Strong's #1697: dabar (pronounced daw-baw')
from 1696; a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause:--act, advice, affair, answer, X any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, + chronicles, commandment, X commune(-ication), + concern(-ing), + confer, counsel, + dearth, decree, deed, X disease, due, duty, effect, + eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-)ness, + glory, + harm, hurt, + iniquity, + judgment, language, + lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, X ought, X parts, + pertaining, + please, portion, + power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, X (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, + sign, + so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, + song, speech, X spoken, talk, task, + that, X there done, thing (concerning), thought, + thus, tidings, what(-soever), + wherewith, which, word, work.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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dâbâr
1) speech, word, speaking, thing
1a) speech
1b) saying, utterance
1c) word, words
1d) business, occupation, acts, matter, case, something, manner
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H1696
Usage:
This word is used 1438 times:
2 Samuel 20:21: " The matter is not so: but a man of mount"
2 Samuel 22:1: "spoke unto the LORD the words of this in the day that the LORD"
2 Samuel 23:1: "Now these be the last words of David the son of Jesse"
2 Samuel 24:3: "it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?"
2 Samuel 24:4: "Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against of the host."
2 Samuel 24:11: "For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came the prophet"
2 Samuel 24:13: "advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent"
2 Samuel 24:19: "And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD"
1 Kings 1:7: " And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with the priest:"
1 Kings 1:14: "after thee, and confirm thy words."
1 Kings 1:27: "Is this thing done by my lord the king,"
1 Kings 2:4: "the LORD may continue his word which concerning me, saying,"
1 Kings 2:14: "He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she said, Say on."
1 Kings 2:23: "have not spoken this word against his own life."
1 Kings 2:27: "priest that he might fulfill the word of the LORD, which he spoke"
1 Kings 2:30: "brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab,"
1 Kings 2:38: "And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as the king"
1 Kings 2:42: "that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good."
1 Kings 3:10: " And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked"
1 Kings 3:10: "Solomon had asked this thing."
1 Kings 3:11: "him, Because thou hast asked thing, and hast not asked for thyself long"
1 Kings 3:12: "Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise heart;"
1 Kings 4:27: "every man in his month: they lacked nothing. nothing."
1 Kings 5:7: "when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, greatly, and said,"
1 Kings 6:11: " And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,"
1 Kings 6:12: "to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spoke unto"
1 Kings 6:38: "was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven"
1 Kings 8:20: "And the LORD hath performed his word that he spoke, in the room"
1 Kings 8:26: "And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, thou spakest"
1 Kings 8:56: "there hath not failed one word of all his good promise,"
1 Kings 8:56: "word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand"
1 Kings 8:59: "And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, nigh"
1 Kings 8:59: "of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:"
1 Kings 9:15: "And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon for to build"
1 Kings 10:3: "told her all her questions: there was any thing hid"
1 Kings 10:3: "her questions: there was any thing hid from the king, which"
1 Kings 10:6: "the king, It was a true report I heard in mine own land of"
1 Kings 10:6: "I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom."
1 Kings 10:7: "Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes"
1 Kings 10:25: "and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year."
1 Kings 11:10: "And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go"
1 Kings 11:27: "And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: built"
1 Kings 11:41: "And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, are they"
1 Kings 11:41: "written in the book of the acts of Solomon?"
1 Kings 12:6: "How do ye advise that I may answer that I may answer this people?"
1 Kings 12:7: "them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants forever."
1 Kings 12:9: "them, What counsel give ye that we may answer that we may answer this people,"
1 Kings 12:15: "the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spoke"
1 Kings 12:16: "unto them, the people answered answered the king, saying,"
1 Kings 12:22: " But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man saying,"
