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 20:3: "that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know"
1 Samuel 20:4: " Then said unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do"
1 Samuel 20:4: "David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do"
1 Samuel 20:5: "And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I"
1 Samuel 20:6: "If at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked"
1 Samuel 20:7: "If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth,"
1 Samuel 20:9: "And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that"
1 Samuel 20:10: " Then said to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what"
1 Samuel 20:11: "And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out"
1 Samuel 20:12: "And Jonathan said unto David, O LORD God of Israel, when"
1 Samuel 20:18: "Then Jonathan said to David, Tomorrow is the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty."
1 Samuel 20:21: "the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows"
1 Samuel 20:21: "the arrows. If I expressly say I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows"
1 Samuel 20:22: "But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond"
1 Samuel 20:26: "that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean;"
1 Samuel 20:27: "that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his son,"
1 Samuel 20:29: " And he said, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother,"
1 Samuel 20:30: "was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not"
1 Samuel 20:32: "Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what"
1 Samuel 20:36: " And he said Run, find out now the arrows which"
1 Samuel 20:37: "cried after the lad, and said, Is not the arrow beyond"
1 Samuel 20:40: "unto his lad, and said unto him, Go, carry them to the city."
1 Samuel 20:42: "And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both"
1 Samuel 20:42: "of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between me and thee, and between"
1 Samuel 21:1: "was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no"
1 Samuel 21:2: "And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said"
1 Samuel 21:2: "The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know"
1 Samuel 21:4: "David, and said, There is no common bread under"
1 Samuel 21:5: "the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept"
1 Samuel 21:8: "And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand"
1 Samuel 21:9: "And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley"
1 Samuel 21:9: "save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give"
1 Samuel 21:11: "And the servants said unto him, Is not this David the king"
1 Samuel 21:11: "sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David"
1 Samuel 21:14: " Then said unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad:"
1 Samuel 22:3: "thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab,"
1 Samuel 22:5: "And the prophet said unto David, Abide not in the hold;"
1 Samuel 22:7: "Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites;"
1 Samuel 22:9: "over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse"
1 Samuel 22:12: "And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here"
1 Samuel 22:12: "now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord."
1 Samuel 22:13: "And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son"
1 Samuel 22:14: "the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants"
1 Samuel 22:16: "And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's"
1 Samuel 22:17: "And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests"
1 Samuel 22:18: "And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg"
1 Samuel 22:22: "And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg"
1 Samuel 23:1: "Then they told saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they"
1 Samuel 23:2: "Therefore David of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines?"
1 Samuel 23:2: "these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and smite"
