Strong H1696H1696Iדָבַר
to speak: promise
One of the 3 senses of Strong H1696
- Transliteration
- dâbar
- Pronunciation
- daw-bar'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
: promise/declare
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
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 H1696I appears in 77 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- promise21
- spoken16
- pronounce9
- say7
- speak6
- promised5
- spake4
- thou4
- give3
- utter2
- declare1
- named1
First verses
- Genesis 18:19For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
- Genesis 21:1And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
- Genesis 23:16And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
- Genesis 28:15And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
- Exodus 12:25And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the Lord will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
- Leviticus 23:44And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the Lord.
- Numbers 10:29And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses’ father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the Lord said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel.
- Numbers 14:17And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
- Deuteronomy 1:11(The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
- Deuteronomy 6:3Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
- Deuteronomy 6:19To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.
- Deuteronomy 9:3Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath said unto thee.
- Deuteronomy 9:28Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
- Deuteronomy 11:25There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the Lord your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
- Deuteronomy 12:20When the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
- Deuteronomy 15:6For the Lord thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
- Deuteronomy 18:2Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
- Deuteronomy 19:8And if the Lord thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;
- Deuteronomy 23:23That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the Lord thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
- Deuteronomy 26:18And the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;