'Conversation' in the Bible

Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no man know about this conversation and you will not die.

Then all the princes (court officials) came to Jeremiah and asked him [just what King Zedekiah had anticipated they would ask], and he reported to them in accordance with all that the king had commanded. So they stopped questioning him, since the conversation [with the king] had not been overheard.