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 18:9: " And they said him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent."
Genesis 18:9: "him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent."
Genesis 18:10: " And he said, unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah"
Genesis 18:12: "Therefore Sarah within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure,"
Genesis 18:13: "And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh,"
Genesis 18:13: "Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child,"
Genesis 18:15: "Then Sarah saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said,"
Genesis 18:15: "not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh."
Genesis 18:17: "And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I"
Genesis 18:20: "And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because"
Genesis 18:23: "And Abraham and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?"
Genesis 18:26: "And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within"
Genesis 18:27: "And Abraham and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto"
Genesis 18:28: "all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty"
Genesis 18:29: "him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there."
Genesis 18:29: "there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake."
Genesis 18:30: " And he said let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty"
Genesis 18:30: "there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find"
Genesis 18:31: " And he said, now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure"
Genesis 18:31: "there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake."
Genesis 18:32: " And he said, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once:"
Genesis 18:32: "ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake."
Genesis 19:2: " And he said, now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's"
Genesis 19:2: "and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night."
Genesis 19:5: "And they called Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in"
Genesis 19:7: " And said, brethren, do not so wickedly."
Genesis 19:9: " And they said, back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge:"
Genesis 19:9: "And they said, back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge:"
Genesis 19:12: "And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides a son-in-law,"
Genesis 19:14: "his sons-in-law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this"
Genesis 19:15: "then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife,"
Genesis 19:17: "And it came to pass, abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life;"
Genesis 19:18: "And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:"
Genesis 19:21: " And he said him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also,"
Genesis 19:31: "And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man"
Genesis 19:34: "And it came to pass that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold,"
Genesis 20:2: "And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech"
Genesis 20:3: "Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman"
Genesis 20:4: "But Abimelech come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also"
Genesis 20:5: " Said not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself"
Genesis 20:5: "and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart"
Genesis 20:6: "And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that"
Genesis 20:9: "Then Abimelech Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended"
Genesis 20:10: "And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done"
Genesis 20:11: "And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not"
Genesis 20:11: "And Abraham Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not"
Genesis 20:13: "God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness"
Genesis 20:13: "me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He"
Genesis 20:15: "And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth"
Genesis 20:16: "And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold,"
