דָבַר
dâbar · daw-bar'
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
- perhaps properly, to arrange
- but used figuratively (of words), to speak
- rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: 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.
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › the house, what is within › the head, the highest
The doorway, the way in of the house, what is within of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דָבַר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
1142 occurrences · 1142 OT · 0 NT · 376 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- spake183 · 33%
- speak77 · 14%
- hath spoken40 · 7%
- and spake22 · 4%
- and speak20 · 4%
- which he spake20 · 4%
- to speak16 · 3%
- have spoken16 · 3%
- said16 · 3%
- had spoken15 · 3%
- hath said14 · 3%
- had said11 · 2%
- speaketh11 · 2%
- speaking10 · 2%
- that talked10 · 2%
- and he spake10 · 2%
- and thou shalt speak9 · 2%
- shall speak9 · 2%
- of speaking9 · 2%
- and they spake7 · 1%
- and i will speak7 · 1%
- talked6 · 1%
- as thou hast said5 · 1%
- spoken5 · 1%
- and said5 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
- Genesis73
- Exodus87
- Leviticus66
- Numbers119
- Deuteronomy70
- Joshua32
- Judges27
- Ruth3
- 1 Samuel41
- 2 Samuel38
- 1 Kings77
- 2 Kings50
- 1 Chronicles10
- 2 Chronicles34
- Ezra1
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.