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ORIGINAL WORD · STRONG’S

דָבַר

H1696 · dâbar · daw-bar' · Hebrew

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Strong’s definition

perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue

KJV usage

answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, × well, × work.

1,142mapped occurrences
1,049verses
67KJV renderings
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KJV renderings in this mapping

spake 314speak 221spoken 173said 84Speak 53speaking 36talked 29promised 29say 25speaketh 22told 14communed 14pronounced 13speakest 11talk 10spakest 8saith 7on 5tell 5utter 5commanded 4talking 3commune 3gave 3communing 2talkest 2Tell 2promisedst 2bid 2telleth 2word 2taught 2named 1badest 1not 1well 1spokesman 1saidst 1thought 1declared 1Told 1Spake 1out 1declare 1that 1uttered 1pronounce 1Talk 1rehearsed 1Commune 1telling 1wont 1appointed 1bade 1answered 1destroyed 1published 1subdueth 1talketh 1subdue 1useth 1for 1give 1aright 1Say 1uttereth 1often 1

Strong’s is a useful concordance and lexical reference layer. It does not by itself determine the meaning of a word in every context and is not a substitute for the verse, passage, or full grammatical analysis. Hebrew / Aramaic XML data: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0).

Mapped occurrences

Genesis 8:15Mapped KJV word: spake

And God spake unto Noah, saying,

Genesis 12:4Mapped KJV word: spoken

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.

Genesis 16:13Mapped KJV word: spake

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?

Genesis 17:3Mapped KJV word: talked

And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,

Genesis 17:22Mapped KJV word: talking

And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

Genesis 17:23Mapped KJV word: said

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.

Genesis 18:5Mapped KJV word: said

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.

Genesis 18:19Mapped KJV word: spoken

For 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 18:27Mapped KJV word: speak

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

Genesis 18:29Mapped KJV word: spake

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.

Genesis 18:30Mapped KJV word: speak

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.

Genesis 18:31Mapped KJV word: speak

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.

Genesis 18:32Mapped KJV word: speak

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.

Genesis 18:33Mapped KJV word: communing

And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

Genesis 19:14Mapped KJV word: spake

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.

Genesis 19:21Mapped KJV word: spoken

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.

Genesis 20:8Mapped KJV word: told

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.

Genesis 21:1Mapped KJV word: spoken

And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

Genesis 21:2Mapped KJV word: spoken

For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

Genesis 23:3Mapped KJV word: spake

And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,

Genesis 23:8Mapped KJV word: communed

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,

Genesis 23:13Mapped KJV word: spake

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.

Genesis 23:16Mapped KJV word: named

And 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 24:7Mapped KJV word: spake

The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.

Genesis 24:15Mapped KJV word: speaking

And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

Genesis 24:30Mapped KJV word: spake

And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

Genesis 24:33Mapped KJV word: told

And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.

Genesis 24:33Mapped KJV word: on

And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.

Genesis 24:45Mapped KJV word: speaking

And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.

Genesis 24:50Mapped KJV word: speak

Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

Genesis 24:51Mapped KJV word: spoken

Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.

Genesis 27:5Mapped KJV word: spake

And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

Genesis 27:6Mapped KJV word: speak

And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,

Genesis 27:19Mapped KJV word: badest

And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

Genesis 28:15Mapped KJV word: spoken

And, 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.

Genesis 29:9Mapped KJV word: spake

And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them.

Genesis 31:24Mapped KJV word: speak

And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

Genesis 31:29Mapped KJV word: not

It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

Genesis 32:19Mapped KJV word: speak

And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.

Genesis 34:3Mapped KJV word: spake

And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.

Genesis 34:6Mapped KJV word: commune

And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.

Genesis 34:8Mapped KJV word: communed

And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.

Genesis 34:13Mapped KJV word: said

And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:

Genesis 34:20Mapped KJV word: communed

And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,

Genesis 35:13Mapped KJV word: talked

And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.

Genesis 35:14Mapped KJV word: talked

And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.

Genesis 35:15Mapped KJV word: spake

And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.

Genesis 37:4Mapped KJV word: speak

And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

Genesis 39:10Mapped KJV word: spake

And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

Genesis 39:17Mapped KJV word: spake

And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me: