks
    He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—
  26. Isaiah 36:11דַּבֶּר־ · speak; תְּדַבֵּ֤ר · speak
    Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
  27. Isaiah 36:12לְדַבֵּ֖ר · to speak
    But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
  28. Isaiah 37:22דִּבֶּ֥ר · has spoken
    …this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.
  29. Isaiah 38:7דִּבֵּֽר׃ · He has promised
    This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised:
  30. Isaiah 38:15אֲדַבֵּ֥ר · can I say
    What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
  31. Isaiah 39:8דִּבַּ֑רְתָּ · you have spoken
    But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “At least there will be peace and security in my lifetime.”
  32. Isaiah 40:2דַּבְּר֞וּ · Speak
    “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”
  33. Isaiah 40:5דִּבֵּֽר׃ס · has spoken
    And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all humanity together will see it.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
  34. Isaiah 40:27וּתְדַבֵּ֖ר · and why do you assert
    Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”?
  35. Isaiah 41:1יְדַבֵּ֔רוּ · testify
    “Be silent before Me, O islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come forward and testify; let us together draw near for judgment.
  36. Isaiah 45:19דִּבַּ֗רְתִּי · spoken; דֹּבֵ֣ר · speak
    I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.
  37. Isaiah 46:11דִּבַּ֙רְתִּי֙ · I have spoken
    I summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far-off land. Truly I have spoken, and truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, and I will surely do it.
  38. Isaiah 48:15דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי · have spoken
    I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him. I have brought him, and he will succeed in his mission.
  39. Isaiah 48:16דִּבַּ֔רְתִּי · spoken
    Come near to Me and listen to this: From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time it happened, I was there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me, accompanied by His Spirit.
  40. Isaiah 52:6הַֽמְדַבֵּ֖ר · who speaks
    Therefore My people will know My name; therefore they will know on that day that I am He who speaks. Here I am!”
  41. Isaiah 58:9וְדַבֶּר־ · talk
    Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry out, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and malicious talk,
  42. Isaiah 58:13וְדַבֵּ֥ר · or speaking
    If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle words,
  43. Isaiah 58:14דִּבֵּֽר׃ס · has spoken
    …then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
  44. Isaiah 59:3דִּבְּרוּ־ · have spoken
    For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
  45. Isaiah 59:4וְדַבֶּר־ · they tell
    No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
  46. Isaiah 59:13דַּבֶּר־ · speaking
    …rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
  47. Isaiah 63:1מְדַבֵּ֥ר · proclaiming
    Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”