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דָּבָר

da.var · word

Hebrew · Strong's H1697 · Noun · Sounds like: daw-baw' · 1,442 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • word H1697G 880
  • word: thing H1697I · a Meaning of 295
  • word: deed H1697K · a Meaning of 75
  • Chronicles H1697O 60
  • word: speaking H1697H · a Meaning of 41
  • word: because H1697M · a Meaning of 33
  • word: case H1697L · a Meaning of 26
  • word: promised H1697J · a Meaning of 24
  • word: portion H1697N · a Meaning of 8

Strong's dictionary

from דָבַר; a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause; act, advice, affair, answer, [idiom] any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, [phrase] chronicles, commandment, [idiom] commune(-ication), [phrase] concern(-ing), [phrase] confer, counsel, [phrase] dearth, decree, deed, [idiom] disease, due, duty, effect, [phrase] eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-) ness, [phrase] glory, [phrase] harm, hurt, [phrase] iniquity, [phrase] judgment, language, [phrase] lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, [idiom] ought, [idiom] parts, [phrase] pertaining, [phrase] please, portion, [phrase] power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, [idiom] (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, [phrase] sign, [phrase] so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, [phrase] song, speech, [idiom] spoken, talk, task, [phrase] that, [idiom] there done, thing (concerning), thought, [phrase] thus, tidings, what(-soever), [phrase] wherewith, which, word, work.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
דָּבָר 1439 n.m. speech, word
I. sg. speech, discourse, saying, word, as the sum of that which is spoken
II. sg. saying, utterance, sentence, as a section of a discourse
III. sg. a word, words
IV. sg. matter, affair, thing about which one speaks

Every occurrence

  1. Micah 1:1 דְּבַר־ de.var- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    The word of Jehovah that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

  2. Micah 2:7 דְבָרַ֨י de.va.Rai · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, Is the Spirit of Jehovah straitened? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

  3. Micah 4:2 וּדְבַר־ u.de.var- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And many nations shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem;

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

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