david · David

What it means

david (דָּוִד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “David”.

Youngest son of Jesse, of Bethlehem; the second king of Israel. The name means "beloved."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Where it appears

• Ruth×2
• 1 Samuel×291
• 2 Samuel×285
• 1 Kings×78
• 2 Kings×18
• 1 Chronicles×187
• 2 Chronicles×74
• Ezra×3
• Nehemiah×8
• Psalms×88
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×10
• Jeremiah×15
• Ezekiel×4
• Hosea×1
• Amos×2
• Zechariah×6

• Ruth 4:17

  And the neighbor women gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” And they called his name Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.

• Ruth 4:22

  Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David.

• 1 Samuel 16:13

  Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the spirit of YHWH came mightily upon David from that day onward. Samuel rose and went to Ramah.

• 1 Samuel 16:19

  Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send to me David your son, who is with the flock.”

• 1 Samuel 16:20

  Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a skin of wine, and one young goat, and sent them by the hand of David his son to Saul.

• 1 Samuel 16:21

  David came to Saul and stood before him; and he loved him greatly, and he became one who carried his weapons.

• 1 Samuel 16:22

  Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Please let David stand before me, for he has found favor in my eyes.”

• 1 Samuel 16:23

  And it would happen, whenever the spirit of Elohim was upon Saul, that David would take the lyre and play with his hand; and there would be relief for Saul and it would be well with him, and the evil spirit would depart from him.

• 1 Samuel 17:12

  Now David was the son of that Ephrathite man from Bethlehem of Judah, whose name was Jesse, and he had eight sons; and the man in the days of Saul was old, advanced in years among men.

• 1 Samuel 17:14

  David was the youngest, and the three oldest had gone after Saul.

• 1 Samuel 17:15

  And David was going and returning from beside Saul to pasture his father’s flock at Bethlehem.

• 1 Samuel 17:17

  Jesse said to David his son, “Take, please, for your brothers this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves, and hurry them to the camp to your brothers.

• 1 Samuel 17:20

  David rose early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up and went, as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the encampment as the army that was going out to the battle line was shouting for war.

• 1 Samuel 17:22

  David left the baggage that was on him in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the battle line, and came and asked his brothers about their welfare.

• 1 Samuel 17:23

  As he was speaking with them, look, the champion was coming up —Goliath the Philistine was his name, of Gath— from the battle lines of the Philistines, and he spoke according to these words; and David heard.

• 1 Samuel 17:26

  David said to the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who strikes that Philistine and removes the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should reproach the battle lines of the living Elohim?”

• 1 Samuel 17:28

  Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men, and the anger of Eliab burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left that little flock in the wilderness? I know your arrogance and the evil of your heart: for in order to see the war you have come down.”

• 1 Samuel 17:29

  David said, “What have I done now? Is it not just a word?”

• 1 Samuel 17:31

  The words that David had spoken were heard, and they told them before Saul; and he took him.

• 1 Samuel 17:32

  David said to Saul, “Let not the heart of anyone fall because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”

• 1 Samuel 17:33

  Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you are a young man, and he is a man of war from his youth.”

• 1 Samuel 17:34

  David said to Saul, “Your servant used to be a shepherd for his father with the flock; and when the lion came, or the bear, and carried off a lamb from the drove,

• 1 Samuel 17:37

  David said, “YHWH, who delivered me from the hand of the lion and from the hand of the bear, he will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and may YHWH be with you.”

• 1 Samuel 17:38

  Saul clothed David with his garment, and put a helmet of bronze on his head, and clothed him with a coat of armor.

• 1 Samuel 17:39

  David fastened his sword over his garment and tried to walk, for he had not tested it. And David said to Saul, “I cannot walk in these, for I have not tested them.” And David removed them from himself.

• 1 Samuel 17:41

  The Philistine came, going on and drawing near to David, and the man who carried the shield was before him.

• 1 Samuel 17:42

  The Philistine looked and saw David, and he despised him, for he was a young man, and ruddy, with a beautiful appearance.

• 1 Samuel 17:43

  The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with staffs?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

• 1 Samuel 17:44

  The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky and to the beasts of the field.”

• 1 Samuel 17:45

  David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with sword and with spear and with javelin; but I come to you in the name of YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of the battle lines of Israel, whom you have reproached.

• 1 Samuel 17:48

  And it came about, when the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, that David hurried and ran to the battle line to meet the Philistine.

• 1 Samuel 17:49

  David stretched out his hand to the bag and took from there a stone and slung it and struck the Philistine on his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.

• 1 Samuel 17:50

  David prevailed over the Philistine with the sling and with the stone, and struck the Philistine and put him to death; and there was no sword in the hand of David.

• 1 Samuel 17:51

  David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it from its sheath and put him to death and cut off with it his head. The Philistines saw that their mighty man was dead, and they fled.

• 1 Samuel 17:54

  David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, and his weapons he put in his tent.

• 1 Samuel 17:55

  When Saul saw David going out to meet the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, “Whose son is this young man, Abner?” And Abner said, “As your soul lives, O king, I do not know.”

• 1 Samuel 17:57

  When David returned from striking the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul, with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

• 1 Samuel 17:58

  Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” And David said, “The son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”

• 1 Samuel 18:1

  And it came about, when he had finished speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was bound to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

• 1 Samuel 18:3

  Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

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