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 22:20 אֲדַבֵּ֥ר 'a.da.Ber · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men are come to call thee, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak unto thee, that shalt thou do.

  2. Numbers 22:35 אֲדַבֵּ֥ר 'a.da.Ber · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    And the angel of Jehovah said unto Balaam, Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

  3. Numbers 22:35 תְדַבֵּ֑ר te.da.Ber · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    And the angel of Jehovah said unto Balaam, Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

  4. Numbers 22:38 דַּבֵּ֣ר da.Ber · The “to do” form of an action: strong action

    And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to speak anything? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.

  5. Numbers 22:38 אֲדַבֵּֽר׃ 'a.da.Ber · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to speak anything? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.

  6. Numbers 23:2 דִּבֶּ֣ר di.Ber · An action: strong action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.

  7. Numbers 23:5 תְדַבֵּֽר׃ te.da.Ber · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    And Jehovah put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

  8. Numbers 23:12 לְדַבֵּֽר׃ le.da.Ber · The “to do” form of an action: strong action

    And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Jehovah putteth in my mouth?

  9. Numbers 23:16 תְדַבֵּֽר׃ te.da.Ber · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    And Jehovah met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.

  10. Numbers 23:17 דִּבֶּ֖ר di.Ber · An action: strong action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And he came to him, and, lo, he was standing by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath Jehovah spoken?

  11. Numbers 23:19 וְדִבֶּ֖ר ve.di.Ber · An action: strong action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and will he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and will he not make it good?

  12. Numbers 23:26 דִּבַּ֤רְתִּי di.Bar.ti · An action: strong action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that Jehovah speaketh, that I must do?

  13. Numbers 23:26 יְדַבֵּ֥ר ye.da.Ber · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that Jehovah speaketh, that I must do?

  14. Numbers 24:12 דִּבַּ֥רְתִּי di.Bar.ti · An action: strong action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers that thou sentest unto me, saying,

  15. Numbers 24:13 יְדַבֵּ֥ר ye.da.Ber · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Jehovah, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; what Jehovah speaketh, that will I speak?

  16. Numbers 24:13 אֲדַבֵּֽר׃ 'a.da.Ber · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Jehovah, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; what Jehovah speaketh, that will I speak?

  17. Numbers 25:10 וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר vay.da.Ber · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

  18. Numbers 25:16 וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר vay.da.Ber · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

  19. Numbers 26:3 וַיְדַבֵּ֨ר vay.da.Ber · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

  20. Numbers 26:52 וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר vay.da.Ber · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

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