דָּבָר

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. 2 Kings 17:9דְּבָרִים֙
    The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities.
  2. 2 Kings 17:11דְּבָרִ֣ים · things
    They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger.
  3. 2 Kings 17:12הַדָּבָ֥ר · thing
    They served idols, although the LORD had told them, “You shall not do this thing.”
  4. 2 Kings 18:20דְּבַר־ · words
    You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?
  5. 2 Kings 18:27הַדְּבָרִ֣ים · words
    But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
  6. 2 Kings 18:28דְּבַר־ · the word
    Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!
  7. 2 Kings 18:36דָּבָ֑ר · a word
    But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
  8. 2 Kings 18:37דִּבְרֵ֖י · the words
    Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
  9. 2 Kings 19:4דִּבְרֵ֣י · the words; בַּדְּבָרִ֔ים · for the words
    Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
  10. 2 Kings 19:6הַדְּבָרִים֙ · the words
    …who replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
  11. 2 Kings 19:16דִּבְרֵ֣י · the words
    Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.
  12. 2 Kings 19:21הַדָּבָ֔ר · is the word
    This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.
  13. 2 Kings 20:4וּדְבַר־ · the word
    Before Isaiah had left the middle courtyard, the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
  14. 2 Kings 20:9הַדָּבָ֖ר
    And Isaiah had replied, “This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: Would you like the shadow to go forward ten steps, or back ten steps?”
  15. 2 Kings 20:13דָבָ֗ר
    And Hezekiah received the envoys and showed them all that was in his treasure house—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, as well as his armory—all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his palace or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.
  16. 2 Kings 20:15דָבָ֛ר
    “What have they seen in your palace?” Isaiah asked. “They have seen everything in my palace,” answered Hezekiah. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”
  17. 2 Kings 20:16דְּבַר־ · the word
    Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD:
  18. 2 Kings 20:17דָּבָ֖ר
    The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
  19. 2 Kings 20:19דְּבַר־ · The word
    But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Will there not at least be peace and security in my lifetime?”
  20. 2 Kings 20:20דִּבְרֵ֤י · of the acts; דִּבְרֵ֥י · of the Chronicles
    As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, along with all his might and how he constructed the pool and the tunnel to bring water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
  21. 2 Kings 21:17דִּבְרֵ֤י · of the acts; דִּבְרֵ֥י · of the Chronicles
    As for the rest of the acts of Manasseh, along with all his accomplishments and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
  22. 2 Kings 21:25דִּבְרֵ֥י · of the acts; דִּבְרֵ֥י · of the Chronicles
    As for the rest of the acts of Amon, along with his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
  23. 2 Kings 22:9דָּבָ֑ר
    And Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, “Your servants have paid out the money that was found in the temple and have put it into the hands of the workers and supervisors of the house of the LORD.”
  24. 2 Kings 22:11דִּבְרֵ֖י · the words
    When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes
  25. 2 Kings 22:13דִּבְרֵ֛י · the words; דִּבְרֵי֙ · the words
    “Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words in this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing all that is written about us.”
  26. 2 Kings 22:16דִּבְרֵ֣י · the words
    …that this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring calamity on this place and on its people, according to all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read,
  27. 2 Kings 22:18הַדְּבָרִ֖ים · As for the words
    But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘As for the words that you heard,
  28. 2 Kings 22:20דָּבָֽר׃ · answer
    ‘Therefore I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.
  29. 2 Kings 23:2דִּבְרֵי֙ · the words
    And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the prophets—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.
  30. 2 Kings 23:3דִּבְרֵי֙ · the words
    So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.
  31. 2 Kings 23:16כִּדְבַ֣ר · according to the word; הַדְּבָרִ֖ים · things
    And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.
  32. 2 Kings 23:17הַדְּבָרִ֤ים · things
    Then the king asked, “What is this monument I see?” And the men of the city replied, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things that you have done to the altar of Bethel.”
  33. 2 Kings 23:24דִּבְרֵ֤י · the words
    Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry out the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the LORD.
  34. 2 Kings 23:28דִּבְרֵ֥י · of the acts; דִּבְרֵ֥י · of the Chronicles
    As for the rest of the acts of Josiah and all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
  35. 2 Kings 24:2כִּדְבַ֣ר · according to the word
    And the LORD sent Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim in order to destroy Judah, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets.
  36. 2 Kings 24:5דִּבְרֵ֥י · of the acts; דִּבְרֵ֥י · of the Chronicles
    As for the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
  37. 2 Kings 25:30דְּבַר־
    And the king provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life.
  38. 1 Chronicles 4:22וְהַדְּבָרִ֖ים · records
    Jokim, the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and Jashubi-lehem. (These names are from ancient records.)
  39. 1 Chronicles 10:13דְּבַ֥ר · the word
    So Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance,
  40. 1 Chronicles 11:3כִּדְבַ֥ר · according to the word
    So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, where David made a covenant with them before the LORD. And they anointed him king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD through Samuel.
  41. 1 Chronicles 11:10כִּדְבַ֥ר · the word
    Now these were the chiefs of David’s mighty men, who, together with all Israel, bolstered and strengthened his kingdom, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel.
  42. 1 Chronicles 13:4הַדָּבָ֖ר · this proposal
    And because this proposal seemed right to all the people, the whole assembly agreed to it.