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 14:43: "Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan"
1 Samuel 14:43: "thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey"
1 Samuel 14:44: "And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for"
1 Samuel 14:45: "And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought"
1 Samuel 15:1: "Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king"
1 Samuel 15:2: "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek"
1 Samuel 15:6: "And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among"
1 Samuel 15:10: "of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,"
1 Samuel 15:12: "in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold,"
1 Samuel 15:13: "to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed"
1 Samuel 15:14: "And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing"
1 Samuel 15:15: "And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared"
1 Samuel 15:16: "hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on."
1 Samuel 15:16: "Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what"
1 Samuel 15:17: "And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not"
1 Samuel 15:18: "And the LORD thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners"
1 Samuel 15:20: "And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD,"
1 Samuel 15:22: "And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice"
1 Samuel 15:24: "And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed"
1 Samuel 15:26: "And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for"
1 Samuel 15:28: "And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel"
1 Samuel 15:30: " Then he said, yet honor me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people,"
1 Samuel 15:32: " Then said Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites."
1 Samuel 15:32: "unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past."
1 Samuel 15:33: "And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother"
1 Samuel 16:1: "And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn"
1 Samuel 16:2: "And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the LORD"
1 Samuel 16:2: "hear it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take a heifer with"
1 Samuel 16:2: "Take a heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD."
1 Samuel 16:3: "and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto"
1 Samuel 16:4: "of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?"
1 Samuel 16:5: " And he said, I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with"
1 Samuel 16:6: "that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD's anointed is before"
1 Samuel 16:7: "But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance,"
1 Samuel 16:8: "Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD"
1 Samuel 16:9: "Then Jesse to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen"
1 Samuel 16:10: "before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD hath not"
1 Samuel 16:11: "And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth"
1 Samuel 16:11: "Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold,"
1 Samuel 16:11: "he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch"
1 Samuel 16:12: "and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this"
1 Samuel 16:15: "And Saul's said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit"
1 Samuel 16:16: "Let our lord command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning"
1 Samuel 16:17: "And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play"
1 Samuel 16:18: "Then answered of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse"
1 Samuel 16:19: "messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son,"
1 Samuel 16:22: "to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before"
1 Samuel 17:8: "unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array?"
1 Samuel 17:10: "And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this"
1 Samuel 17:17: "And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah"
