'Word' in the Bible

And he could no longer answer Abner a word, because he was afraid of him.

But in the same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying,

Wherever I have gone with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, which I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’”’

For the sake of Your word, and according to Your own heart, You have done all this greatness to let Your servant know.

Now therefore, O Lord God, the word that You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house, confirm it forever, and do as You have spoken,

Why have you despised the word of the Lord by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

and sent word through Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah for the Lord’s sake.

Jonadab said to the king, “Behold, the king’s sons have come; according to your servant’s word, so it happened.”

Then the woman said, “Please let your maidservant speak a word to my lord the king.” And he said, “Speak.”

The woman said, “Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring back his banished one.

Now the reason I have come to speak this word to my lord the king is that the people have made me afraid; so your maidservant said, ‘Let me now speak to the king, perhaps the king will perform the request of his maidservant.

Then your maidservant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king be comforting, for as the angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and evil. And may the Lord your God be with you.’”

See, I am going to wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

The advice of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if one inquired of the word of God; so was all the advice of Ahithophel regarded by both David and Absalom.

Then King David sent to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house, since the word of all Israel has come to the king, even to his house?

Thus he turned the hearts of all the men of Judah as one man, so that they sent word to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.”

“As for God, His way is blameless;The word of the Lord is tested;He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

“The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me,And His word was on my tongue.

Nevertheless, the king’s word prevailed against Joab and against the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to register the people of Israel.

When David arose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,

David went up according to the word of Gad, just as the Lord had commanded.