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# דִּבֵּר

Biblical Hebrew

**speaking** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

speaking [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b4_5bc_5d1_5b5_5bc_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דִּבֵּר: speaking Pi. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b4_5bc_5d1_5b5_5bc_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] speaking (so Ew§ 156) Je 5:13 וְהַדִּבֵּר אֵין בָּהֶם; according to Hi Gf Ki (less prob.) vb. with art. for relat. (vid. \[דָּבַר\] Pi.): but read rather הַדָּבָר, and the word is not in them.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 5:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.13/#tree)

וְהַנְּבִיאִים֙ יִֽהְי֣וּ לְר֔וּחַ וְהַדִּבֵּ֖ר אֵ֣ין בָּהֶ֑ם כֹּ֥ה יֵעָשֶׂ֖ה לָהֶֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* and the prophets they.will.become (into) wind and the word not \[is\].in them thus let.it.be.done to them

*JPS 1917:* And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them; thus be it done unto them.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d3_5b4_5bc_5d1_5b5_5bc_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b4_5bc_5d1_5b5_5bc_5e8/): 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).