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:
Jonah 2:2: " And said, by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly"
Jonah 2:4: "Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look"
Jonah 2:10: "And the LORD spoke unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry"
Jonah 3:1: "unto Jonah the second time, saying,"
Jonah 3:4: "day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh"
Jonah 3:7: "And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying,"
Jonah 3:7: "by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast,"
Jonah 4:2: "And he prayed the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this"
Jonah 4:4: " Then said Doest thou well to be angry?"
Jonah 4:8: "in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live."
Jonah 4:9: "And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd?"
Jonah 4:9: "to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death."
Jonah 4:10: " Then said Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not"
Micah 2:3: "Therefore saith the LORD; Behold, against this family"
Micah 2:4: "you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed"
Micah 2:7: " O thou that art named of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings?"
Micah 3:1: " And I said, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel;"
Micah 3:5: "Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err,"
Micah 3:11: "yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none"
Micah 4:2: "And many shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain"
Micah 4:11: "nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion."
Micah 6:1: "what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains,"
Micah 7:10: "it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God?"
Nahum 1:12: "Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus"
Nahum 3:7: "they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan"
Habakkuk 2:2: "And the LORD me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables,"
Habakkuk 2:6: "against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long?"
Habakkuk 2:19: "Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it"
Zephaniah 1:12: "the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not"
Zephaniah 2:15: "city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside"
Zephaniah 3:7: " I said, thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off,"
Zephaniah 3:16: "In that it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not"
Zephaniah 3:20: "your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD."
Haggai 1:1: "of Josedech, the high priest, saying,"
Haggai 1:2: "Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say,"
Haggai 1:2: "the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time"
Haggai 1:2: "saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time"
Haggai 1:3: "by Haggai the prophet, saying,"
Haggai 1:5: "Now saith the LORD of hosts; Consider"
Haggai 1:7: "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways."
Haggai 1:8: "the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD."
Haggai 1:13: " Then spoke the LORD's messenger in the LORD's message unto the people, saying,"
Haggai 1:13: "in the LORD's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD."
Haggai 2:1: "by the prophet Haggai, saying,"
Haggai 2:2: " Speak to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah,"
Haggai 2:2: "and to the residue of the people, saying,"
Haggai 2:6: "For saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it"
Haggai 2:7: "this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts."
Haggai 2:9: "greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place"
Haggai 2:10: "by Haggai the prophet, saying,"
