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:
2 Samuel 3:24: "to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner"
2 Samuel 3:28: "And afterward heard it, he said, I and my kingdom"
2 Samuel 3:31: "And David said to Joab, and to all the people that"
2 Samuel 3:33: "over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?"
2 Samuel 3:35: "day, David swore, saying, So do God to me, and more"
2 Samuel 3:38: "And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince"
2 Samuel 4:8: "unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head"
2 Samuel 4:9: "the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed"
2 Samuel 4:10: "When me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have"
2 Samuel 5:1: "to David unto Hebron, and spoke, saying, Behold, we are thy bone"
2 Samuel 5:1: "David unto Hebron, and spoke, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh."
2 Samuel 5:2: "and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee Thou shalt feed"
2 Samuel 5:6: "the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spoke unto David, saying, Except"
2 Samuel 5:6: "of the land: which spoke unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind"
2 Samuel 5:6: "and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in"
2 Samuel 5:8: "And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth"
2 Samuel 5:8: "of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not"
2 Samuel 5:19: "And David of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver"
2 Samuel 5:19: "wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto David, Go up: for"
2 Samuel 5:20: "and David smote them there, and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies"
2 Samuel 5:23: "And when David of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass"
2 Samuel 6:9: "the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come"
2 Samuel 6:12: "And it was told David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house"
2 Samuel 6:20: "came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel"
2 Samuel 6:21: "And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose"
2 Samuel 6:22: "in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honor."
2 Samuel 7:2: "That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I"
2 Samuel 7:3: "And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that"
2 Samuel 7:4: "came unto Nathan, saying,"
2 Samuel 7:5: "Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD,"
2 Samuel 7:5: "my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build"
2 Samuel 7:7: "my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me a house"
2 Samuel 7:8: "Now so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD"
2 Samuel 7:8: "unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took"
2 Samuel 7:18: "in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I, O Lord GOD?"
2 Samuel 7:26: "And let thy name forever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God"
2 Samuel 7:27: "of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee a house: therefore"
2 Samuel 9:1: "And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul,"
2 Samuel 9:2: "him unto David, the king said unto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said,"
2 Samuel 9:2: "unto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant"
2 Samuel 9:3: "And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may show"
2 Samuel 9:3: "of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet"
2 Samuel 9:4: "And the king said unto him, Where is he? And Ziba said unto the king,"
2 Samuel 9:4: "unto him, Where is he? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he"
2 Samuel 9:6: "his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant!"
2 Samuel 9:6: "And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant!"
2 Samuel 9:7: "And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely show"
2 Samuel 9:8: "And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such"
2 Samuel 9:9: "Ziba, Saul's servant, and said unto him, I have given unto thy master's son"
2 Samuel 9:11: " Then said unto the king, According to all that my lord the king"
