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:
Joshua 23:2: "and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken"
Joshua 24:2: "And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD"
Joshua 24:2: "all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers"
Joshua 24:16: "And the people and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD,"
Joshua 24:19: "And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve"
Joshua 24:21: "And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve"
Joshua 24:22: "And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye"
Joshua 24:22: "you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses."
Joshua 24:24: "And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve,"
Joshua 24:27: "And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone"
Judges 1:1: "of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites"
Judges 1:2: "And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land"
Judges 1:3: "And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight"
Judges 1:7: "And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off,"
Judges 1:12: "And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give"
Judges 1:14: "and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What"
Judges 1:15: " And she said me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give"
Judges 1:24: "come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Show us, we pray thee, the entrance"
Judges 2:1: "Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt,"
Judges 2:1: "you unto the land which I swore unto your fathers; and I said, I will never"
Judges 2:3: "Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be"
Judges 2:20: "was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people"
Judges 3:19: "that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said,"
Judges 3:19: "I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out"
Judges 3:20: "which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose"
Judges 3:24: "the doors of the parlor were locked, they said, Surely he covereth"
Judges 3:28: " And he said them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered"
Judges 4:6: "the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not"
Judges 4:8: "And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if"
Judges 4:9: " And she said, with thee: notwithstanding the journey that"
Judges 4:14: "And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day"
Judges 4:18: "to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in"
Judges 4:19: " And he said her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty."
Judges 4:20: " Again he said her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man"
Judges 4:20: "any man doth come and inquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say,"
Judges 4:20: "Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No."
Judges 4:22: "Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will show thee the man"
Judges 5:1: "of Abinoam on that day, saying,"
Judges 5:23: "Curse said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants"
Judges 6:8: "unto the children of Israel, which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God"
Judges 6:8: "of Israel, which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I"
Judges 6:10: " And I said am the LORD your God; fear not the gods"
Judges 6:12: "appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man"
Judges 6:13: "And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with"
Judges 6:13: "which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?"
Judges 6:14: "And the LORD upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save"
Judges 6:15: " And he said him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel?"
Judges 6:16: "And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite"
Judges 6:17: " And he said him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then show"
Judges 6:18: "my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until"
