[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%93%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%94/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [ד](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/dalet/)‎ / דִּבְרָה‎

# דִּבְרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1700

**cause** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cause [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1700/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דִּבְרָה: n.f. cause, reason, manner [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1700/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. cause, reason, manner—cstr. עַל דִּבְרַת because of, for the sake of Ec 3:18; 7:14; 8:2; עַל־דִּבְרָתִי מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק after the order, or manner, of Melchizedek ψ 110:4 (י ancient genit. ending, to soften transition in poetry, Ges§ 90 (3) a); sf. דִּבְרָתִי my cause, suit Jb 5:8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the cause (2); cause (1); plea (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 8:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.8.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.8.2/#tree)

אֲנִי֙ פִּי־מֶ֣לֶךְ שְׁמ֔וֹר וְעַ֕ל דִּבְרַ֖ת שְׁבוּעַ֥ת אֱלֹהִֽים׃

*Word for word:* I \[the\].mouth of.a.king keep and on the.cause of.the.oath of.God

*JPS 1917:* I counsel thee: keep the king's command, and that in regard of the oath of God.

[Job 5:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.8/#tree)

אוּלָ֗ם אֲ֭נִי אֶדְרֹ֣שׁ אֶל־אֵ֑ל וְאֶל־אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים אָשִׂ֥ים דִּבְרָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* but I I.will.seek (to) God and to God I.will.set plea my

*JPS 1917:* But as for me, I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1700.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1700/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).