Strong's #559: 'amar (pronounced aw-mar')
a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude):--answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
'âmar
1) to say, speak, utter
1a) (Qal) to say, to answer, to say in one' s heart, to think, to command, to promise, to intend
1b) (Niphal) to be told, to be said, to be called
1c) (Hithpael) to boast, to act proudly
1d) (Hiphil) to avow, to avouch
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 5308 times:
Genesis 39:14: "of her house, and spoke unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in a Hebrew"
Genesis 39:17: "him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought"
Genesis 39:19: "which she spoke unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant"
Genesis 40:7: "him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly today?"
Genesis 40:8: " And they said him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said"
Genesis 40:8: "and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God?"
Genesis 40:9: "his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before"
Genesis 40:12: "And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:"
Genesis 40:16: "that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also"
Genesis 40:18: "And Joseph and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three"
Genesis 41:9: "butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults"
Genesis 41:15: "And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret"
Genesis 41:15: "that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret"
Genesis 41:16: "Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer"
Genesis 41:24: "the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare"
Genesis 41:25: "And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God"
Genesis 41:38: "And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom"
Genesis 41:39: "And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath showed thee"
Genesis 41:41: "And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all"
Genesis 41:44: "And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no"
Genesis 41:54: "to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands;"
Genesis 41:55: "Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto"
Genesis 41:55: "unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do."
Genesis 42:1: "corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?"
Genesis 42:2: " And he said, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down"
Genesis 42:4: "with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall"
Genesis 42:7: "unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan"
Genesis 42:7: "them, and spoke roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come"
Genesis 42:9: "the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see"
Genesis 42:10: " And they said him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come."
Genesis 42:12: " And he said them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come."
Genesis 42:13: " And they said, are twelve brethren, the sons of one man"
Genesis 42:14: "And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spoke unto you, saying,"
Genesis 42:14: "is it that I spoke unto you, saying, Ye are spies:"
Genesis 42:18: "And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live;"
Genesis 42:21: " And they said to another, We are verily guilty concerning"
Genesis 42:22: "And Reuben them, saying, Spoke I not unto you, saying, Do not"
Genesis 42:22: "And Reuben them, saying, Spoke I not unto you, saying, Do not"
Genesis 42:22: "Spoke I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not"
Genesis 42:28: " And he said his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack:"
Genesis 42:28: "and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What"
Genesis 42:29: "him all that befell unto them; saying,"
Genesis 42:31: " And we said him, We are true men; we are no spies:"
Genesis 42:33: "And the man, of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that"
Genesis 42:36: "And Jacob said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon"
Genesis 42:37: "And Reuben spoke unto his father, saying, Slay my two"
Genesis 42:37: "unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons,"
Genesis 42:38: " And he said, shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead,"
Genesis 43:2: "which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again,"
Genesis 43:3: "And Judah spoke unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying,"
