Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1700
דִּבְרָה
dibrahdib-raw'
cause
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: dibrâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1700is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1700
a reason, suit or style
The King James renders it: cause, end, estate, order, regard.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
dibrah is rendered "cause". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Ecclesiastes, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 5:8However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
Job 5:8דִּבְרָתִֽי׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's five uses are in Ecclesiastes.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- cause of2
- manner of1
- plea my1
- reason1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- דִּבְרַת֙1
- דִּבְרַ֗ת1
- דִּבְרַ֖ת1
- דִּ֝בְרָתִ֗י1
- דִּבְרָתִֽי׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HNcfsc
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcfsc/Sp1bs
Job
one use
However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
- דִּבְרָתִֽי׃divratinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: plea my
Psalms
one use
The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
- דִּ֝בְרָתִ֗יdivratinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: manner of
Ecclesiastes
three uses
I said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts.”
- דִּבְרַת֙divratnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cause of
In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.
- דִּבְרַ֗תdivratnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: reason
Keep the king’s command, I say, because of your oath before God.
- דִּבְרַ֖תdivratnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cause of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.