H1697

• {"n":"davar","s":"Word, thing, matter, event. Speech and the thing spoken are one noun.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=davar","r":"Genesis 15:1","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Versions read word, thing, matter, or event according to context."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**That's the thing.** **He gave his word.** English uses thing and word in ways that almost touch, and then keeps them apart."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Davar covers an utterance and also a matter or affair. The Ten Commandments are the ten devarim, the ten words. A word of the LORD is not merely speech about an event; the categories are not separated."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English split speech from substance, so the Hebrew idea has to be argued rather than heard."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a language uses one word for a statement and for the state of affairs it describes, that is a claim about how speech works and it is built into the vocabulary."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Word is the majority rendering; thing and matter appear where word would be nonsense."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05d3\u05b8\u05bc\u05d1\u05b8\u05e8 davar \u00b7 H1697"}],"src":["the ten devarim: Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 4:13","davar as matter: Genesis 21:11; 1 Samuel 10:16","the word of the LORD: Genesis 15:1; Jeremiah 1:2"]}