There are a considerable number of instances in which the Personal Word appears to be designated by the phrase _Dabar_ Jehovah, translated the _Word_ of the Lord. The "_Dabar_ Jehovah _came_ unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, _I am thy shield_, &c. And Abram said, Adonai Jehovah, what will thou give me?... And behold Dabar Jehovah (came) unto him, saying." (The word CAME in this clause is not in the original. "Dabar Jehovah said unto him," would perhaps be more correct.) "And he [Dabar Jehovah] brought, him forth abroad and said, Look now towards heaven.... And he believed in Jehovah," (in the Word Jehovah, _Chaldee Par._) Gen. xv. Here personal acts appear to be ascribed to _Dabar_--the Word. It was a person who conversed with Abram and brought him forth abroad; as is observed on a subsequent occasion. "_Dabar_ Jehovah came to Jacob, saying, Israel shall be thy name." 1 Kings xviii. 31. But in Gen. xxxii. we read that "there wrestled a man with Jacob, and he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel." Here, then, the visible person who, in the form of man, wrestled with Jacob, and who is, by Hosea, chap. xii., denominated the Messenger and the Jehovah Zebaoth, is called _Dabar_ Jehovah, the Personal Word. "Now Dabar Jehovah came unto Jonah, ... saying, [or, and said,] Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it, for their wickedness is come up before me. But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from _the presence of_ Jehovah, and he found a ship and went down into it to go unto Tarshish _from the presence of_ Jehovah." Chap. i. "And Dabar Jehovah came unto Jonah the second time, saying, Arise, go unto Nineveh." iii. 1, 2. These passages indicate a personal and visible presence. How else could Jonah attempt to conceal himself by flight? In the context the Personal Word who thus came is identified with Jehovah, who speaks and is addressed as one locally and visibly present.