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 13:26: "go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with"
2 Samuel 13:28: "his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart"
2 Samuel 13:28: "heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon;"
2 Samuel 13:30: "came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all"
2 Samuel 13:32: "David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain"
2 Samuel 13:32: "and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men"
2 Samuel 13:33: "the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead:"
2 Samuel 13:35: "And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king's sons come:"
2 Samuel 14:2: "thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner,"
2 Samuel 14:4: "And when the woman spoke to the king, she fell on her face"
2 Samuel 14:4: "her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king."
2 Samuel 14:5: "And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman,"
2 Samuel 14:5: "And the king unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman,"
2 Samuel 14:7: "is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother,"
2 Samuel 14:8: "And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge"
2 Samuel 14:9: "And the woman said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity"
2 Samuel 14:10: "And the king said, Whosoever saith aught unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch"
2 Samuel 14:11: " Then said let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not"
2 Samuel 14:11: "lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair"
2 Samuel 14:12: "Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord"
2 Samuel 14:12: "unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on."
2 Samuel 14:13: "And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God?"
2 Samuel 14:15: "the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king;"
2 Samuel 14:17: "Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable:"
2 Samuel 14:18: "Then the king and said unto the woman, Hide not from"
2 Samuel 14:18: "I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak."
2 Samuel 14:19: "And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman"
2 Samuel 14:19: "this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king,"
2 Samuel 14:21: "And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done"
2 Samuel 14:22: "the king: and Joab said, Today thy servant knoweth that"
2 Samuel 14:24: "And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face."
2 Samuel 14:30: " Therefore he said his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine,"
2 Samuel 14:31: "to Absalom unto his house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set"
2 Samuel 14:32: "And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying,"
2 Samuel 14:32: "Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send"
2 Samuel 14:32: "hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come"
2 Samuel 15:2: "for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what"
2 Samuel 15:2: "Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one"
2 Samuel 15:3: "And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no"
2 Samuel 15:4: "Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man"
2 Samuel 15:7: "forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee,"
2 Samuel 15:8: "while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem,"
2 Samuel 15:9: "And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron."
2 Samuel 15:10: "throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet,"
2 Samuel 15:10: "the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron."
2 Samuel 15:13: "to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are"
2 Samuel 15:14: "And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise,"
2 Samuel 15:15: "And the king's said unto the king, Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever"
2 Samuel 15:19: " Then said to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou"
2 Samuel 15:21: "the king, and said, As the LORD liveth, and as my lord the king"
