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:
1 Samuel 17:23: "by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words: and David"
1 Samuel 17:27: "And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So to the man"
1 Samuel 17:29: "have I now done? Is there not a cause?"
1 Samuel 17:30: "from him toward another, and spoke after the same manner:"
1 Samuel 17:30: "him toward another, and spoke after the same manner: answered him again"
1 Samuel 17:30: "after the same manner: answered him again after the former manner."
1 Samuel 17:31: " And when the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed Saul:"
1 Samuel 18:8: "was very wroth, and the saying displeased They have ascribed"
1 Samuel 18:20: "David: Saul, and the thing pleased"
1 Samuel 18:23: "spoke those words of David. And David said,"
1 Samuel 18:24: "told him, saying, On this manner David."
1 Samuel 18:26: "David these words, David"
1 Samuel 18:26: "these words, it pleased David well to be the king's"
1 Samuel 19:7: "him those things. And Jonathan brought David"
1 Samuel 20:2: "behold, my father nothing nothing either great or small,"
1 Samuel 20:2: "and why should my father hide this thing from me? it"
1 Samuel 20:21: "of thee, take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and no hurt; as the LORD liveth."
1 Samuel 20:23: " And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, be between"
1 Samuel 20:39: "knew the matter."
1 Samuel 21:2: "the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man"
1 Samuel 21:2: "know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what"
1 Samuel 21:8: "my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste."
1 Samuel 21:12: "laid up these words in his heart, afraid of"
1 Samuel 22:15: "from me: let not impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father:"
1 Samuel 24:6: "that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD's anointed,"
1 Samuel 24:7: "stayed his servants with these words, and suffered to rise against"
1 Samuel 24:9: "hearest thou words, saying, Behold, David seeketh"
1 Samuel 24:16: "of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said,"
1 Samuel 25:9: "Nabal those words in the name of David, and ceased."
1 Samuel 25:12: "him all those sayings."
1 Samuel 25:24: "in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid."
1 Samuel 25:36: "was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, him nothing, less or more,"
1 Samuel 25:37: "and his wife him these things, that his heart died within"
1 Samuel 26:16: "This thing is not good that thou hast done. liveth,"
1 Samuel 26:19: "the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up"
1 Samuel 28:10: "punishment happen to thee for this thing."
1 Samuel 28:18: "therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day."
1 Samuel 28:20: "all along on the earth, and was sore because of the words because of the words of Samuel: and"
1 Samuel 28:21: "in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spokest unto"
1 Samuel 30:24: "For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part to the battle,"
2 Samuel 1:4: "unto him, How went the matter? tell me. And he answered, That"
2 Samuel 2:6: "because ye have done this thing."
2 Samuel 3:8: "very wroth for the words of Ish-bosheth, Am I a dog's"
2 Samuel 3:11: "answer Abner a word because he feared"
2 Samuel 3:13: "with one thing I require of"
2 Samuel 3:17: "And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, Ye sought"
2 Samuel 7:4: "And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came Nathan,"
2 Samuel 7:7: "the children of Israel I a word with any of the tribes of Israel,"
2 Samuel 7:17: "According to all these words, and according to all this vision, did Nathan"
2 Samuel 7:21: "For thy word's sake, For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these"
