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 7:25: "And now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast spoken thy servant,"
2 Samuel 7:28: "thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised"
2 Samuel 11:11: "I will not do this thing."
2 Samuel 11:18: "David all the things concerning the war;"
2 Samuel 11:19: "saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,"
2 Samuel 11:25: "Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword"
2 Samuel 11:27: "his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased"
2 Samuel 12:6: "because he did thing, and because he had no"
2 Samuel 12:9: "Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do in his sight?"
2 Samuel 12:12: "will do this thing before all Israel, and before"
2 Samuel 12:14: "Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion of the LORD"
2 Samuel 12:21: "his servants unto him, What thing is this thou hast done? thou didst fast"
2 Samuel 13:20: "regard not this thing. So Tamar remained"
2 Samuel 13:21: "of all these things, he was very wroth."
2 Samuel 13:22: "Absalom hated Amnon, because because he had forced"
2 Samuel 13:33: "my lord the king take the thing his heart, to think that all"
2 Samuel 13:35: "come: as thy servant said, so it is."
2 Samuel 14:3: "and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put"
2 Samuel 14:3: "him. So Joab put the words in her mouth."
2 Samuel 14:12: "Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word my lord the king. And he said,"
2 Samuel 14:13: "for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not"
2 Samuel 14:15: "to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because"
2 Samuel 14:15: "that the king will perform the request of his handmaid."
2 Samuel 14:17: "Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now comfortable:"
2 Samuel 14:18: "from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman"
2 Samuel 14:19: "me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:"
2 Samuel 14:20: "fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant done"
2 Samuel 14:20: "done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel"
2 Samuel 14:21: "this thing: go therefore, bring the young man"
2 Samuel 14:22: "the king hath fulfilled the request of his servant."
2 Samuel 15:3: "said unto him, See, thy matters are good but there is no man deputed of the king"
2 Samuel 15:6: "And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel came"
2 Samuel 15:11: "in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing."
2 Samuel 15:28: "of the wilderness, until word from you to certify"
2 Samuel 15:35: "the priests? that what thing soever thou shalt hear out of the king's house,"
2 Samuel 15:36: "them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear."
2 Samuel 16:23: "if a man had inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel"
2 Samuel 17:4: " And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders"
2 Samuel 17:6: "Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do after his saying? if"
2 Samuel 17:6: "manner: shall we do after his saying? if not; speak thou."
2 Samuel 17:19: "and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known."
2 Samuel 18:5: "all the captains charge concerning concerning Absalom."
2 Samuel 18:13: "I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter for there is no matter hid"
2 Samuel 19:11: "the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to"
2 Samuel 19:29: "unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? Thou and Ziba divide"
2 Samuel 19:42: "us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all"
2 Samuel 19:43: "than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back"
2 Samuel 19:43: "had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words"
2 Samuel 19:43: "of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words than the words of the men of Israel."
2 Samuel 20:17: "I am he. Then she said unto him Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear."
