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 45:26: "And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all"
Genesis 45:28: "And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go"
Genesis 46:2: "And God spoke unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob."
Genesis 46:2: "unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here"
Genesis 46:2: "and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here"
Genesis 46:3: " And he said, am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down"
Genesis 46:30: "And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen"
Genesis 46:31: "And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up,"
Genesis 46:31: "I will go up, and show Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house,"
Genesis 46:33: "Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?"
Genesis 46:34: " That ye shall say, trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until"
Genesis 47:1: "and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds,"
Genesis 47:3: "And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto"
Genesis 47:3: "his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds,"
Genesis 47:4: " They said Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for"
Genesis 47:5: "And Pharaoh spoke unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come"
Genesis 47:5: "unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto"
Genesis 47:8: "And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old"
Genesis 47:9: "And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred"
Genesis 47:15: "all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread:"
Genesis 47:16: "And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money"
Genesis 47:18: "unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord,"
Genesis 47:23: "Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land"
Genesis 47:25: " And they said, let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's"
Genesis 47:29: "and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace"
Genesis 47:30: "me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burial place. And he said, I will do as thou hast said."
Genesis 47:31: " And he said, unto me. And he swore unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head."
Genesis 48:1: "these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick:"
Genesis 48:2: "And one told and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto"
Genesis 48:3: "And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto"
Genesis 48:4: " And said me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people;"
Genesis 48:8: "Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?"
Genesis 48:9: "And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God"
Genesis 48:9: "God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless"
Genesis 48:11: "And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face:"
Genesis 48:15: "And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers"
Genesis 48:18: "And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for"
Genesis 48:19: "And his father and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also"
Genesis 48:20: "And he blessed day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God"
Genesis 48:20: "saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh:"
Genesis 48:21: "And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God"
Genesis 49:1: "unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which"
Genesis 49:29: "And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury"
Genesis 50:4: "unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace"
Genesis 50:4: "I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,"
Genesis 50:5: "My father saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which"
Genesis 50:6: "And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear."
Genesis 50:11: "the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians:"
Genesis 50:15: "that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite"
Genesis 50:16: "And they sent a messenger Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died,"
