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)
Every occurrence
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Proverbs 2:12 מְדַבֵּ֥ר me.da.Ber · An -ing word: strong action
To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;
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Proverbs 8:6 אֲדַבֵּ֑ר 'a.da.Ber · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me
Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening of my lips shall be right things.
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Proverbs 16:13 וְדֹבֵ֖ר ve.do.Ver · An -ing word: simple action
Righteous lips are the delight of kings; And they love him that speaketh right.
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Proverbs 18:23 יְדַבֶּר־ ye.da.ber- · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
The poor useth entreaties; But the rich answereth roughly.
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Proverbs 21:28 יְדַבֵּֽר׃ ye.da.Ber · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
A false witness shall perish; But the man that heareth shall speak so as to endure.
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Proverbs 23:9 תְּדַבֵּ֑ר te.da.Ber · A mild command: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you
Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
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Proverbs 23:16 בְּדַבֵּ֥ר be.da.Ber · The “to do” form of an action: strong action
Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.
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Proverbs 23:33 יְדַבֵּ֥ר ye.da.Ber · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.
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Proverbs 24:2 תְּדַבֵּֽרְנָה׃ te.da.Be.re.nah · An action: strong action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them
For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief.
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Proverbs 25:11 דָּבֻ֥ר da.Vur · An -ing word: simple action, it is done to the subject
A word fitly spoken Is like apples of gold in network of silver.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.