דָּבָר davar

Hebrew word for “word” · Strong’s H1697 · used 1,441 times in 1,289 verses

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Meaning

: word/speech/command;

Senses in the lexicon

• word (879)
• word: thing (295)
• word: deed (75)
• Chronicles (60)
• word: speaking (41)
• word: because (33)
• word: case (26)
• word: promised (24)
• word: portion (8)

How it is translated

Glosses given for davar in context, with how often each is used:

• word 582
• words 415
• matter 125
• thing 106
• matters 98
• things 39
• anything 37
• manner 17
• like the thing 3
• ¿ a word 2
• business 2
• something 2

Where it is used

Also in 22 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Psalms 119 (23), Jeremiah 36 (16), 1 Kings 13 (13), 2 Samuel 14 (10), Exodus 18 (9), Deuteronomy 1 (9), Deuteronomy 4 (9), 1 Kings 17 (9), Jeremiah 23 (9), Jeremiah 26 (9)

Forms

• דבר 442
• דברי 291
• הדבר 220
• הדברים 133
• כדבר 63
• בדבר 35
• דברים 26
• דברו 24
• ודבר 24
• דבריו 21

Words used with it

Words that share verses with davar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• דָבַר davar “to speak” 227
• זֶה zeh “this” 211
• שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 211
• אֵלֶּה elleh “these” 126
• כָּתַב katav “to write” 93
• סֵפֶר sepher “scroll” 82
• יִרְמְיָהוּ yirmeyah “Jeremiah” 69
• יְהוּדָה yehudah “Judah” 103
• נָבִיא navi “prophet” 75
• עֶבֶד eved “servant/slave” 86
• שׁוּב shuv “to return” 83
• פֶּה peh “lip” 65

Key verses

The verses using davar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 15:1 — After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
• Deuteronomy 4:9 — Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the…
• 1 Kings 17:1 — And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew…
• 1 Kings 18:36 — And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of…
• 2 Chronicles 36:16 — But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was…
• Psalms 22:1 — [To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.] My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the…
• Isaiah 8:20 — To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
• Isaiah 66:2 — For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a…
• Jeremiah 18:18 — Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from…
• Jeremiah 32:17 — Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
• Ezekiel 33:31 — And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth…
• Zechariah 1:6 — But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.