דָבַר

da.var · to speak: speak

Hebrew · Strong's H1696 · Verb · Sounds like: daw-bar' · 1,142 occurrences

English

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • to speak: speak H1696G 1,058
  • to speak: promise H1696I · a Meaning of 81
  • to speak: subdue H1696H · a Meaning of 3

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue; answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, [idiom] well, [idiom] work.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[דָבַר] 1142 vb. speak (original mng. dub.)
Qal speak
Niph. reciprocal sense, speak with one another, talk
Pi. speak
Pu. in the day when she may be spoken for
Hithp. speaking this word
Hiph. either leads subject, or puts to flight, fig. for subdues

Every occurrence

  1. Amos 3:1 דִּבֶּ֧ר di.Ber · An action: strong action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Hear this word that Jehovah hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying,

  2. Amos 3:8 דִּבֶּ֔ר di.Ber · An action: strong action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    The lion hath roared; who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken; who can but prophesy?

  3. Amos 5:10 וְדֹבֵ֥ר ve.do.Ver · An -ing word: simple action

    They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

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