Words the Bible translates as promise
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 9 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- amarאָמַרto say: to speak words, and so to think them or to declare them
- davarדָּבָרa word, or the matter that word is about: anything said, and equally the affair, event, or thing being spoken of
- davarדָבַרto speak: to put thought into words and aim them at a hearer
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- to subdue: to bring peoples under someone's rule
- epangeliaἐπαγγελίαa promise: a binding pledge to do something, above all God's pledge to his people, and by extension the very thing he has pledged to give.
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- an agreement or consent: a person's word that they will go along with a plan.
- homologeōὁμολογέωto promise: to bind oneself by a stated pledge to do something
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- to confess or profess: to declare openly and on the record where one stands, owning allegiance to a person or affirming a truth as one's own before others
- to acknowledge or admit: to grant that something is true, whether a fact one concedes or a wrong one owns up to
- to praise: to give God thanks out loud, openly acknowledging his name in worship
- imrahאִמְרָהa spoken word: an utterance, saying, or promise, most often God's.
- nadarנָדַרto make a binding promise to God: to pledge a gift, an act, or a person to the deity, usually in return for help
- epangellōἐπαγγέλλωto promise: to declare, with a commitment that binds the speaker, that one will give or do something
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- to profess: to lay public claim to a quality, skill, or knowledge, presenting oneself as having it
- proepangellōπροεπαγγέλλωto promisenot studied yet
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