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
- Numbers 25:18דְּבַר־ · the matter; דְּבַ֞ר; דְּבַר־ · because ofFor they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, the woman who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.”
- Numbers 30:1הַדָּבָ֔רThen Moses said to the heads of the tribes of Israel, “This is what the LORD has commanded:
- Numbers 30:2דְּבָר֑וֹ · his wordIf a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised.
- Numbers 31:16בִּדְבַ֣ר · through the counsel; דְּבַר־“Look, these women caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to turn unfaithfully against the LORD at Peor, so that the plague struck the congregation of the LORD.
- Numbers 31:23דָּבָ֞ר…everything that can withstand the fire—must be put through the fire, and it will be clean. But it must still be purified with the water of purification. And everything that cannot withstand the fire must pass through the water.
- Numbers 32:20הַדָּבָ֣רMoses replied, “If you will do this—if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for battle,
- Numbers 36:6הַדָּבָ֞רThis is what the LORD has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: They may marry anyone they please, provided they marry within a clan of the tribe of their father.
- Deuteronomy 1:1הַדְּבָרִ֗ים · are the wordsThese 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 1:14הַדָּבָ֥רAnd you answered me and said, “What you propose to do is good.”
- Deuteronomy 1:17וְהַדָּבָר֙ · any caseShow no partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. And bring to me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.”
- Deuteronomy 1:18הַדְּבָרִ֖ים · the thingsAnd at that time I commanded you all the things you were to do.
- Deuteronomy 1:22דָּבָ֔ר · wordThen all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us to search out the land and bring us word of what route to follow and which cities to enter.”
- Deuteronomy 1:23הַדָּבָ֑ר · The planThe plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.
- Deuteronomy 1:25דָבָר֙ · wordThey took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
- Deuteronomy 1:32וּבַדָּבָ֖ר · But in spiteBut in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,
- Deuteronomy 1:34דִּבְרֵיכֶ֑ם · your wordsWhen the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,
- Deuteronomy 2:7דָּבָֽר׃Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.
- Deuteronomy 2:26דִּבְרֵ֥י · with an offerSo from the Wilderness of Kedemoth I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon, saying,
- Deuteronomy 3:26בַּדָּבָ֥ר · matterBut the LORD was angry with me on account of you, and He would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the LORD said to me. “Do not speak to Me again about this matter.
- Deuteronomy 4:2הַדָּבָר֙You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.
- Deuteronomy 4:9הַדְּבָרִ֜ים · the thingsOnly be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
- Deuteronomy 4:10דְּבָרָ֑י · My wordsThe day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”
- Deuteronomy 4:12דְּבָרִים֙ · of the wordsAnd the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of the words but saw no form; there was only a voice.
- Deuteronomy 4:13הַדְּבָרִ֑ים · CommandmentsHe declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.
- Deuteronomy 4:21דִּבְרֵיכֶ֑ם · of youThe LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 4:30הַדְּבָרִ֣ים · thingsWhen you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.
- Deuteronomy 4:32כַּדָּבָ֤ר · as thisIndeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?
- Deuteronomy 4:36וּדְבָרָ֥יו · His wordsHe let you hear His voice from heaven to discipline you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the fire.
- Deuteronomy 5:5דְּבַ֣ר · the wordAt that time I was standing between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain. And He said:
- Deuteronomy 5:22הַדְּבָרִ֣ים · commandmentsThe LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
- Deuteronomy 5:28דִּבְרֵיכֶ֔ם · the words; דִּבְרֵ֜י · the wordsAnd the LORD heard the words you spoke to me, and He said to me, “I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.
- Deuteronomy 6:6הַדְּבָרִ֣ים · wordsThese words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.
- Deuteronomy 9:5הַדָּבָ֗ר · the promiseIt is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 9:10הַדְּבָרִ֡ים · wordsThen the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.
- Deuteronomy 10:2הַדְּבָרִ֔ים · the wordsAnd I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you are to place them in the ark.”
- Deuteronomy 10:4הַדְּבָרִ֔ים · CommandmentsAnd the LORD wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that He had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly. The LORD gave them to me,
- Deuteronomy 11:18דְּבָרַ֣י · words of mineFix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
- Deuteronomy 12:28הַדְּבָרִ֣ים · thingsBe careful to obey all these things I command you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 12:32הַדָּבָ֗רSee that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.
- Deuteronomy 13:3דִּבְרֵי֙ · the words…you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 13:11כַּדָּבָ֥ר · suchThen all Israel will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you.
- Deuteronomy 13:14הַדָּבָ֔ר…then you must inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. And if it is established with certainty that this abomination has been committed among you,
- Deuteronomy 15:2דְּבַ֣ר · is the mannerThis is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed.
- Deuteronomy 15:9דָבָר֩ · thoughtBe careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
- Deuteronomy 15:10הַדָּבָ֣רGive generously to him, and do not let your heart be grieved when you do so. And because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything to which you put your hand.
- Deuteronomy 15:15הַדָּבָ֥ר · commandRemember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.