Dabar

This article is about the Hebrew word. For other uses, see Dabar (disambiguation).
A Hebrew Bible page (Aleppo Codex), 10th century.

The word dabar means "word" or "talk" in Hebrew.[1] [2] Dabar occurs in various contexts in the Hebrew Bible.

In the Hebrew Bible, dabar is sometimes used in reference to the "Divine Word", and in an active sense as a "word event", or prophetic words.[3]

In Christianity, the Old Testament concept of "word event" represented by dabar carries over to the New Testament where revelation can be seen as events explained by words.[4] Hence in the New Testament the word dabar continues to be more than a mere sound, or a doctrine, but refers to people and actions, reaching its climax in the Incarnation of Jesus.[5]

The Septuagint, the oldest translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek uses the terms Rhema and Logos as equivalents and uses both for dabar.[6][7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ancient World: Reader by Ralph D. Winter 2006 ISBN 0-87808-557-2 page 185
  2. ↑ The etymology and syntax: (in continuation of the elements) of the Hebrew Language by Hyman Hurwitz 1841 ASIN B0008AHQPO page 13
  3. ↑ Old Testament Theology by Horst Dietrich Preuss, Leo G. Perdue 1996 ISBN 0-664-21843-1 page 81
  4. ↑ Christian tradition today by Jeffrey C. K. Goh 2004 ISBN 90-429-0937-4 page 303
  5. ↑ Christian theological understanding of other religions by John Berchmans Barla 1999 ISBN 88-7652-819-9 page 76
  6. ↑ Theological dictionary of the New Testament, Volume 1 by Gerhard Kittel, Gerhard Friedrich, Geoffrey William Bromiley 1985 ISBN 0-8028-2404-8 page 508
  7. ↑ The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Q-Z by Geoffrey W. Bromiley 1995 ISBN 0-8028-3784-0 page 1102
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