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Exodus 33:11

“And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

דָבַרdâbar · daw-bar'
H1696 · Hebrew

Definition: perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV renderings: 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.
Grammar: וְ — conjunction
דִבֶּ֨ר — verb Piel, sequential perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
Code HC/Vpq3ms
Usage: Occurs 1,144 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 8:15 Genesis 12:4 Genesis 16:13 Genesis 17:3 Genesis 17:22

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read דָבַר here.

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.