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:
Zechariah 8:19: "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth,"
Zechariah 8:20: "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people,"
Zechariah 8:21: "city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray"
Zechariah 8:23: "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten"
Zechariah 8:23: "even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for"
Zechariah 11:4: "Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;"
Zechariah 11:5: "slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich:"
Zechariah 11:9: " Then said feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest"
Zechariah 11:12: " And I said them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if"
Zechariah 11:13: "And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price"
Zechariah 11:15: "And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd."
Zechariah 12:5: "And the governors shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD"
Zechariah 13:3: "then his father and his mother that begot him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for"
Zechariah 13:5: " But he shall say, am no prophet, I am a husbandman;"
Zechariah 13:6: " And one shall say him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer,"
Zechariah 13:6: "wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends."
Zechariah 13:9: "on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say,"
Zechariah 13:9: "It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God."
Malachi 1:2: "I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau"
Malachi 1:2: "I have loved the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau"
Malachi 1:4: "Whereas saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus"
Malachi 1:4: "and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build,"
Malachi 1:5: "And your eyes and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from"
Malachi 1:6: "be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise"
Malachi 1:6: "unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?"
Malachi 1:7: "bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table"
Malachi 1:7: "and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible."
Malachi 1:8: "with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts."
Malachi 1:9: "by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD of hosts."
Malachi 1:10: "for naught. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept"
Malachi 1:11: "for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts."
Malachi 1:12: "But ye it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat,"
Malachi 1:13: " Ye said what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts;"
Malachi 1:13: "what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought"
Malachi 1:13: "an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD."
Malachi 1:14: "I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful"
Malachi 2:2: "to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send"
Malachi 2:4: "might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts."
Malachi 2:8: "at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts."
Malachi 2:14: " Yet ye say, Because the LORD hath been witness between"
Malachi 2:16: "the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence"
Malachi 2:16: "violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit,"
Malachi 2:17: "Ye have wearied with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one"
Malachi 2:17: "Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good"
Malachi 3:1: "delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts."
Malachi 3:5: "the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts."
Malachi 3:7: "kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts."
Malachi 3:7: "me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?"
Malachi 3:8: "Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings."
Malachi 3:10: "in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if"
