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. Numbers 6:23 דַּבֵּ֤ר da.Ber · A command to you: strong action

    Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel: ye shall say unto them,

  2. Numbers 7:89 לְדַבֵּ֣ר le.da.Ber · The “to do” form of an action: strong action

    And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with him, then he heard the Voice speaking unto him from above the mercy-seat that was upon the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim: and he spake unto him.

  3. Numbers 7:89 מִדַּבֵּ֣ר mi.da.Ber · An -ing word: doing it to oneself

    And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with him, then he heard the Voice speaking unto him from above the mercy-seat that was upon the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim: and he spake unto him.

  4. Numbers 7:89 וַיְדַבֵּ֖ר vay.da.Ber · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with him, then he heard the Voice speaking unto him from above the mercy-seat that was upon the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim: and he spake unto him.

  5. Numbers 8:1 וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר vay.da.Ber · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

  6. Numbers 8:2 דַּבֵּר֙ da.Ber · A command to you: strong action

    Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the candlestick.

  7. Numbers 8:5 וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר vay.da.Ber · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

  8. Numbers 8:23 וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר vay.da.Ber · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

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

    And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

  10. Numbers 9:4 וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר vay.da.Ber · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.

  11. Numbers 9:9 וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר vay.da.Ber · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

  12. Numbers 9:10 דַּבֵּ֛ר da.Ber · A command to you: strong action

    Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto Jehovah.

  13. Numbers 10:1 וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר vay.da.Ber · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

  14. Numbers 10:29 דִּבֶּר־ di.ber- · An action: strong action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, We are journeying unto the place of which Jehovah said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for Jehovah hath spoken good concerning Israel.

  15. Numbers 11:17 וְדִבַּרְתִּ֣י ve.di.bar.Ti · An action: strong action, and then it will happen, done by me

    And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the Spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.

  16. Numbers 11:24 וַיְדַבֵּר֙ vay.da.Ber · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Moses went out, and told the people the words of Jehovah: and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the Tent.

  17. Numbers 11:25 וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר vay.da.Ber · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.

  18. Numbers 12:1 וַתְּדַבֵּ֨ר va.te.da.Ber · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.

  19. Numbers 12:2 דִּבֶּ֣ר di.Ber · An action: strong action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And they said, Hath Jehovah indeed spoken only with Moses? hath he not spoken also with us? And Jehovah heard it.

  20. Numbers 12:2 דִבֵּ֑ר di.Ber · An action: strong action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And they said, Hath Jehovah indeed spoken only with Moses? hath he not spoken also with us? And Jehovah heard it.

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