{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H1696",
  "lemma": "דָבַר",
  "transliteration": "dâbar",
  "definition": "perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue",
  "kjv": "answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise…",
  "occurrences": 1143,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[דָבַר] 1142 vb. speak (original mng. dub.)",
    "Qal speak",
    "Niph. reciprocal sense, speak with one another, talk",
    "Pi. speak",
    "Pu. in the day when she may be spoken for",
    "Hithp. speaking this word",
    "Hiph. either leads subject, or puts to flight, fig. for subdues"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 8:15",
      "text": "God spoke to Noah, saying,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 12:4",
      "text": "So Abram went, as the LORD had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 16:13",
      "text": "She called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 17:3",
      "text": "Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 17:22",
      "text": "When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 17:23",
      "text": "Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money: every male among…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 18:5",
      "text": "I will get a piece of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 18:19",
      "text": "For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 18:27",
      "text": "Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 18:29",
      "text": "He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty found there?” He said, “I will not do it for the forty’s…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=29"
    }
  ],
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