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:
Judges 19:23: "of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you,"
Judges 19:28: " And he said her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her up upon"
Judges 19:30: "And it was that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor"
Judges 20:3: "of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how"
Judges 20:4: "of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that"
Judges 20:8: "arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent,"
Judges 20:12: "through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that"
Judges 20:18: "to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle"
Judges 20:18: "the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first."
Judges 20:23: "even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against"
Judges 20:23: "of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against"
Judges 20:28: "before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle"
Judges 20:28: "or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver"
Judges 20:32: "And the children said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children"
Judges 20:32: "us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city"
Judges 20:39: "about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down"
Judges 21:1: "had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give"
Judges 21:3: " And said, God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel,"
Judges 21:5: "And the children said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel"
Judges 21:5: "concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death."
Judges 21:6: "them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel"
Judges 21:8: " And they said, one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up"
Judges 21:10: "thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, Go"
Judges 21:16: "Then the elders said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing"
Judges 21:17: " And they said, for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel."
Judges 21:18: "for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife"
Judges 21:19: " Then they said, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly"
Judges 21:20: "the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;"
Judges 21:22: "come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favorable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved"
Ruth 1:8: "And Naomi said unto her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each to her mother's"
Ruth 1:10: " And they said we will return with thee unto thy people."
Ruth 1:11: "And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet"
Ruth 1:12: "to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have"
Ruth 1:15: " And she said, thy sister-in-law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods:"
Ruth 1:16: "And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after"
Ruth 1:19: "the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?"
Ruth 1:20: " And she said them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for"
Ruth 2:2: "And Ruth said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field,"
Ruth 2:2: "after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter."
Ruth 2:4: "came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The LORD be with"
Ruth 2:4: "and said unto the reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless"
Ruth 2:5: " Then said unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel"
Ruth 2:6: "over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back"
Ruth 2:7: " And she said, you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came,"
Ruth 2:8: " Then said unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go"
Ruth 2:10: "her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace"
Ruth 2:11: "And Boaz and said unto her, It hath fully been showed me, all that thou hast done"
Ruth 2:13: " Then she said, favor in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that"
Ruth 2:14: "And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of"
Ruth 2:15: "commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves,"
