דָּוִד

da.vid

Hebrew H1732 Personal name, masculine 1,075 occurrences in 910 verses
דָּוִד David

A king of the tribe of Judah living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at Rut.4.17;

son of: Jesse (H3448) and Nahash (H5176I);

brother of: Eliab (H0446I), Abinadab (H0041I), Shimeah (H8093), Zeruiah (H6870), Abigail (H0026H)(?), Nethanel (H5417H), Raddai (H7288), Ozem (H0684) and Elihu (H0453J); married to Michal (H4324), Abigail (H0026), Ahinoam (H0293H), Maacah (H4601I), Haggith (H2294), Abital (H0037), Eglah (H5698) and Bathsheba (H1339);

father of: Amnon (H0550), Chileab (H3609), Absalom (H0053), Adonijah (H0138), Shephatiah (H8203), Ithream (H3507), Shammua (H8051H), Shobab (H7727), Nathan (H5416), Solomon (H8010), Ibhar (H2984), Elishua (H0474), Nepheg (H5298H), Japhia (H3309I), Elishama (H0476H), Eliada (H0450), Eliphelet (H0467), Tamar (H8559H), Elpelet (H0467I), Nogah (H5052) and Jerimoth (H3406N)

Also named: Daueid, Dauid, Dabid (Δαυείδ, Δαυίδ, Δαβίδ "David" G1138)

§ David = "beloved"

youngest son of Jesse and second king of Israel

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Concordance 910 verses

  1. 1 Samuel 24:9 דָּוִד֙דָוִ֔ד

    and said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Look, David intends to harm you’?

  2. 1 Samuel 24:16 דָּוִ֗דדָוִ֑ד

    When David had finished saying these things, Saul called back, “Is that your voice, David my son?” Then Saul wept aloud

  3. 1 Samuel 24:17 דָּוִ֔ד

    and said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have rewarded me with good, though I have rewarded you with evil.

  4. 1 Samuel 24:22 דָּוִ֖דוְדָוִד֙

    So David gave his oath to Saul. Then Saul returned home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

  5. 1 Samuel 25:1 דָּוִ֔ד

    When Samuel died, all Israel gathered to mourn for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David set out and went down to the Wilderness of Paran.

  6. 1 Samuel 25:4 דָּוִ֖ד

    While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep.

  7. 1 Samuel 25:5 דָּוִ֖דדָּוִ֜ד

    So David sent ten young men and instructed them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel. Greet him in my name

  8. 1 Samuel 25:8 לְדָוִֽד׃

    Ask your young men, and they will tell you. So let my young men find favor with you, for we have come on the day of a feast. Please give whatever you can afford to your servants and to your son David.’”

  9. 1 Samuel 25:9 דָוִ֔דדָּוִ֑ד

    When David’s young men arrived, they relayed all these words to Nabal on behalf of David. Then they waited.

  10. 1 Samuel 25:10 דָוִד֙דָוִ֖ד

    But Nabal asked them, “Who is David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants these days are breaking away from their masters.

  11. 1 Samuel 25:12 דָוִ֖ד

    So David’s men turned around and went back, and they relayed to him all these words.

  12. 1 Samuel 25:13 דָּוִ֨דדָּוִ֖דדָוִ֗ד

    And David said to his men, “Strap on your swords!” So David and all his men put on their swords, and about four hundred men followed David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

  13. 1 Samuel 25:14 דָּוִ֨ד

    Meanwhile, one of Nabal’s young men informed Nabal’s wife Abigail, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he scolded them.

  14. 1 Samuel 25:20 דָוִד֙

    As Abigail came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, she saw David and his men coming down toward her, and she met them.

  15. 1 Samuel 25:21 וְדָוִ֣ד

    Now David had just finished saying, “In vain I have protected all that belonged to this man in the wilderness. Nothing that belongs to him has gone missing, yet he has paid me back evil for good.

  16. 1 Samuel 25:22 דָוִ֖ד

    May God punish David, and ever so severely, if I let one of Nabal’s men survive until morning.”

  17. 1 Samuel 25:23 דָּוִ֔דדָוִד֙

    When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey, fell facedown, and bowed before him.

  18. 1 Samuel 25:32 דָּוִ֖ד

    Then David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you to meet me this day!

  19. 1 Samuel 25:35 דָּוִד֙

    Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him, and he said to her, “Go home in peace. See, I have heeded your voice and granted your request.”

  20. 1 Samuel 25:39 דָּוִד֮דָּוִד֙

    On hearing that Nabal was dead, David said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has upheld my cause against the reproach of Nabal and has restrained His servant from evil. For the LORD has brought the wickedness of Nabal down upon his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, asking for her in marriage.

