לֹא דְבַרLôʼ Dᵉbar
לֹא דְבָר: proper name [of a location]: in Gilead, near, perhaps east of, Mahanaim (2 Samuel 17:37; Amos 6:13; 2 Samuel 9:4; 2 Samuel 9:5; Joshua 13:26)
Pronunciation: lo deb-ar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3810
Meanings
לִדְבִר: proper name [of a location]: east of Jordan, in tribe of Gad (Joshua 13:26)
לוֺ דְבָר: proper name [of a location]: see לֹא דְבָר
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 8 times in the Bible.
- 2 Samuel 9:4 “Where is he?” the king asked. “In Lo-debar,” Ziba told him, “at the home of Makir son of Ammiel.”
- 2 Samuel 9:5 So David sent for him and brought him from Makir’s home.
- 2 Samuel 17:27 When David arrived at Mahanaim, he was warmly greeted by Shobi son of Nahash, who came from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and by Makir son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and by Barzillai of Gilead from Rogelim.
- Amos 6:13 And you brag about your conquest of Lo-debar. You boast, “Didn’t we take Karnaim by our own strength?”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).