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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. Genesis 8:15וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · said
    Then God said to Noah,
  2. Genesis 12:4דִּבֶּ֤ר · had directed him
    So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
  3. Genesis 16:13הַדֹּבֵ֣ר · who had spoken
    So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”
  4. Genesis 17:3וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · said
    Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,
  5. Genesis 17:22לְדַבֵּ֣ר · speaking
    When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.
  6. Genesis 17:23דִּבֶּ֥ר · had told
    On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.
  7. Genesis 18:5דִּבַּֽרְתָּ׃ · you have said
    And I will bring a bit of bread so that you may refresh yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant’s way. After that, you may continue on your way.” “Yes,” they replied, “you may do as you have said.”
  8. Genesis 18:19דִּבֶּ֖ר · He has promised
    For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
  9. Genesis 18:27לְדַבֵּ֣ר · to speak
    Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—
  10. Genesis 18:29לְדַבֵּ֤ר · [Abraham] spoke
    Once again Abraham spoke to the LORD, “Suppose forty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the forty, I will not do it.”
  11. Genesis 18:30וַאֲדַבֵּ֔רָה · but let me speak [further]
    Then Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak further. Suppose thirty are found there?” He replied, “If I find thirty there, I will not do it.”
  12. Genesis 18:31לְדַבֵּ֣ר · to speak
    And Abraham said, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord, suppose twenty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the twenty, I will not destroy it.”
  13. Genesis 18:32וַאֲדַבְּרָ֣ה · but let me speak
    Finally, Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak once more. Suppose ten are found there?” And He answered, “On account of the ten, I will not destroy it.”
  14. Genesis 18:33לְדַבֵּ֖ר · speaking
    When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned home.
  15. Genesis 19:14וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר׀ · and spoke
    So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
  16. Genesis 19:21דִּבַּֽרְתָּ׃ · you indicate
    “Very well,” he answered, “I will grant this request as well, and will not demolish the town you indicate.
  17. Genesis 20:8וַיְדַבֵּ֛ר · and when he described to them
    Early the next morning Abimelech got up and summoned all his servants; and when he described to them all that had happened, the men were terrified.
  18. Genesis 21:1דִּבֵּֽר׃ · He had promised
    Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.
  19. Genesis 21:2דִּבֶּ֥ר · had promised
    So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.
  20. Genesis 23:3וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · and said
    Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,
  21. Genesis 23:8וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · he said
    “If you are willing for me to bury my dead,” he said to them, “listen to me, and approach Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf
  22. Genesis 23:13וַיְדַבֵּ֨ר · and said
    …and said to Ephron in their presence, “If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there.”
  23. Genesis 23:16דִּבֶּ֖ר · he had named
    Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.
  24. Genesis 24:7דִּבֶּר־ · spoke
    The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.
  25. Genesis 24:15לְדַבֵּר֒ · praying
    Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.
  26. Genesis 24:30דִבֶּ֥ר · said
    As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.
  27. Genesis 24:33דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי · I have told you; דַּבֵּֽר׃ · Please speak
    Then a meal was set before the man, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I came to say.” So Laban said, “Please speak.”
  28. Genesis 24:45לְדַבֵּ֣ר · praying
    And before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’
  29. Genesis 24:50דַּבֵּ֥ר
    Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.
  30. Genesis 24:51דִּבֶּ֥ר · has decreed
    Rebekah is here before you. Take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master’s son, just as the LORD has decreed.”
  31. Genesis 27:5בְּדַבֵּ֣ר · told
    Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back,
  32. Genesis 27:6מְדַבֵּ֛ר · saying
    Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,
  33. Genesis 27:19דִּבַּ֖רְתָּ · you told me
    Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”
  34. Genesis 28:15דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי · I have promised
    Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
  35. Genesis 29:9מְדַבֵּ֣ר · he was still speaking
    While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
  36. Genesis 31:24תְּדַבֵּ֥ר · to say
    But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
  37. Genesis 31:29מִדַּבֵּ֥ר · not to say
    I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
  38. Genesis 32:19תְּדַבְּר֣וּן · you are to say
    He also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him.
  39. Genesis 34:3וַיְדַבֵּ֖ר · and spoke to her tenderly
    And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.
  40. Genesis 34:6לְדַבֵּ֖ר · to speak
    Meanwhile, Shechem’s father Hamor came to speak with Jacob.
  41. Genesis 34:8וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר · said
    But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.
  42. Genesis 34:13וַיְדַבֵּ֑רוּ
    But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.
  43. Genesis 34:20וַֽיְדַבְּר֛וּ · and addressed
    So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and addressed the men of their city:
  44. Genesis 35:13דִּבֶּ֥ר · He had spoken
    Then God went up from the place where He had spoken with him.
  45. Genesis 35:14דִּבֶּ֥ר · [God] had spoken
    So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.
  46. Genesis 35:15דִּבֶּ֨ר · had spoken
    Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
  47. Genesis 37:4דַּבְּר֥וֹ · speak
    When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
  48. Genesis 39:10כְּדַבְּרָ֥הּ · [Potiphar’s wife] spoke
    Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.
  49. Genesis 39:17וַתְּדַבֵּ֣ר · Then she told him
    Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,