דָבַר dâbar

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, [idiom] well, [idiom] work.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Psalms 34:13 Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.
• Psalms 35:20 For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.
• Psalms 37:30 The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
• Psalms 38:12 Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
• Psalms 39:3 My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
• Psalms 40:5 Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us—none can compare to You—if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.
• Psalms 41:6 My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.
• Psalms 47:3 He subdues nations beneath us, and peoples under our feet.
• Psalms 49:3 My mouth will impart wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will bring understanding.
• Psalms 50:1 A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.
• Psalms 50:7 “Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.
• Psalms 50:20 You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
• Psalms 51:4 Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.
• Psalms 52:3 You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah
• Psalms 58:1 For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David. Do you indeed speak justly, O rulers? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?
• Psalms 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
• Psalms 60:6 God has spoken from His sanctuary: “I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem and apportion the Valley of Succoth.
• Psalms 62:11 God has spoken once; I have heard this twice: that power belongs to God,
• Psalms 63:11 But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by Him will exult, for the mouths of liars will be shut.
• Psalms 66:14 the vows that my lips promised and my mouth spoke in my distress.
• Psalms 73:8 They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.
• Psalms 75:5 Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.’”
• Psalms 77:4 You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.
• Psalms 78:19 They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?
• Psalms 85:8 I will listen to what God the LORD will say; for He will surely speak peace to His people and His saints; He will not let them return to folly.
• Psalms 87:3 Glorious things are ascribed to you, O city of God. Selah
• Psalms 89:19 You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.
• Psalms 94:4 They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.
• Psalms 99:7 He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.
• Psalms 101:7 No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who tells lies shall stand in my presence.
• Psalms 108:7 God has spoken from His sanctuary: “I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem and apportion the Valley of Succoth.
• Psalms 109:2 For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.
• Psalms 109:20 May this be the LORD’s reward to my accusers, to those who speak evil against me.
• Psalms 115:5 They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;
• Psalms 116:10 I believed, therefore I said, “I am greatly afflicted.”
• Psalms 119:23 Though rulers sit and slander me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.
• Psalms 119:46 I will speak of Your testimonies before kings, and I will not be ashamed.
• Psalms 120:7 I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war.
• Psalms 122:8 For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, “Peace be within you.”
• Psalms 127:5 Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts the enemies at the gate.
• Psalms 135:16 They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;
• Psalms 144:8 whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
• Psalms 144:11 Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
• Psalms 145:11 They will tell of the glory of Your kingdom and speak of Your might,
• Psalms 145:21 My mouth will declare the praise of the LORD; let every creature bless His holy name forever and ever.
• Proverbs 2:12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,
• Proverbs 8:6 Listen, for I speak of noble things, and the opening of my lips will reveal right.
• Proverbs 16:13 Righteous lips are a king’s delight, and he who speaks honestly is beloved.
• Proverbs 18:23 The poor man pleads for mercy, but the rich man answers harshly.
• Proverbs 21:28 A lying witness will perish, but the man who listens to truth will speak forever.
• Proverbs 23:9 Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
• Proverbs 23:16 My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
• Proverbs 23:33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
• Proverbs 24:2 for their hearts devise violence, and their lips declare trouble.
• Proverbs 25:11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
• Ecclesiastes 1:8 All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
• Ecclesiastes 1:16 I said to myself, “Behold, I have grown and increased in wisdom beyond all those before me who were over Jerusalem, and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge.”
• Ecclesiastes 2:15 So I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise?” And I said to myself that this too is futile.
• Ecclesiastes 3:7 a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
• Ecclesiastes 7:21 Do not pay attention to every word that is spoken, or you may hear your servant cursing you.