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title: דִּבֵּר — speaking · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דִּבֵּר (lemma:דִּבֵּר), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: speaking. BDB 1906: speaking Pi. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דִּבֵּר

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«דִּבֵּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **speaking** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:דִּבֵּר · **BDB:** דִּבֵּר

### Glosses

word (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דִּבֵּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b4_5bc_5d1_5b5_5bc_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.'

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