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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. Ezekiel 21:17דִּבַּֽרְתִּי׃פ · have spoken
    I too will strike My hands together, and I will satisfy My wrath.’ I, the LORD, have spoken.”
  2. Ezekiel 21:32דִּבַּֽרְתִּי׃פ · have spoken
    You will be fuel for the fire. Your blood will stain your own land. You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.’”
  3. Ezekiel 22:14דִּבַּ֥רְתִּי · have spoken
    Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will act.
  4. Ezekiel 22:28דִבֵּֽר׃ · spoken
    Her prophets whitewash these deeds by false visions and lying divinations, saying, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken.
  5. Ezekiel 23:34דִבַּ֔רְתִּי · have spoken
    You will drink it and drain it; you will dash it to pieces, and tear your breasts. For I have spoken,’ declares the Lord GOD.
  6. Ezekiel 24:14דִּבַּ֙רְתִּי֙ · have spoken
    I, the LORD, have spoken; the time is coming, and I will act. I will not refrain or show pity, nor will I relent. I will judge you according to your ways and deeds,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
  7. Ezekiel 24:18וָאֲדַבֵּ֤ר · So I spoke
    So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And the next morning I did as I had been commanded.
  8. Ezekiel 24:27וּתְדַבֵּ֕ר · you will speak
    On that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped; you will speak and no longer be mute. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the LORD.”
  9. Ezekiel 26:5דִבַּ֔רְתִּי · have spoken
    She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations,
  10. Ezekiel 26:14דִּבַּ֔רְתִּי · have spoken
    I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread the fishing nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the LORD, have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.’
  11. Ezekiel 28:10דִבַּ֔רְתִּי · have spoken
    You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. For I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.”
  12. Ezekiel 29:3דַּבֵּ֨ר · Speak
    Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’
  13. Ezekiel 30:12דִּבַּֽרְתִּי׃ס · have spoken
    I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.
  14. Ezekiel 32:21יְדַבְּרוּ־ · will speak
    Mighty chiefs will speak from the midst of Sheol about Egypt and her allies: ‘They have come down and lie with the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.’
  15. Ezekiel 33:2דַּבֵּ֤ר · speak
    “Son of man, speak to your people and tell them: ‘Suppose I bring the sword against a land, and the people of that land choose a man from among them, appointing him as their watchman,
  16. Ezekiel 33:8דִבַּ֔רְתָּ · speak out
    If I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood.
  17. Ezekiel 33:30הַנִּדְבָּרִ֤ים · are talking; וְדִבֶּר־ · speaks
    As for you, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses. One speaks to another, each saying to his brother, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD!’
  18. Ezekiel 34:24דִּבַּֽרְתִּי׃ · have spoken
    I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David will be a prince among them. I, the LORD, have spoken.
  19. Ezekiel 36:5דִבַּ֛רְתִּי · I have spoken
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in My burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, so that its pastureland became plunder.
  20. Ezekiel 36:6דִּבַּ֔רְתִּי · I have spoken
    Therefore, prophesy concerning the land of Israel and tell the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys, that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I have spoken in My burning zeal because you have endured the reproach of the nations.
  21. Ezekiel 36:36דִּבַּ֥רְתִּי · have spoken
    Then the nations around you that remain will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt what was destroyed, and I have replanted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it.
  22. Ezekiel 37:14דִּבַּ֥רְתִּי · have spoken
    I will put My Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it, declares the LORD.’”
  23. Ezekiel 37:19דַּבֵּ֣ר · you are to tell
    …you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will put them together with the stick of Judah. I will make them into a single stick, and they will become one in My hand.’
  24. Ezekiel 37:21וְדַבֵּ֣ר · you are to tell
    …you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the Israelites out of the nations to which they have gone, and I will gather them from all around and bring them into their own land.
  25. Ezekiel 38:17דִּבַּ֜רְתִּי · I have spoken
    This is what the Lord GOD says: Are you the one of whom I have spoken in former days through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those times prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?
  26. Ezekiel 38:19דִּבַּ֑רְתִּי · I proclaim
    In My zeal and fiery rage I proclaim that on that day there will be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.
  27. Ezekiel 39:5דִבַּ֔רְתִּי · have spoken
    You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.
  28. Ezekiel 39:8דִּבַּֽרְתִּי׃ · I have spoken
    Yes, it is coming, and it will surely happen, declares the Lord GOD. This is the day of which I have spoken.
  29. Ezekiel 40:4וַיְדַבֵּ֨ר · he said
    “Son of man,” he said to me, “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here. Report to the house of Israel everything you see.”
  30. Ezekiel 40:45וַיְדַבֵּ֖ר · Then the man said
    Then the man said to me: “The chamber that faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple,
  31. Ezekiel 41:22וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר · And the man told
    There was an altar of wood three cubits high and two cubits square. Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. And the man told me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”
  32. Ezekiel 43:6מִדַּבֵּ֥ר · someone speaking
    While the man was standing beside me, I heard someone speaking to me from inside the temple,
  33. Ezekiel 44:5מְדַבֵּ֣ר · tell
    The LORD said to me: “Son of man, pay attention; look carefully with your eyes and listen closely with your ears to everything I tell you concerning all the statutes and laws of the house of the LORD. Take careful note of the entrance to the temple, along with all the exits of the sanctuary.
  34. Daniel 1:19וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר · spoke with them
    And the king spoke with them, and among all the young men he found no one equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. So they entered the king’s service.
  35. Daniel 2:4וַֽיְדַבְּר֧וּ · answered
    Then the astrologers answered the king in Aramaic, “O king, may you live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”
  36. Daniel 8:13מְדַבֵּ֑ר · speaking; הַֽמְדַבֵּ֗ר · to [him]
    Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long until the fulfillment of the vision of the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, and the surrender of the sanctuary and of the host to be trampled?”
  37. Daniel 8:18וּבְדַבְּר֣וֹ · While he was speaking
    While he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Then he touched me, helped me to my feet,
  38. Daniel 9:6דִּבְּרוּ֙ · spoke
    We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, fathers, and all the people of the land.
  39. Daniel 9:12דִּבֶּ֣ר · spoken
    You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.
  40. Daniel 9:20מְדַבֵּר֙ · was speaking
    While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and that of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before the LORD my God concerning His holy mountain—
  41. Daniel 9:21מְדַבֵּ֖ר · was still praying
    …while I was still praying, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.
  42. Daniel 9:22וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר · and spoke
    He instructed me and spoke with me, saying: “O Daniel, I have come now to give you insight and understanding.
  43. Daniel 10:11דֹבֵ֤ר · about to say; וּבְדַבְּר֥וֹ · And when he had said
    He said to me, “Daniel, you are a man who is highly precious. Consider carefully the words that I am about to say to you. Stand up, for I have now been sent to you.” And when he had said this to me, I stood up trembling.
  44. Daniel 10:15וּבְדַבְּר֣וֹ · While he was speaking
    While he was speaking these words to me, I set my face toward the ground and became speechless.
  45. Daniel 10:16וָאֲדַבְּרָה֙
    And suddenly one with the likeness of a man touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and said to the one standing before me, “My lord, because of the vision, I am overcome with anguish, and I have no strength.
  46. Daniel 10:17לְדַבֵּ֖ר · speak
    How can I, your servant, speak with you, my lord? Now I have no strength, nor is any breath left in me.”
  47. Daniel 10:19וּֽבְדַבְּר֤וֹ · As he spoke
    “Do not be afraid, you who are highly precious,” he said. “Peace be with you! Be strong now; be very strong!” As he spoke with me, I was strengthened and said, “Speak, my lord, for you have strengthened me.”