  21. 1 Samuel 25:40 דָוִ֛דדָּוִד֙

    When his servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said, “David has sent us to take you as his wife.”

  22. 1 Samuel 25:42 דָוִ֔ד

    So Abigail hurried and got on a donkey, and attended by five of her maidens, she followed David’s messengers and became his wife.

  23. 1 Samuel 25:43 דָּוִ֖ד

    David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel. So she and Abigail were both his wives.

  24. 1 Samuel 25:44 דָּוִ֑ד

    But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.

  25. 1 Samuel 26:1 דָוִ֤ד

    Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding on the hill of Hachilah, opposite Jeshimon?”

  26. 1 Samuel 26:2 דָּוִ֖ד

    So Saul, accompanied by three thousand chosen men of Israel, went down to the Wilderness of Ziph to search for David there.

  27. 1 Samuel 26:3 וְדָוִד֙

    Saul camped beside the road at the hill of Hachilah opposite Jeshimon, but David was living in the wilderness. When he realized that Saul had followed him there,

  28. 1 Samuel 26:4 דָּוִ֖ד

    David sent out spies to verify that Saul had arrived.

  29. 1 Samuel 26:5 דָּוִ֗דדָּוִ֗ד

    Then David set out and went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general of his army, had lain down. Saul was lying inside the inner circle of the camp, with the troops camped around him.

  30. 1 Samuel 26:6 דָּוִ֜ד

    And David asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, “Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?” “I will go with you,” answered Abishai.

  31. 1 Samuel 26:7 דָוִ֨ד

    That night David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the troops were lying around him.

  32. 1 Samuel 26:8 דָּוִ֔ד

    Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”

  33. 1 Samuel 26:9 דָּוִ֛ד

    But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can lift a hand against the LORD’s anointed and be guiltless?”

  34. 1 Samuel 26:10 דָּוִד֙

    David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.

  35. 1 Samuel 26:12 דָּוִ֨ד

    So David took the spear and water jug by Saul’s head, and they departed. No one saw them or knew about it, nor did anyone wake up; they all remained asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.

  36. 1 Samuel 26:13 דָּוִד֙

    Then David crossed to the other side and stood atop the mountain at a distance; there was a wide gulf between them.

  37. 1 Samuel 26:14 דָוִ֜ד

    And David shouted to the troops and to Abner son of Ner, “Will you not answer me, Abner?” “Who calls to the king?” Abner replied.

  38. 1 Samuel 26:15 דָּוִ֨ד

    So David said to Abner, “You are a man, aren’t you? And who in Israel is your equal? Why then did you not protect your lord the king when one of the people came to destroy him?

  39. 1 Samuel 26:17 דָּוִ֔דדָוִ֑דדָּוִ֔ד

    Then Saul recognized David’s voice and asked, “Is that your voice, David my son?” “It is my voice, my lord and king,” David said.

  40. 1 Samuel 26:21 דָוִ֗ד

    Then Saul replied, “I have sinned. Come back, David my son. I will never harm you again, because today you considered my life precious. I have played the fool and have committed a grave error!”

  41. 1 Samuel 26:22 דָּוִד֙

    “Here is the king’s spear,” David answered. “Let one of the young men come over and get it.

  42. 1 Samuel 26:25 דָּוִ֗דדָוִ֔דדָּוִד֙

    Saul said to him, “May you be blessed, David my son. You will accomplish great things and will surely prevail.” So David went on his way, and Saul returned home.

  43. 1 Samuel 27:1 דָּוִד֙

    David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”

  44. 1 Samuel 27:2 דָּוִ֔ד

    So David set out with his six hundred men and went to Achish son of Maoch, the king of Gath.

  45. 1 Samuel 27:3 דָּוִ֨דדָּוִד֙

    David and his men settled in Gath with Achish. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal.

  46. 1 Samuel 27:4 דָּוִ֖ד

    And when Saul learned that David had fled to Gath, he no longer searched for him.

  47. 1 Samuel 27:5 דָּוִ֜ד

    Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let me be assigned a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. For why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”

  48. 1 Samuel 27:7 דָּוִ֖ד

    And the time that David lived in Philistine territory amounted to a year and four months.

  49. 1 Samuel 27:8 דָּוִד֙

    Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)

  50. 1 Samuel 27:9 דָוִד֙

    Whenever David attacked a territory, he did not leave a man or woman alive, but he took the flocks and herds, the donkeys, camels, and clothing. Then he would return to Achish,

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