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.
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
Occurrences
1,142 total
- Numbers 8:1וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · saidThen the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 8:2דַּבֵּר֙ · Speak“Speak to Aaron and tell him: ‘When you set up the seven lamps, they are to light the area in front of the lampstand.’”
- Numbers 8:5וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · spokeAgain the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 8:23וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · saidAnd the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 9:1וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר · spokeIn the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:
- Numbers 9:4וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · toldSo Moses told the Israelites to observe the Passover,
- Numbers 9:9וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · saidThen the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 9:10דַּבֵּ֛ר · Tell“Tell the Israelites: ‘When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.
- Numbers 10:1וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · saidThen the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 10:29דִּבֶּר־ · has promisedThen Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”
- Numbers 11:17וְדִבַּרְתִּ֣י · and speakAnd I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.
- Numbers 11:24וַיְדַבֵּר֙ · and relayedSo Moses went out and relayed to the people the words of the LORD, and he gathered seventy of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.
- Numbers 11:25וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר · and spokeThen the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and He took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and placed that Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but they never did so again.
- Numbers 12:1וַתְּדַבֵּ֨ר · criticizedThen Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had taken a Cushite wife.
- Numbers 12:2דִּבֶּ֣ר · speak; דִבֵּ֑ר · speak“Does the LORD speak only through Moses?” they said. “Does He not also speak through us?” And the LORD heard this.
- Numbers 12:6אֲדַבֶּר־ · I will speakHe said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.
- Numbers 12:8אֲדַבֶּר־ · I speak; לְדַבֵּ֖ר · to speakI speak with him face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you unafraid to speak against My servant Moses?”
- Numbers 13:1וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · saidAnd the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 14:17דִּבַּ֖רְתָּ · You have declaredSo now I pray, may the power of my Lord be magnified, just as You have declared:
- Numbers 14:26וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר · saidThen the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
- Numbers 14:28דִּבַּרְתֶּ֖ם · you saySo tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.
- Numbers 14:35דִּבַּרְתִּי֒ · have spokenI, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”
- Numbers 14:39וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר · relayedAnd when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly.
- Numbers 15:1וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · saidThen the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 15:2דַּבֵּר֙ · Speak“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: After you enter the land that I am giving you as a home
- Numbers 15:17וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · saidThen the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 15:18דַּבֵּר֙ · Speak“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land to which I am bringing you
- Numbers 15:22דִּבֶּ֥ר · has spokenNow if you stray unintentionally and do not obey all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses—
- Numbers 15:38דַּבֵּ֞ר · Speak“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout the generations to come they are to make for themselves tassels for the corners of their garments, with a blue cord on each tassel.
- Numbers 16:5וַיְדַבֵּ֨ר · Then he saidThen he said to Korah and all his followers, “Tomorrow morning the LORD will reveal who belongs to Him and who is holy, and He will bring that person near to Himself. The one He chooses He will bring near to Himself.
- Numbers 16:20וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר · saidAnd the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
- Numbers 16:23וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · saidThen the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 16:24דַּבֵּ֥ר · Tell“Tell the congregation to move away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.”
- Numbers 16:26וַיְדַבֵּ֨ר · And he warnedAnd he warned the congregation, “Move away now from the tents of these wicked men. Do not touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”
- Numbers 16:31לְדַבֵּ֕ר · sayingAs soon as Moses had finished saying all this, the ground beneath them split open,
- Numbers 16:36וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · saidThen the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 16:40דִּבֶּ֧ר · commanded him…just as the LORD commanded him through Moses. This was to be a reminder to the Israelites that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and his followers.
- Numbers 16:44וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · said…and the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 16:47דִּבֶּ֣ר · had orderedSo Aaron took the censer as Moses had ordered and ran into the midst of the assembly. And seeing that the plague had begun among the people, he offered the incense and made atonement for the people.
- Numbers 17:1וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · said toAnd the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 17:2דַּבֵּ֣ר׀ · Speak“Speak to the Israelites and take from them twelve staffs, one from the leader of each tribe. Write each man’s name on his staff,
- Numbers 17:6וַיְדַבֵּ֨ר · spokeSo Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a staff—one for each of the leaders of their tribes, twelve staffs in all. And Aaron’s staff was among them.
- Numbers 18:8וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר · saidThen the LORD said to Aaron, “Behold, I have put you in charge of My offerings. As for all the sacred offerings of the Israelites, I have given them to you and your sons as a portion and a permanent statute.
- Numbers 18:25וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · instructedAnd the LORD instructed Moses,
- Numbers 18:26תְּדַבֵּר֮ · Speak“Speak to the Levites and tell them: ‘When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you as your inheritance, you must present part of it as an offering to the LORD—a tithe of the tithe.
- Numbers 19:1וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר · saidThen the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
- Numbers 19:2דַּבֵּ֣ר׀ · Instruct“This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red heifer that has no defect and has never been placed under a yoke.
- Numbers 20:7וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · saidAnd the LORD said to Moses,