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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. Isaiah 65:12דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי · I spoke
    I will destine you for the sword, and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen; you did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
  2. Isaiah 65:24מְדַבְּרִ֖ים · speaking
    Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
  3. Isaiah 66:4דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי · I spoke
    So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
  4. Jeremiah 1:6דַּבֵּ֑ר · how to speak
    “Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”
  5. Jeremiah 1:7תְּדַבֵּֽר׃ · you must speak
    But the LORD told me: “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak.
  6. Jeremiah 1:16וְדִבַּרְתִּ֤י · I will pronounce
    I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me, and they have burned incense to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
  7. Jeremiah 1:17וְדִבַּרְתָּ֣ · and tell
    Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terrify you before them.
  8. Jeremiah 3:5דִבַּרְתִּי · you have spoken
    Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”
  9. Jeremiah 4:12אֲדַבֵּ֥ר · pronounce
    …a wind too strong for that comes from Me. Now I also pronounce judgments against them.”
  10. Jeremiah 4:28דִבַּ֙רְתִּי֙ · I have spoken
    Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”
  11. Jeremiah 5:5וַאֲדַבְּרָ֣ה · and speak
    I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.
  12. Jeremiah 5:14דַּבֶּרְכֶ֔ם · you have spoken
    Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.
  13. Jeremiah 5:15יְדַבֵּֽר׃
    Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.
  14. Jeremiah 6:10אֲדַבְּרָ֤ה · can I give
    To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
  15. Jeremiah 7:13וָאֲדַבֵּ֨ר · and because I have spoken; וְדַבֵּר֙
    And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,
  16. Jeremiah 7:22דִבַּ֤רְתִּי
    For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,
  17. Jeremiah 7:27וְדִבַּרְתָּ֤ · When you tell
    When you tell them all these things, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer.
  18. Jeremiah 8:6יְדַבֵּ֔רוּ · speak
    I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.
  19. Jeremiah 9:5יְדַבֵּ֑רוּ · one tells; דַּבֶּר־ · to lie
    Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.
  20. Jeremiah 9:8דִבֵּ֑ר · they speak; יְדַבֵּ֔ר · a man speaks
    Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.
  21. Jeremiah 9:12דִּבֶּ֧ר · spoken
    Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?
  22. Jeremiah 9:22דַּבֵּ֗ר · Declare that
    Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”
  23. Jeremiah 10:1דִּבֶּ֧ר · speaks
    Hear the word that the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.
  24. Jeremiah 10:5יְדַבֵּ֔רוּ · speak
    Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and neither can they do any good.”
  25. Jeremiah 11:2וְדִבַּרְתָּם֙ · and tell them
    “Listen to the words of this covenant and tell them to the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.
  26. Jeremiah 11:17דִּבֶּ֥ר · has decreed
    The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have brought upon themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”
  27. Jeremiah 12:1אֲדַבֵּ֣ר · I wish to contend
    Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
  28. Jeremiah 12:6יְדַבְּר֥וּ · they speak
    Even your brothers—your own father’s household—even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.
  29. Jeremiah 13:15דִּבֵּֽר׃ · has spoken
    Listen and give heed. Do not be arrogant, for the LORD has spoken.
  30. Jeremiah 14:14דִבַּ֖רְתִּי · speak
    “The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of their own minds.
  31. Jeremiah 16:10דִבֶּ֨ר · pronounced
    When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’
  32. Jeremiah 18:7אֲדַבֵּ֔ר · I might announce
    At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.
  33. Jeremiah 18:8דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי · I warned
    But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.
  34. Jeremiah 18:9אֲדַבֵּ֔ר · I announce
    And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,
  35. Jeremiah 18:20לְדַבֵּ֤ר · to speak
    Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.
  36. Jeremiah 19:2אֲדַבֵּ֥ר · I speak
    …and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,
  37. Jeremiah 19:5דִבַּ֔רְתִּי · or mentioned
    They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.
  38. Jeremiah 19:15דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי · I have pronounced
    “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”
  39. Jeremiah 20:8אֲדַבֵּר֙ · I speak
    For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.
  40. Jeremiah 20:9אֲדַבֵּ֥ר · or speak
    If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
  41. Jeremiah 22:1וְדִבַּרְתָּ֣ · and proclaim
    This is what the LORD says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there,
  42. Jeremiah 22:21דִּבַּ֤רְתִּי · I warned
    I warned you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.
  43. Jeremiah 23:16יְדַבֵּ֔רוּ · They speak
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.
  44. Jeremiah 23:17דִּבֶּ֣ר · says that
    They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’
  45. Jeremiah 23:21דִבַּ֥רְתִּי · speak
    I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied.
  46. Jeremiah 23:28יְדַבֵּ֥ר · speak
    Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?” declares the LORD.
  47. Jeremiah 23:35דִּבֶּ֖ר · spoken
    This is what each man is to say to his friend and to his brother: ‘What has the LORD answered?’ or ‘What has the LORD spoken?’