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 10:2: " Then said I will show kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash,"
2 Samuel 10:3: "And the princes of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest"
2 Samuel 10:5: "greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards"
2 Samuel 10:11: " And he said, the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if"
2 Samuel 11:3: "and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter"
2 Samuel 11:5: "and sent and told David, and said, I am with child."
2 Samuel 11:8: "And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah"
2 Samuel 11:10: "And when they had told saying, Uriah went not down unto his house,"
2 Samuel 11:10: "went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest"
2 Samuel 11:11: "And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide"
2 Samuel 11:12: "And David said to Uriah, Tarry here today also,"
2 Samuel 11:15: "And he wrote saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront"
2 Samuel 11:19: "And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war"
2 Samuel 11:20: "that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city"
2 Samuel 11:21: "in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah"
2 Samuel 11:23: "And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against"
2 Samuel 11:25: "Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab,"
2 Samuel 11:25: "unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not"
2 Samuel 12:1: "David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one"
2 Samuel 12:5: "was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the LORD liveth,"
2 Samuel 12:7: "And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith"
2 Samuel 12:7: "Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I"
2 Samuel 12:11: "Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house,"
2 Samuel 12:13: "And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said"
2 Samuel 12:13: "I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also"
2 Samuel 12:18: "the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive,"
2 Samuel 12:18: "unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?"
2 Samuel 12:19: "the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead?"
2 Samuel 12:19: "his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead."
2 Samuel 12:21: " Then said unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done?"
2 Samuel 12:22: " And he said, was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said,"
2 Samuel 12:22: "I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious"
2 Samuel 12:27: "messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken"
2 Samuel 13:4: " And he said art thou, being the king's son, lean from day"
2 Samuel 13:4: "to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love"
2 Samuel 13:5: "And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh"
2 Samuel 13:5: "and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar"
2 Samuel 13:6: "was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar"
2 Samuel 13:7: "home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon's"
2 Samuel 13:9: "him; but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, Have out all men from"
2 Samuel 13:10: "And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber, that I may eat"
2 Samuel 13:11: "him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister."
2 Samuel 13:12: " And she answered my brother, do not force me; for no such thing"
2 Samuel 13:15: "her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise,"
2 Samuel 13:16: " And she said cause: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other"
2 Samuel 13:17: "his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this"
2 Samuel 13:20: "And Absalom said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with"
2 Samuel 13:24: "to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant hath sheepshearers;"
2 Samuel 13:25: "And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all"
2 Samuel 13:26: " Then said If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with"
