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:
Ezra 3:4: "and offered the daily by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day"
Ezra 7:1: "Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king Ezra"
Ezra 7:11: "the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to"
Ezra 8:17: "the chief at the place Casiphia, them what they should say unto"
Ezra 9:3: "And when I heard this thing, I rent and my mantle,"
Ezra 9:4: "unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God because of the transgression"
Ezra 10:4: "Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with and do"
Ezra 10:5: "to swear that they should do according to this word. And they swore."
Ezra 10:9: "of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain."
Ezra 10:12: "and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do."
Ezra 10:13: "we are many that have transgressed in this thing."
Ezra 10:14: "wrath of our God for this matter be turned from"
Ezra 10:16: "of the tenth month to examine the matter."
Nehemiah 1:1: " The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month in the twentieth"
Nehemiah 1:4: "when I heard these words, that I sat down and mourned certain days,"
Nehemiah 1:8: "Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant"
Nehemiah 2:18: "was good me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said,"
Nehemiah 2:19: "and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do?"
Nehemiah 2:20: "Then answered Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper"
Nehemiah 5:6: "their cry words."
Nehemiah 5:8: "or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing nothing"
Nehemiah 5:9: "Also I said, It is not good good that ye do:"
Nehemiah 5:12: "and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise."
Nehemiah 5:13: "that performeth not this promise, even thus be"
Nehemiah 5:13: "the LORD. And the people did according to this promise."
Nehemiah 6:4: "me four times after this sort; them after the same manner."
Nehemiah 6:4: "sort; them after the same manner."
Nehemiah 6:5: "his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter"
Nehemiah 6:6: "mayest be their king, according to these words."
Nehemiah 6:7: "shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together."
Nehemiah 6:8: "There are no such things done as thou sayest, but"
Nehemiah 6:19: "they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words sent"
Nehemiah 8:4: "of wood, they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema,"
Nehemiah 8:9: "wept, when they heard the words of the law."
Nehemiah 8:12: "mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared"
Nehemiah 8:13: "Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law."
Nehemiah 9:8: "it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:"
Nehemiah 11:23: "them, that a certain portion should be for due for every day."
Nehemiah 11:24: "was at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people."
Nehemiah 12:23: "were written in of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son"
Nehemiah 12:47: "of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the Levites"
Nehemiah 13:17: "and said unto them, What thing is this that ye do,"
Esther 1:12: "refused to come at the king's commandment his chamberlains: therefore was the king"
Esther 1:13: "(for was the king's manner toward all that knew law"
Esther 1:17: "For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all so that they shall despise"
Esther 1:18: "which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath."
Esther 1:19: "it please the king, let there go a royal commandment him, and let it be written"
Esther 1:21: " And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did"
Esther 1:21: "the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:"
Esther 2:1: "After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus he remembered"
