Strong's Hebrew · H1696
H1696 dâbar
דָבַר
daw-bar'
to speak
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dâbar appears 1,140 times in Scripture, including Genesis 8:15 and Genesis 12:4. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
In the King James Version
answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, × well, × work.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 1,140 times in Scripture
“Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—”
“So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!””
“Once again Abraham spoke to the LORD, “Suppose forty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the forty, I will not do it.””
“Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,”
“On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.”
“For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.””
“Then God said to Noah,”
“And I will bring a bit of bread so that you may refresh yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant’s way. After that, you may continue on your way.” “Yes,” they replied, “you may do as you have said.””
“When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.”
“So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
