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Strong's #1696: dabar (pronounced daw-bar')

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, X well, X work.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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dâbar

1) to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing

1a) (Qal) to speak

1b) (Niphal) to speak with one another, talk

1c) (Piel)

1c1) to speak

1c2) to promise

1d) (Pual) to be spoken

1e) (Hithpael) to speak

1f) (Hiphil) to lead away, put to flight

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 1142 times:

Ecclesiastes 3:7: "a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;"
Ecclesiastes 7:21: "unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear"
Song of Solomon 5:6: "himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spoke: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called"
Song of Solomon 8:8: "shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? when she shall be spoken for?"
Isaiah 1:2: "O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they"
Isaiah 1:20: "for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken"
Isaiah 7:10: "Moreover the LORD spoke again unto Ahaz, saying,"
Isaiah 8:5: "The LORD spoke also unto me again, saying,"
Isaiah 8:10: "Take counsel together speak the word, and it shall not stand: for"
Isaiah 9:17: "is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this"
Isaiah 16:13: "that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time."
Isaiah 16:14: "But now hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling,"
Isaiah 19:18: "cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD"
Isaiah 20:2: "At the same spoke the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz,"
Isaiah 21:17: "the LORD God of Israel hath spoken"
Isaiah 22:25: "it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken"
Isaiah 24:3: "and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this"
Isaiah 25:8: "from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken"
Isaiah 28:11: "lips and another tongue will he speak to this people."
Isaiah 29:4: "And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust,"
Isaiah 30:10: "Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:"
Isaiah 32:4: "and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly."
Isaiah 32:6: "For will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice"
Isaiah 32:6: "iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty"
Isaiah 32:7: "with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right."
Isaiah 33:15: "He that walketh and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh"
Isaiah 36:11: "and Joah unto Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language;"
Isaiah 36:11: "for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears"
Isaiah 36:12: "me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not"
Isaiah 37:22: "which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion,"
Isaiah 38:7: "this thing that he hath spoken;"
Isaiah 38:15: "What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years"
Isaiah 39:8: "is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace"
Isaiah 40:2: " Speak to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare"
Isaiah 40:5: "for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken"
Isaiah 40:27: "Why thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD,"
Isaiah 41:1: "their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment."
Isaiah 45:19: "I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not"
Isaiah 45:19: "ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right."
Isaiah 46:11: "that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass;"
Isaiah 48:15: "I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous."
Isaiah 48:16: "me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time"
Isaiah 52:6: "that I am he that doth speak: behold,"
Isaiah 58:9: "from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;"
Isaiah 58:13: "him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:"
Isaiah 58:14: "for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken"
Isaiah 59:3: "and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness."
Isaiah 59:4: "they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth"
Isaiah 59:13: "and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving"
Isaiah 63:1: "in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty"









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