דָּבָר
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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.
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
Occurrences
1,441 total
- Isaiah 36:13דִּבְרֵ֛י · the wordsThen the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
- Isaiah 36:21דָּבָ֑רBut the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
- Isaiah 36:22דִּבְרֵ֥י · the wordsThen 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.
- Isaiah 37:4דִּבְרֵ֣י · the words; בַּדְּבָרִ֔ים · for the wordsPerhaps the LORD your God will hear 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.”
- Isaiah 37:6הַדְּבָרִים֙ · 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.
- Isaiah 37:17דִּבְרֵ֣י · the wordsIncline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to all the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.
- Isaiah 37:22הַדָּבָ֔ר · 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.
- Isaiah 38:4דְּבַר־ · And the wordAnd the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,
- Isaiah 38:7הַדָּבָ֥ר · whatThis will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised:
- Isaiah 39:2דָבָ֗רAnd Hezekiah welcomed the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his treasure house—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, as well as his entire 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.
- Isaiah 39:4דָבָ֛ר“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.”
- Isaiah 39:5דְּבַר־ · the wordThen Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD of Hosts:
- Isaiah 39:6דָּבָ֖רThe 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.
- Isaiah 39:8דְּבַר־ · The wordBut Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “At least there will be peace and security in my lifetime.”
- Isaiah 40:8וּדְבַר־ · but the wordThe grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
- Isaiah 41:28דָבָֽר׃When I look, there is no one; there is no counselor among them; when I ask them, they have nothing to say.
- Isaiah 42:16הַדְּבָרִ֔ים · thingsI will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
- Isaiah 44:26דְּבַ֣ר · the message…who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,’
- Isaiah 45:23דָּבָ֖ר · a wordBy Myself I have sworn; truth has gone out from My mouth, a word that will not be revoked: Every knee will bow before Me, every tongue will swear allegiance.
- Isaiah 50:4דָּבָ֑ר · with a wordThe Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.
- Isaiah 51:16דְּבָרַי֙ · My wordsI have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”
- Isaiah 55:11דְבָרִי֙ · My word…so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
- Isaiah 58:13דָּבָֽר׃ · idle wordsIf you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle words,
- Isaiah 59:13דִּבְרֵי־…rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
- Isaiah 59:21וּדְבָרַ֖י · and My words“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
- Isaiah 66:2דְּבָרִֽי׃ · My wordHas not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.
- Isaiah 66:5דְּבַר־ · the word; דְּבָר֑וֹ · His wordYou who tremble at His word, hear the word of the LORD: “Your brothers who hate you and exclude you because of My name have said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified that we may see your joy!’ But they will be put to shame.”
- Jeremiah 1:1דִּבְרֵ֥י · [These are] the wordsThese are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.
- Jeremiah 1:2דְבַר־ · The wordThe word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,
- Jeremiah 1:4דְבַר־ · The wordThe word of the LORD came to me, saying:
- Jeremiah 1:9דְבָרַ֖י · My wordsThen the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
- Jeremiah 1:11דְבַר־ · And the wordAnd the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied.
- Jeremiah 1:12דְּבָרִ֖י · My word“You have observed correctly,” said the LORD, “for I am watching over My word to accomplish it.”
- Jeremiah 1:13דְבַר־ · the wordAgain the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “What do you see?” “I see a boiling pot,” I replied, “and it is tilting toward us from the north.”
- Jeremiah 2:1דְבַר־ · Now the wordNow the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Jeremiah 2:4דְבַר־ · the wordHear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all you families of the house of Israel.
- Jeremiah 2:31דְבַר־ · the wordYou people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?
- Jeremiah 3:12הַדְּבָרִ֨ים · messageGo, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.
- Jeremiah 5:14הַדָּבָ֖ר · word; דְּבָרַ֨י · My wordsTherefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.
- Jeremiah 5:28דִבְרֵי־ · in the deedsThey have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
- Jeremiah 6:10דְבַר־ · the wordTo whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
- Jeremiah 6:19דְּבָרַי֙ · My wordHear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.
- Jeremiah 7:1הַדָּבָר֙ · This is the wordThis is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
- Jeremiah 7:2הַדָּבָ֖ר · message; דְבַר־ · the word“Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.
- Jeremiah 7:4דִּבְרֵ֥י · wordsDo not trust in deceptive words, saying: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
- Jeremiah 7:8דִּבְרֵ֖י · wordsBut look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.