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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. Deuteronomy 23:23דִּבַּ֖רְתָּ
    Be careful to follow through on what comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed to the LORD your God with your own mouth.
  2. Deuteronomy 25:8וְדִבְּר֣וּ · and speak
    Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, “I do not want to marry her,”
  3. Deuteronomy 26:18דִּבֶּר־ · He promised
    And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,
  4. Deuteronomy 26:19דִּבֵּֽר׃ס · He has promised
    …that He will set you high in praise and name and honor above all the nations He has made, and that you will be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has promised.
  5. Deuteronomy 27:3דִּבֶּ֛ר · has promised you
    Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
  6. Deuteronomy 27:9וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר · spoke
    Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel: “Be silent, O Israel, and listen! This day you have become the people of the LORD your God.
  7. Deuteronomy 29:13דִּבֶּר־ · He promised
    …and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  8. Deuteronomy 31:1וַיְדַבֵּ֛ר · speaking
    When Moses had finished speaking these words to all Israel,
  9. Deuteronomy 31:3דִּבֶּ֥ר · has said
    The LORD your God Himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will dispossess them. Joshua will cross ahead of you, as the LORD has said.
  10. Deuteronomy 31:28וַאֲדַבְּרָ֣ה · so that I may speak
    Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and all your officers so that I may speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
  11. Deuteronomy 31:30וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר · recited aloud
    Then Moses recited aloud to the whole assembly of Israel the words of this song from beginning to end:
  12. Deuteronomy 32:1וַאֲדַבֵּ֑רָה · and I will speak
    Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
  13. Deuteronomy 32:44וַיְדַבֵּ֛ר · and recited
    Then Moses came with Joshua son of Nun and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.
  14. Deuteronomy 32:45לְדַבֵּ֛ר · reciting
    When Moses had finished reciting all these words to all Israel,
  15. Deuteronomy 32:48וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר · said
    On that same day the LORD said to Moses,
  16. Joshua 1:3דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי · I promised
    I have given you every place where the sole of your foot will tread, just as I promised to Moses.
  17. Joshua 4:8דִּבֶּ֤ר · had told
    Thus the Israelites did as Joshua had commanded them. They took up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, one for each tribe of Israel, just as the LORD had told Joshua; and they carried them to the camp, where they set them down.
  18. Joshua 4:10לְדַבֵּ֣ר · to tell
    Now the priests who carried the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan until the people had completed everything the LORD had commanded Joshua to tell them, just as Moses had directed Joshua. The people hurried across,
  19. Joshua 4:12דִּבֶּ֥ר · had instructed them
    The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over before the Israelites, armed for battle as Moses had instructed them.
  20. Joshua 5:14מְדַבֵּ֥ר · have to say
    “Neither,” He replied. “I have now come as Commander of the LORD’s army.” Then Joshua fell facedown in reverence and asked Him, “What does my Lord have to say to His servant?”
  21. Joshua 9:21דִּבְּר֥וּ · kept their promise
    They continued, “Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for the whole congregation.” So the leaders kept their promise.
  22. Joshua 9:22וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · and said
    Then Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said, “Why did you deceive us by telling us you live far away from us, when in fact you live among us?
  23. Joshua 10:12יְדַבֵּ֤ר · spoke
    On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”
  24. Joshua 11:23דִּבֶּ֣ר · had spoken
    So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.
  25. Joshua 13:14דִּבֶּר־ · He had promised
    To the tribe of Levi, however, Moses had given no inheritance. The food offerings to the LORD, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, just as He had promised them.
  26. Joshua 13:33דִּבֶּ֥ר · He had promised
    To the tribe of Levi, however, Moses had given no inheritance. The LORD, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, just as He had promised them.
  27. Joshua 14:6דִּבֶּ֨ר · said
    Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me.
  28. Joshua 14:10דִּבֵּר֒ · [the LORD] promised; דִּבֶּ֨ר · spoke
    Now behold, as the LORD promised, He has kept me alive these forty-five years since He spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old,
  29. Joshua 14:12דִּבֶּ֥ר · promised me; דִּבֶּ֥ר · has spoken
    Now therefore give me this hill country that the LORD promised me on that day, for you yourself heard then that the Anakim were there, with great and fortified cities. Perhaps with the LORD’s help I will drive them out, as the LORD has spoken.”
  30. Joshua 17:14וַֽיְדַבְּרוּ֙ · said
    Then the sons of Joseph said to Joshua, “Why have you given us only one portion as an inheritance? We have many people, because the LORD has blessed us abundantly.”
  31. Joshua 20:1וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר · said
    Then the LORD said to Joshua,
  32. Joshua 20:2דַּבֵּ֛ר · Tell; דִּבַּ֥רְתִּי · I instructed
    “Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,
  33. Joshua 20:4וְדִבֶּ֛ר · and states
    When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before its elders, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them.
  34. Joshua 21:2וַיְדַבְּר֨וּ · and said
    …at Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said to them, “The LORD commanded through Moses that we be given cities in which to live, together with pasturelands for our livestock.”
  35. Joshua 21:45דִּבֶּ֥ר
    Not one of all the LORD’s good promises to the house of Israel had failed; everything was fulfilled.
  36. Joshua 22:4דִּבֶּ֣ר · He promised
    And now that the LORD your God has given your brothers rest as He promised them, you may return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you across the Jordan.
  37. Joshua 22:15וַיְדַבְּר֥וּ · and said
    They went to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in the land of Gilead and said to them,
  38. Joshua 22:21וַֽיְדַבְּר֔וּ
    Then the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders of the clans of Israel:
  39. Joshua 22:30דִּבְּר֛וּ · had to say
    When Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation—the heads of Israel’s clans who were with him—heard what the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had to say, they were satisfied.
  40. Joshua 23:5דִּבֶּ֛ר · promised
    The LORD your God will push them out of your way and drive them out before you, so that you can take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you.
  41. Joshua 23:10דִּבֶּ֥ר · He promised
    One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised.
  42. Joshua 23:14דִּבֶּ֜ר · made
    Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.
  43. Joshua 23:15דִּבֶּ֛ר · promised
    But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.
  44. Joshua 24:27דִּבֶּ֖ר · has spoken
    And Joshua said to all the people, “You see this stone. It will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us, and it will be a witness against you if you ever deny your God.”
  45. Judges 1:20דִּבֶּ֣ר · had promised
    Just as Moses had promised, Judah gave Hebron to Caleb, who drove out the descendants of the three sons of Anak.
  46. Judges 2:4כְּדַבֵּ֞ר · had spoken
    When the angel of the LORD had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
  47. Judges 2:15דִּבֶּ֣ר
    Wherever Israel marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them to bring calamity, just as He had sworn to them. So they were greatly distressed.