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:
1 Samuel 2:30: "God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father,"
1 Samuel 2:30: "of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk"
1 Samuel 2:36: "of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one"
1 Samuel 3:4: "That the LORD Samuel: and he answered, Here"
1 Samuel 3:5: "And he ran Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said,"
1 Samuel 3:5: "Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again."
1 Samuel 3:6: "and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And he answered,"
1 Samuel 3:6: "Here am I; for thou didst call me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down"
1 Samuel 3:8: "and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And Eli"
1 Samuel 3:9: "Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call"
1 Samuel 3:9: "and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for"
1 Samuel 3:10: "as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant"
1 Samuel 3:11: "And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing"
1 Samuel 3:16: "Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here"
1 Samuel 3:16: "and said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here"
1 Samuel 3:17: " And he said, is the thing that the LORD hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide"
1 Samuel 3:18: "and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth"
1 Samuel 4:3: "the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us today"
1 Samuel 4:6: "the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great"
1 Samuel 4:7: "And the Philistines for they said, God is come into the camp."
1 Samuel 4:7: "is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been"
1 Samuel 4:14: "the noise of the crying, he said, What meaneth the noise of this tumult?"
1 Samuel 4:16: "And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army,"
1 Samuel 4:16: "today out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?"
1 Samuel 4:17: "And the messenger and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been"
1 Samuel 4:21: "And she named Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel:"
1 Samuel 4:22: " And she said, is departed from Israel: for the ark of God"
1 Samuel 5:7: "saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not"
1 Samuel 5:8: "the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God"
1 Samuel 5:8: "with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about"
1 Samuel 5:10: "to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God"
1 Samuel 5:11: "all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God"
1 Samuel 6:2: "for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD?"
1 Samuel 6:3: " And they said, ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send"
1 Samuel 6:4: " Then said shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden"
1 Samuel 6:4: "shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five"
1 Samuel 6:20: "And the men said, Who is able to stand before this"
1 Samuel 6:21: "to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark"
1 Samuel 7:3: "And Samuel spoke unto all the house of Israel, saying, If"
1 Samuel 7:3: "all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto"
1 Samuel 7:5: "And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray"
1 Samuel 7:6: "and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel"
1 Samuel 7:8: "And the children said to Samuel, Cease not to cry"
1 Samuel 7:12: "the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped"
1 Samuel 8:5: " And said him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not"
1 Samuel 8:6: "Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge"
1 Samuel 8:7: "And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all"
1 Samuel 8:7: "of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected"
1 Samuel 8:10: "And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked"
1 Samuel 8:11: " And he said, will be the manner of the king that shall reign over"
