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:
Malachi 3:11: "shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts."
Malachi 3:12: "ye shall be a delightful land, saith the LORD of hosts."
Malachi 3:13: "Your words against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken"
Malachi 3:13: "against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against"
Malachi 3:14: " Ye have said, to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept"
Malachi 3:17: "And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up"
Malachi 4:1: "and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that"
Malachi 4:3: "that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts."
