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 17:25: "And the men said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely"
1 Samuel 17:26: "And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, What"
1 Samuel 17:26: "the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that"
1 Samuel 17:27: "And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man"
1 Samuel 17:27: "him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that"
1 Samuel 17:28: "anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom"
1 Samuel 17:29: "And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?"
1 Samuel 17:30: "And he turned him toward another, and spoke after the same"
1 Samuel 17:32: "And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail"
1 Samuel 17:33: "And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against"
1 Samuel 17:34: "And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's"
1 Samuel 17:37: "David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion,"
1 Samuel 17:37: "will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto"
1 Samuel 17:39: "for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot"
1 Samuel 17:43: "And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou"
1 Samuel 17:44: "And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give"
1 Samuel 17:45: " Then said to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword,"
1 Samuel 17:55: "go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host,"
1 Samuel 17:55: "is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot"
1 Samuel 17:56: "And the king said, Inquire thou whose son the stripling"
1 Samuel 17:58: "And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David"
1 Samuel 17:58: "art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite."
1 Samuel 18:7: "And the women one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David"
1 Samuel 18:8: "and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands,"
1 Samuel 18:11: "the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David"
1 Samuel 18:17: "And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab,"
1 Samuel 18:17: "for me, and fight the LORD's battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be"
1 Samuel 18:18: "And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life,"
1 Samuel 18:21: "And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be"
1 Samuel 18:21: "of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law"
1 Samuel 18:22: "with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all"
1 Samuel 18:23: "in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son-in-law,"
1 Samuel 18:24: "And the servants told him, saying, On this manner spoke David."
1 Samuel 18:25: "And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not"
1 Samuel 18:25: "And Saul Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not"
1 Samuel 19:2: "and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill"
1 Samuel 19:4: "unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin"
1 Samuel 19:11: "David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not"
1 Samuel 19:14: "to take David, she said, He is sick."
1 Samuel 19:15: "again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed,"
1 Samuel 19:17: "And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away"
1 Samuel 19:17: "mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said"
1 Samuel 19:17: "answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why"
1 Samuel 19:19: "And it was told saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah."
1 Samuel 19:22: "that is in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said,"
1 Samuel 19:22: "Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah."
1 Samuel 19:24: "and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?"
1 Samuel 20:1: "from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What"
1 Samuel 20:2: " And he said thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing"
1 Samuel 20:3: "And David moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that"
