Dabar (Hebrew: used in the Hebrew Bible in referece to the "Divine Word". Ha-Dabar Elohim "The Word of God" is used in the Christian sense as refering to Christ. See Logos. Elohim (אלהים) is a Hebrew word related to deity, but whose exact significance is often disputed. ... The term Christian means belonging to Christ and is derived from the Greek noun Χριστός Khristós which means anointed one, which is itself a translation of the Hebrew word Moshiach (Hebrew: משיח, also written Messiah), (and in Arabic it is pronounced Maseeh مسيح). ... Christ, from the Greek in english known as Χριστός, or Khristós, means anointed, and is equivalent to the Hebrew term Messiah. ... The Greek λόγος or logos means word. Logos was used by Heraclitus, one of the more eminent Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, to describe human knowledge and the inherent order in the universe, a background to the essential change which characterizes day-to-day life. ...
The dabar was usually an encounter with the Spiritual realm wherein, the one to whom it came, received it in the form of a dream or vision.
The importance of understanding the dabar as encounter with the Spiritual realm is to be underscored.
It is through encounter with the dabar, the word of the Lord, that God speaks to man, and that we are empowered by the Spirit to become God's victorious people on the earth and to walk in deliverance from our spiritual oppressor, sin.
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