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:
Proverbs 30:1: " The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man unto Ithiel,"
Proverbs 30:6: "Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove"
Proverbs 30:8: "Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither"
Proverbs 31:1: " The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother"
Ecclesiastes 1:1: " The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem."
Ecclesiastes 1:8: "All things are full of labor; man cannot utter"
Ecclesiastes 1:10: "Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new?"
Ecclesiastes 5:2: "upon earth: therefore let thy words be few."
Ecclesiastes 5:2: "thine heart to utter any thing before God: for God"
Ecclesiastes 5:3: "and a fool's is known by multitude of words."
Ecclesiastes 5:7: "in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: fear thou"
Ecclesiastes 6:11: "Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, is man"
Ecclesiastes 7:8: "Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit"
Ecclesiastes 7:21: "no heed unto all words are spoken; lest"
Ecclesiastes 8:1: "man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? wisdom maketh his face to shine,"
Ecclesiastes 8:3: "out of his sight: stand not thing; for he doeth whatsoever"
Ecclesiastes 8:4: "Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say doest"
Ecclesiastes 8:5: "shall feel no evil thing: heart discerneth both time"
Ecclesiastes 9:16: "than strength: nevertheless the poor man's is despised, and his words are not heard."
Ecclesiastes 9:17: " The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth"
Ecclesiastes 10:12: " The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool"
Ecclesiastes 10:13: "The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk madness."
Ecclesiastes 10:14: "A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell"
Ecclesiastes 10:20: "the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter."
Ecclesiastes 12:10: "sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written even words of truth."
Ecclesiastes 12:10: "words: and that which was written even words of truth."
Ecclesiastes 12:11: " The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters which are given"
Ecclesiastes 12:13: "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear and keep"
Isaiah 1:10: "Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear of our God,"
Isaiah 2:1: " The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw Judah"
Isaiah 2:3: "for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem."
Isaiah 8:10: "Take counsel together and it shall come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand:"
Isaiah 8:20: "they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light"
Isaiah 9:8: "The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel."
Isaiah 16:13: "This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning since that time."
Isaiah 24:3: "for the LORD hath spoken this word."
Isaiah 28:13: " But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept line"
Isaiah 28:14: "Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, this"
Isaiah 29:11: "And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, men deliver"
Isaiah 29:18: "day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, of the blind shall see"
Isaiah 29:21: "That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside"
Isaiah 30:12: "Because this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay"
Isaiah 30:21: "And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This"
Isaiah 31:2: "evil, and will not his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers,"
Isaiah 36:5: "I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength now"
Isaiah 36:12: "thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit"
Isaiah 36:13: "Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria."
Isaiah 36:21: "But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's was, saying,"
Isaiah 36:22: "rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh."
Isaiah 37:4: "thy God will hear the words whom the king of Assyria"
