What is the Strong's number for Dabar?

The Strong's number for Dabar (דָּבָר) is H1697. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Dabar (Strong’s H1697): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Dabar mean?

Dabar (דָּבָר, Strong's H1697) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause. The King James Bible translates it as act, advice, affair, answer, × any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, chronicles, commandment, × commune(-ication), concern(-ing), confer, counsel, dearth, decree, deed, × disease, due, duty, effect, eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-) ness, glory, harm, hurt, iniquity, judgment, language, lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, × ought, × parts, pertaining, please, portion, power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, × (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, sign, so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, song, speech, × spoken, talk, task, that, × there done, thing (concerning), thought, thus, tidings, what(-soever), wherewith, which, word, work.

Dabar (דָּבָר) is the Hebrew word numbered H1697 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause. In the King James Bible it is translated act, advice, affair, answer, because of.

דָּבָר

dâbâr · Hebrew

Strong’s H1697 · daw-baw'

Original wordדָּבָר
Transliterationdâbâr
Pronunciationdaw-baw'
Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
Strong’s numberH1697
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause

Derivation. from H1696;

How the King James Bible translates it

act, advice, affair, answer, × any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, chronicles, commandment, × commune(-ication), concern(-ing), confer, counsel, dearth, decree, deed, × disease, due, duty, effect, eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-) ness, glory, harm, hurt, iniquity, judgment, language, lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, × ought, × parts, pertaining, please, portion, power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, × (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, sign, so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, song, speech, × spoken, talk, task, that, × there done, thing (concerning), thought, thus, tidings, what(-soever), wherewith, which, word, work. (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Where Dabar appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Dabar (H1697) stands behind 1,425 English renderings in 1,279 verses across 34 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Jeremiah (203), 1 Kings (124), 2 Kings (108).

How the King James Bible renders Dabar, by count

word433 of 1,425 (30 percent)
words372 of 1,425 (26 percent)
thing182 of 1,425 (13 percent)
acts51 of 1,425 (4 percent)
things49 of 1,425 (3 percent)
matter48 of 1,425 (3 percent)

Three places to read Dabar

Genesis 11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
1 Kings 3:11 And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;
Proverbs 12:6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Dabar in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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