דָבַר

da.var · to speak: speak

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

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. Judges 1:20 דִּבֶּ֣ר di.Ber · An action: strong action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses had spoken: and he drove out thence the three sons of Anak.

  2. Judges 2:4 כְּדַבֵּ֞ר ke.da.Ber · The “to do” form of an action: strong action

    And it came to pass, when the angel of Jehovah spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

  3. Judges 2:15 דִּבֶּ֣ר di.Ber · An action: strong action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Whithersoever they went out, the hand of Jehovah was against them for evil, as Jehovah had spoken, and as Jehovah had sworn unto them: and they were sore distressed.

  4. Judges 5:12 דַּבְּרִי־ da.be.ri- · A command to you: strong action

    Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, utter a song: Arise, Barak, and lead away thy captives, thou son of Abinoam.

  5. Judges 6:17 מְדַבֵּ֥ר me.da.Ber · An -ing word: strong action

    And he said unto him, If now I have found favor in thy sight, then show me a sign that it is thou that talkest with me.

  6. Judges 6:27 דִּבֶּ֥ר di.Ber · An action: strong action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Jehovah had spoken unto him: and it came to pass, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.

  7. Judges 6:36 דִּבַּֽרְתָּ׃ di.Bar.ta · An action: strong action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast spoken,

  8. Judges 6:37 דִּבַּֽרְתָּ׃ di.Bar.ta · An action: strong action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing-floor; if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the ground, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast spoken.

  9. Judges 6:39 וַאֲדַבְּרָ֖ה va.'a.da.be.Rah · A wish or plan to act: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once: let me make trial, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.

  10. Judges 7:11 יְדַבֵּ֔רוּ ye.da.Be.ru · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    and thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thy hands be strengthened to go down into the camp. Then went he down with Purah his servant unto the outermost part of the armed men that were in the camp.

  11. Judges 8:3 בְּדַבְּר֖וֹ be.da.be.Ro · The “to do” form of an action: strong action

    God hath delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison with you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.

  12. Judges 8:8 וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר vay.da.Ber · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them in like manner; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.

  13. Judges 9:1 וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר vay.da.Ber · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and spake with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,

  14. Judges 9:2 דַּבְּרוּ־ da.be.ru- · A command to all of you: strong action

    Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are threescore and ten persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.

  15. Judges 9:3 וַיְדַבְּר֨וּ vay.da.be.Ru · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by them

    And his mother's brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.

  16. Judges 9:37 לְדַבֵּר֒ le.da.Ber · The “to do” form of an action: strong action

    And Gaal spake again and said, See, there come people down by the middle of the land, and one company cometh by the way of the oak of Meonenim.

  17. Judges 11:11 וַיְדַבֵּ֨ר vay.da.Ber · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spake all his words before Jehovah in Mizpah.

  18. Judges 12:6 לְדַבֵּ֣ר le.da.Ber · The “to do” form of an action: strong action

    then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth; for he could not frame to pronounce it right: then they laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time of Ephraim forty and two thousand.

  19. Judges 13:11 דִּבַּ֥רְתָּ di.Bar.ta · An action: strong action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.

  20. Judges 14:7 וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר vay.da.Ber · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.

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