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Strong H1696H1696Gדָבַר

to speak: speak

One of the 3 senses of Strong H1696

Transliteration
dâbar
Pronunciation
daw-bar'
Morphology
Hebrew Verb

Definition

: speak/tell/command
1) to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing
1a) (Qal) to speak
1b) (Niphal) to speak with one another, talk
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to speak
1c2) to promise
1d) (Pual) to be spoken
1e) (Hithpael) to speak
1f) (Hiphil) to lead away, put to flight

General definition

A primitive root; perhaps properly to arrange; but used figuratively (of words) to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue: - {answer} {appoint} {bid} {command} {commune} {declare} {destroy} {give} {name} {promise} {pronounce} {rehearse} {say} {speak} be {spokesman} {subdue} {talk} {teach} {tell} {think} use {[entreaties]} {utter} X {well} X work.

In the Bible

Strong H1696G appears in 966 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • spake303
  • speak297
  • spoken139
  • say101
  • talk43
  • tell23
  • commune20
  • speaketh20
  • thou17
  • saith7
  • command4
  • utter4

First verses

  1. Genesis 8:15
    And God spake unto Noah, saying,
  2. Genesis 12:4
    So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
  3. Genesis 16:13
    And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?
  4. Genesis 17:3
    And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
  5. Genesis 17:22
    And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
  6. Genesis 17:23
    And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
  7. Genesis 18:5
    And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
  8. Genesis 18:27
    And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
  9. Genesis 18:29
    And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty’s sake.
  10. Genesis 18:30
    And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
  11. Genesis 18:31
    And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.
  12. Genesis 18:32
    And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.
  13. Genesis 18:33
    And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
  14. Genesis 19:14
    And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
  15. Genesis 19:21
    And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
  16. Genesis 20:8
    Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.
  17. Genesis 21:2
    For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
  18. Genesis 23:3
    And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
  19. Genesis 23:8
    And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
  20. Genesis 23:13
    And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.
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