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Word Study · Strong's H1696 · Hebrew

דָבַר

dabar

daw-bar'

Strong's 1890 spelling: dâbar

perhaps properly, to arrange

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue

Rendered in the KJV as

answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, [idiom] well, [idiom] work.

  • 1,141
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 7 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 183
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 183

  • וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר82
  • דִּבֶּ֥ר35
  • וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר27
  • לְדַבֵּ֣ר11
  • דִּבֶּר־10
  • דִּבֶּ֨ר9
  • דַּבֵּר֙9
  • דַּבֵּ֞ר9
  • וַיְדַבֵּ֨ר9
  • וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר9
  • דִּבֶּ֣ר8
  • דִּבֶּ֤ר6

and 171 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 96

  • and he spoke143
  • speak48
  • he spoke37
  • he had spoken26
  • to speak26
  • he has spoken15
  • you will speak12
  • and they spoke11
  • he had said9
  • he will speak9
  • they speak7
  • you have spoken7

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 59

  • Hc/Vpw3ms142
  • verb · intensive (piel), completed action · 3rd person masculine singular94
  • verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singular44
  • preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)30
  • verb · intensive (piel), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singular24
  • verb · intensive (piel), ongoing or future action · 2nd person masculine singular15
  • verb · intensive (piel), completed action · 1st person common singular12
  • Hc/Vpw3mp11
  • verb · intensive (piel), ongoing or future action · 1st person common singular10
  • Hc/Vpq3ms9
  • verb · intensive (piel), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine plural9
  • verb · intensive (piel), completed action · 2nd person masculine singular9
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • Hc/Vpw3ms · 142
  • HVpp3ms · 94
  • HVpv2ms · 44
  • HR/Vpcc · 30
  • HVpi3ms · 24
  • HVpi2ms · 15
  • HVpp1cs · 12
  • Hc/Vpw3mp · 11
  • HVpi1cs · 10
  • Hc/Vpq3ms · 9
  • HVpi3mp · 9
  • HVpp2ms · 9

The first 500 of 1,141, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Numbers carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis73 occurrences
Exodus87 occurrences
Leviticus66 occurrences
Numbers119 occurrences
Deuteronomy70 occurrences
Joshua27 occurrences
Psalms58 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).