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 21:1: "Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as"
Genesis 21:6: "And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh"
Genesis 21:7: " And she said, would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for"
Genesis 21:10: " Wherefore she said Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son"
Genesis 21:12: "And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of"
Genesis 21:12: "in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for"
Genesis 21:16: "over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see"
Genesis 21:17: "Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not;"
Genesis 21:22: "and Phichol the chief captain of his host spoke unto Abraham, saying, God"
Genesis 21:22: "spoke unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that"
Genesis 21:24: "And Abraham said, I will swear."
Genesis 21:26: "And Abimelech said, I know not who hath done this"
Genesis 21:29: "And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs"
Genesis 21:30: " And he said, these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand,"
Genesis 22:1: "did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold,"
Genesis 22:1: "and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold,"
Genesis 22:2: " And he said, now thy son, thine only son"
Genesis 22:2: "one of the mountains which I will tell thee of."
Genesis 22:3: "the place of which God had told"
Genesis 22:5: "And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass;"
Genesis 22:7: "And Isaac spoke unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said,"
Genesis 22:7: "unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son."
Genesis 22:7: "his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold"
Genesis 22:7: "and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where"
Genesis 22:8: "And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went"
Genesis 22:9: "the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar"
Genesis 22:11: "unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here"
Genesis 22:11: "and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here"
Genesis 22:12: " And he said, not thine hand upon the lad, neither do"
Genesis 22:14: "place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen."
Genesis 22:16: " And said, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done"
Genesis 22:20: "things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also"
Genesis 23:3: "his dead, and spoke unto the sons of Heth, saying,"
Genesis 23:5: "answered Abraham, saying"
Genesis 23:8: "And he communed them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury"
Genesis 23:10: "that went in at the gate of his city, saying,"
Genesis 23:13: "in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee,"
Genesis 23:14: "Abraham, saying"
Genesis 24:2: "And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all"
Genesis 24:5: "And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow"
Genesis 24:6: "And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son"
Genesis 24:7: "and from the land of my kindred, and which spoke unto me, and that swore unto me, saying, Unto thy seed"
Genesis 24:12: " And he said, God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed"
Genesis 24:14: "And let it come to pass, to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee,"
Genesis 24:14: "Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink"
Genesis 24:17: "And the servant to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water"
Genesis 24:18: " And she said, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand,"
Genesis 24:19: "And when she had done she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until"
Genesis 24:23: " And said, daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room"
Genesis 24:24: " And she said him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which"
