Strong's Concordance H1697

Original Word: דָּבָר
Transliteration: dâbâr
Phonetic Spelling: daw-baw'
from H1696; a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause; 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.

Usages throughout the bible

2 Samuel 18:5 - And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning H1697 Absalom.

2 Samuel 18:13 - Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter H1697 hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me.

2 Samuel 19:11 - And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech H1697 of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.

2 Samuel 19:29 - And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? H1697 I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.

2 Samuel 19:42 - And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? H1697 have we eaten at all of the king's cost? or hath he given us any gift?

2 Samuel 19:43 - And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice H1697 should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words H1697 of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words H1697 of the men of Israel.

2 Samuel 20:17 - And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear the words H1697 of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.

2 Samuel 20:21 - The matter H1697 is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.

2 Samuel 22:1 - And David spake unto the LORD the words H1697 of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:

2 Samuel 23:1 - Now these be the last words H1697 of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,

2 Samuel 24:3 - And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing? H1697

2 Samuel 24:4 - Notwithstanding the king's word H1697 prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.

2 Samuel 24:11 - For when David was up in the morning, the word H1697 of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

2 Samuel 24:13 - So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer H1697 I shall return to him that sent me.

2 Samuel 24:19 - And David, according to the saying H1697 of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded.

1 Kings 1:7 - And he conferred H1697 with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.

1 Kings 1:14 - Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words. H1697

1 Kings 1:27 - Is this thing H1697 done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

1 Kings 2:4 - That the LORD may continue his word H1697 which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

1 Kings 2:14 - He said moreover, I have somewhat to say H1697 unto thee. And she said, Say on.

1 Kings 2:23 - Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word H1697 against his own life.

1 Kings 2:27 - So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD; that he might fulfil the word H1697 of the LORD, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

1 Kings 2:30 - And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word H1697 again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.

1 Kings 2:38 - And Shimei said unto the king, The saying H1697 is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.

1 Kings 2:42 - And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word H1697 that I have heard is good.

1 Kings 3:10 - And the speech H1697 pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. H1697

1 Kings 3:11 - And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, H1697 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;

1 Kings 3:12 - Behold, I have done according to thy words: H1697 lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.

1 Kings 4:27 - And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing. H1697

1 Kings 5:7 - And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words H1697 of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.

1 Kings 6:11 - And the word H1697 of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,

1 Kings 6:12 - Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word H1697 with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:

1 Kings 6:38 - And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts H1697 thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.

1 Kings 8:20 - And the LORD hath performed his word H1697 that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

1 Kings 8:26 - And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, H1697 I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.

1 Kings 8:56 - Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word H1697 of all his good promise, H1697 which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.

1 Kings 8:59 - And let these my words, H1697 wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter H1697 shall require:

1 Kings 9:15 - And this is the reason H1697 of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

1 Kings 10:3 - And Solomon told her all her questions: H1697 there was not any thing H1697 hid from the king, which he told her not.

1 Kings 10:6 - And she said to the king, It was a true report H1697 that I heard in mine own land of thy acts H1697 and of thy wisdom.

1 Kings 10:7 - Howbeit I believed not the words, H1697 until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.

1 Kings 10:25 - And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate H1697 year by year.

1 Kings 11:10 - And had commanded him concerning this thing, H1697 that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.

1 Kings 11:27 - And this was the cause H1697 that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.

1 Kings 11:41 - And the rest of the acts H1697 of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts H1697 of Solomon?

1 Kings 12:6 - And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer H1697 this people?

1 Kings 12:7 - And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words H1697 to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.

1 Kings 12:9 - And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer H1697 this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?

1 Kings 12:15 - Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, H1697 which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

1 Kings 12:16 - So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered H1697 the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.