# H1696 דָבַר

דָבַר (dâbar), Strong’s H1696: perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue KJV: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune…

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*dâbar* — 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…

Occurs 1143 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 8:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=15) — God spoke to Noah, saying,
- [Genesis 12:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=4) — So Abram went, as the LORD had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from…
- [Genesis 16:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=13) — 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…
- [Genesis 17:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=3) — Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,
- [Genesis 17:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=22) — When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
- [Genesis 17:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=23) — Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money: every male among…
- [Genesis 18:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=5) — 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…
- [Genesis 18:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=19) — For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the…
- [Genesis 18:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=27) — Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.
- [Genesis 18:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=29) — 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…