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 20:8וְדִבַּרְתֶּ֧ם · are to speak“Take the staff and assemble the congregation. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will pour out its water. You will bring out water from the rock and provide drink for the congregation and their livestock.”
- Numbers 21:5וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר · and spoke…and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”
- Numbers 21:7דִבַּ֤רְנוּ · speakingThen the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you. Intercede with the LORD so He will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses interceded for the people.
- Numbers 22:7וַיְדַבְּר֥וּ · and relayedThe elders of Moab and Midian departed with the fees for divination in hand. They came to Balaam and relayed to him the words of Balak.
- Numbers 22:8יְדַבֵּ֥ר · speaks“Spend the night here,” Balaam replied, “and I will give you the answer that the LORD speaks to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.
- Numbers 22:19דַּבֵּ֥ר · has to tell meSo now, please stay here overnight as the others did, that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me.”
- Numbers 22:20אֲדַבֵּ֥ר · I tell youThat night God came to Balaam and said, “Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you.”
- Numbers 22:35אֲדַבֵּ֥ר · but you are to speak; תְדַבֵּ֑ר · I tell youBut the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you are to speak only what I tell you.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
- Numbers 22:38דַּבֵּ֣ר · I say; אֲדַבֵּֽר׃ · I must speak“See, I have come to you,” Balaam replied, “but can I say just anything? I must speak only the word that God puts in my mouth.”
- Numbers 23:2דִּבֶּ֣ר · had instructedSo Balak did as Balaam had instructed, and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
- Numbers 23:5תְדַבֵּֽר׃ · give him this messageThen the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and give him this message.”
- Numbers 23:12לְדַבֵּֽר׃ · speakBut Balaam replied, “Should I not speak exactly what the LORD puts in my mouth?”
- Numbers 23:16תְדַבֵּֽר׃ · and speakAnd the LORD met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and speak what I tell you.”
- Numbers 23:17דִּבֶּ֖ר · saySo he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with the princes of Moab. “What did the LORD say?” Balak asked.
- Numbers 23:19וְדִבֶּ֖ר · Does He promiseGod is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
- Numbers 23:26דִּבַּ֤רְתִּי · tell you that; יְדַבֵּ֥ר · saysBut Balaam replied, “Did I not tell you that whatever the LORD says, I must do?”
- Numbers 24:12דִּבַּ֥רְתִּי · tellBalaam answered Balak, “Did I not already tell the messengers you sent me
- Numbers 24:13יְדַבֵּ֥ר · I must speak; אֲדַבֵּֽר׃ · says…that even if Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the LORD? I must speak whatever the LORD says.
- Numbers 25:10וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · saidThen the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 25:16וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · saidAnd the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 26:3וַיְדַבֵּ֨ר · issuedSo on the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest issued the instruction,
- Numbers 26:52וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · saidThen the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 27:7דֹּבְרֹת֒ · speak“The daughters of Zelophehad speak correctly. You certainly must give them property as an inheritance among their father’s brothers and transfer their father’s inheritance to them.
- Numbers 27:8תְּדַבֵּ֣ר · you shall sayFurthermore, you shall say to the Israelites, ‘If a man dies and leaves no son, you are to transfer his inheritance to his daughter.
- Numbers 27:15וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר · appealedSo Moses appealed to the LORD,
- Numbers 27:23דִּבֶּ֥ר · had instructed…and laid his hands on him and commissioned him, as the LORD had instructed through Moses.
- Numbers 28:1וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · saidThen the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 30:1וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר · saidThen Moses said to the heads of the tribes of Israel, “This is what the LORD has commanded:
- Numbers 31:1וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · saidAnd the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 31:3וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר · toldSo Moses told the people, “Arm some of your men for war, that they may go against the Midianites and execute the LORD’s vengeance on them.
- Numbers 32:27דֹּבֵֽר׃ · saysBut your servants are equipped for war, and every man will cross over to the battle before the LORD, just as our lord says.”
- Numbers 32:31דִּבֶּ֧ר · has spokenThe Gadites and Reubenites replied, “As the LORD has spoken to your servants, so we will do.
- Numbers 33:50וַיְדַבֵּ֧ר · saidOn the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 33:51דַּבֵּר֙ · Speak“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
- Numbers 34:1וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · saidThen the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 34:16וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · saidThen the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 35:1וַיְדַבֵּ֧ר · spokeAgain the LORD spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho:
- Numbers 35:9וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · saidThen the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 35:10דַּבֵּר֙ · Speak“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
- Numbers 36:1וַֽיְדַבְּר֞וּ · and addressed themNow the family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, one of the clans of Joseph, approached Moses and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families and addressed them,
- Numbers 36:5דֹּבְרִֽים׃ · speaksSo at the word of the LORD, Moses commanded the Israelites: “The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks correctly.
- Deuteronomy 1:1דִּבֶּ֤ר · spokeThese are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—in the Arabah opposite Suph—between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
- Deuteronomy 1:3דִּבֶּ֤ר · proclaimedIn the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.
- Deuteronomy 1:6דִּבֶּ֥ר · saidThe LORD our God said to us at Horeb: “You have stayed at this mountain long enough.
- Deuteronomy 1:11דִּבֶּ֥ר · He has promisedMay the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.
- Deuteronomy 1:14דִּבַּ֖רְתָּ · you proposeAnd you answered me and said, “What you propose to do is good.”