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דָּבָר

da.varwordHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine1,441 occurrences34 books1,289 verses
This word comes from the name of Chronicles.

Definition

from H1696; a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Traditional renderings: act, advice, affair, answer, × any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, chronicles, commandment, × commune(-ication), concern(-ing), confer, counsel, dearth, decree, deed, × disease, due, duty, effect, eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-) ness, glory, harm, hurt, iniquity, judgment, language, lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, × ought, × parts, pertaining, please, portion, power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, × (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, sign, so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, song, speech, × spoken, talk, task, that, × there done, thing (concerning), thought, thus, tidings, what(-soever), wherewith, which, word, work.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders דָּבָר:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,441 total
  1. 1 Kings 12:9דָּבָ֖ר · message
    He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”
  2. 1 Kings 12:15דְּבָר֗וֹ · the word
    So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word He had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.
  3. 1 Kings 12:16דָּבָ֣ר׀ · answered
    When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home,
  4. 1 Kings 12:22דְּבַ֣ר · But the word
    But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God:
  5. 1 Kings 12:24הַדָּבָ֣ר · doing; דְּבַ֣ר · to the word; כִּדְבַ֥ר · according to the word
    …that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you must return home, for this is My doing.’” So they listened to the word of the LORD and turned back according to the word of the LORD.
  6. 1 Kings 12:30הַדָּבָ֥ר · thing
    And this thing became a sin; the people walked as far as Dan to worship before one of the calves.
  7. 1 Kings 13:1בִּדְבַ֥ר · by the word
    Suddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD.
  8. 1 Kings 13:2בִּדְבַ֣ר · by the word
    And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”
  9. 1 Kings 13:4דְּבַ֣ר · the word
    Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.
  10. 1 Kings 13:5בִּדְבַ֥ר · by the word
    And the altar was split apart, and the ashes poured out, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.
  11. 1 Kings 13:9בִּדְבַ֤ר · by the word
    For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.’”
  12. 1 Kings 13:11הַדְּבָרִים֙ · the words
    Now a certain old prophet was living in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words that the man had spoken to the king.
  13. 1 Kings 13:17דָבָ֤ר · have been told; בִּדְבַ֣ר · by the word
    For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”
  14. 1 Kings 13:18בִּדְבַ֨ר · by the word
    Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,
  15. 1 Kings 13:20דְּבַר־ · the word
    While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back,
  16. 1 Kings 13:26כִּדְבַ֥ר · according to the word
    When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard this, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the command of the LORD. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, and it has mauled him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to him.”
  17. 1 Kings 13:32הַדָּבָ֗ר · the message; בִּדְבַ֣ר · by the word
    …for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”
  18. 1 Kings 13:33הַדָּבָ֣ר · events
    Even after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained anyone who desired to be a priest of the high places.
  19. 1 Kings 13:34בַּדָּבָ֣ר
    And this was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its extermination and destruction from the face of the earth.
  20. 1 Kings 14:5דָּבָ֨ר
    But the LORD had said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill. You are to say such and such to her, because when she arrives, she will be disguised.”
  21. 1 Kings 14:13דָּבָ֣ר · any
    All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam.
  22. 1 Kings 14:18כִּדְבַ֤ר · according to the word
    And they buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servant Ahijah the prophet.
  23. 1 Kings 14:19דִּבְרֵ֣י · of the acts; דִּבְרֵ֥י · of the Chronicles
    As for the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he waged war and how he reigned, they are indeed written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
  24. 1 Kings 14:29דִּבְרֵ֥י · of the acts; דִּבְרֵ֥י · of the Chronicles
    As for the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, along with all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
  25. 1 Kings 15:5בִּדְבַ֖ר · in the matter
    For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
  26. 1 Kings 15:7דִּבְרֵ֤י · of the acts; דִּבְרֵ֥י · of the Chronicles
    As for the rest of the acts of Abijam, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
  27. 1 Kings 15:23דִּבְרֵֽי־ · of the acts; דִּבְרֵ֥י · of the Chronicles
    Now the rest of the acts of Asa, along with all his might, all his accomplishments, and the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? In his old age, however, he became diseased in his feet.
  28. 1 Kings 15:29כִּדְבַ֣ר · according to the word
    As soon as Baasha became king, he struck down the entire household of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam anyone who breathed, but destroyed them all according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servant Ahijah the Shilonite,
  29. 1 Kings 15:31דִּבְרֵ֥י · of the acts; דִּבְרֵ֥י · of the Chronicles
    As for the rest of the acts of Nadab, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
  30. 1 Kings 16:1דְבַר־ · Then the word
    Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha, saying:
  31. 1 Kings 16:5דִּבְרֵ֥י · of the acts; דִּבְרֵ֥י · of the Chronicles
    As for the rest of the acts of Baasha, along with his accomplishments and might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
  32. 1 Kings 16:7דְּבַר־ · the word
    Moreover, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, because of all the evil he had done in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands and becoming like the house of Jeroboam, and also because Baasha had struck down the house of Jeroboam.
  33. 1 Kings 16:12כִּדְבַ֤ר · according to the word
    So Zimri destroyed the entire household of Baasha, according to the word that the LORD had spoken against Baasha through Jehu the prophet.
  34. 1 Kings 16:14דִּבְרֵ֥י · of the acts; דִּבְרֵ֥י · of the Chronicles
    As for the rest of the acts of Elah, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
  35. 1 Kings 16:20דִּבְרֵ֣י · of the acts; דִּבְרֵ֥י · of the Chronicles
    As for the rest of the acts of Zimri and the treason he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
  36. 1 Kings 16:27דִּבְרֵ֤י · of the acts; דִּבְרֵ֥י · of the Chronicles
    As for the rest of the acts of Omri, along with his accomplishments and the might he exercised, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
  37. 1 Kings 16:34כִּדְבַ֣ר · according to the word
    In Ahab’s days, Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest he set up its gates, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Joshua son of Nun.