דָבַר

da.var

Hebrew H1696 Verb 1,142 occurrences in 1,049 verses

דָבַר to speak: speak

1. to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing

a. (Qal) to speak

b. (Niphal) to speak with one another, talk

c. (Piel)

1. to speak

2. to promise

d. (Pual) to be spoken

e. (Hithpael) to speak

f. (Hiphil) to lead away, put to flight

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Concordance 1,049 verses

2 Samuel 13:36 לְדַבֵּ֗ר

And as he finished speaking, the sons of the king came in, wailing loudly. Then the king and all his servants also wept very bitterly.
2 Samuel 14:3 וְדִבַּ֥רְתְּ

Then go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.
2 Samuel 14:10 הַֽמְדַבֵּ֤ר

“If anyone speaks to you,” said the king, “bring him to me, and he will not trouble you again!”
2 Samuel 14:12 תְּדַבֶּר־דַּבֵּֽרִי׃ס

Then the woman said, “Please, may your servant speak a word to my lord the king?” “Speak,” he replied.
2 Samuel 14:13 וּמִדַּבֵּ֨ר

The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?
2 Samuel 14:15 לְדַבֵּ֨ראֲדַבְּרָה־

Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.
2 Samuel 14:18 יְדַבֶּר־

Then the king said to the woman, “I am going to ask you something; do not conceal it from me!” “Let my lord the king speak,” she replied.
2 Samuel 14:19 דִּבֶּר֙

So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.
2 Samuel 17:6 דִּבֶּ֣רדַבֵּֽר׃ס

So Hushai came to Absalom, who told him, “Ahithophel has spoken this proposal. Should we carry it out? If not, what do you say?”
2 Samuel 19:7 וְדַבֵּ֖ר

Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”
2 Samuel 19:11 דַּבְּר֞וּ

Then King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests: “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to restore the king to his palace, since the talk of all Israel has reached the king at his quarters?
2 Samuel 19:29 תְּדַבֵּ֥ר

The king replied, “Why say any more? I hereby declare that you and Ziba are to divide the land.”
2 Samuel 20:16 וַאֲדַבְּרָ֖ה

a wise woman called out from the city, “Listen! Listen! Please tell Joab to come here so that I may speak with him.”
2 Samuel 20:18 דַּבֵּ֨ריְדַבְּר֤וּ

Then the woman said, “Long ago they used to say, ‘Seek counsel at Abel,’ and that is how disputes were settled.
2 Samuel 22:1 וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר

And David sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.
2 Samuel 23:2 דִּבֶּר־

The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; His word was on my tongue.
2 Samuel 23:3 דִבֶּ֖ר

The God of Israel spoke; the Rock of Israel said to me, ‘He who rules the people with justice, who rules in the fear of God,
2 Samuel 24:12 וְדִבַּרְתָּ֣

“Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’”
1 Kings 1:14 מְדַבֶּ֥רֶת

Then, while you are still there speaking with the king, I will come in after you and confirm your words.”
1 Kings 1:22 מְדַבֶּ֖רֶת

And just then, while Bathsheba was still speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet arrived.
1 Kings 1:42 מְדַבֵּ֔ר

As he was speaking, suddenly Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest arrived. “Come in,” said Adonijah, “for you are a man of valor. You must be bringing good news.”
1 Kings 2:4 דִּבֶּ֣ר

and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
1 Kings 2:14 דַּבֵּֽר׃

Then he said, “I have something to tell you.” “Say it,” she answered.
1 Kings 2:16 דַּבֵּֽר׃

So now I have just one request of you; do not deny me.” “State your request,” she told him.
1 Kings 2:18 אֲדַבֵּ֥ר

“Very well,” Bathsheba replied. “I will speak to the king for you.”
1 Kings 2:19 לְדַבֶּר־

So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, and sat down on his throne. Then the king had a throne brought for his mother, who sat down at his right hand.
1 Kings 2:23 דִּבֶּר֙

Then King Solomon swore by the LORD: “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if Adonijah has not made this request at the expense of his life.
1 Kings 2:24 דִּבֵּ֑ר

And now, as surely as the LORD lives—the One who established me, who set me on the throne of my father David, and who founded for me a dynasty as He promised—surely Adonijah shall be put to death today!”
1 Kings 2:27 דִּבֶּ֛ר

So Solomon banished Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD and thus fulfilled the word that the LORD had spoken at Shiloh against the house of Eli.
1 Kings 2:30 דִבֶּ֥ר

And Benaiah entered the tent of the LORD and said to Joab, “The king says, ‘Come out!’” But Joab replied, “No, I will die here.” So Benaiah relayed the message to the king, saying, “This is how Joab answered me.”
1 Kings 2:31 דִּבֶּ֔ר

And the king replied, “Do just as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so remove from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood that Joab shed.
1 Kings 2:38 דִּבֶּר֙

“The sentence is fair,” Shimei replied. “Your servant will do as my lord the king has spoken.” And Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time.
1 Kings 3:22 וַתְּדַבֵּ֖רְנָה

“No,” said the other woman, “the living one is my son and the dead one is your son.” But the first woman insisted, “No, the dead one is yours and the living one is mine.” So they argued before the king.
1 Kings 4:32 וַיְדַבֵּ֕ר

Solomon composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.
1 Kings 4:33 וַיְדַבֵּר֮וַיְדַבֵּר֙

He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.
1 Kings 5:5 דִּבֶּ֣ר

So behold, I plan to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God, according to what the LORD said to my father David: ‘I will put your son on your throne in your place, and he will build the house for My Name.’
1 Kings 5:12 דִּבֶּר־

And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
1 Kings 6:12 דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי

“As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.
1 Kings 8:15 דִּבֶּ֣ר

and said: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has fulfilled with His own hand what He spoke with His mouth to my father David, saying,
1 Kings 8:20 דִּבֵּ֑רדִּבֶּ֣ר

Now the LORD has fulfilled the word that He spoke. I have succeeded my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built the house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
1 Kings 8:24 דִּבַּ֖רְתָּוַתְּדַבֵּ֥ר

You have kept Your promise to Your servant, my father David. What You spoke with Your mouth You have fulfilled with Your hand this day.
1 Kings 8:25 דִּבַּ֤רְתָּ

Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.’
1 Kings 8:26 דִּבַּ֔רְתָּ

And now, O God of Israel, please confirm what You promised to Your servant, my father David.
1 Kings 8:53 דִּבַּ֜רְתָּ

For You, O Lord GOD, as Your inheritance, have set them apart from all the peoples of the earth, as You spoke through Your servant Moses when You brought our fathers out of Egypt.”
1 Kings 8:56 דִּבֵּ֑רדִּבֶּ֔ר

“Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel according to all that He promised. Not one word has failed of all the good promises He made through His servant Moses.
1 Kings 9:5 דִּבַּ֗רְתִּי

then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David when I said, ‘You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
1 Kings 10:2 וַתְּדַבֵּ֣ר

She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large caravan—with camels bearing spices, gold in great abundance, and precious stones. So she came to Solomon and spoke to him all that was on her mind.
1 Kings 12:3 וַֽיְדַבְּר֔וּ

So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and the whole assembly of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,
1 Kings 12:7 וַיְדַבֵּרוְדִבַּרְתָּ֥

They replied, “If you will be a servant to these people and serve them this day, and if you will respond by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
1 Kings 12:9 דִּבְּר֤וּ

He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”