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 15:22: "And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite"
2 Samuel 15:25: "And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city:"
2 Samuel 15:26: "But if say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as"
2 Samuel 15:27: "The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art not thou a seer? return"
2 Samuel 15:31: "And one told saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David"
2 Samuel 15:31: "with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel"
2 Samuel 15:33: "Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a burden unto"
2 Samuel 15:34: "But if to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant,"
2 Samuel 16:2: "And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said,"
2 Samuel 16:2: "What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on;"
2 Samuel 16:3: "And the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba said unto"
2 Samuel 16:3: "is thy master's son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth"
2 Samuel 16:3: "he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, Today shall the house of Israel restore"
2 Samuel 16:4: " Then said to Ziba, Behold, thine are all that pertained unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba"
2 Samuel 16:4: "that pertained unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee that I may find grace in thy sight,"
2 Samuel 16:7: "And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man,"
2 Samuel 16:9: " Then said the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this"
2 Samuel 16:10: "And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because"
2 Samuel 16:10: "let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David. Who"
2 Samuel 16:10: "David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?"
2 Samuel 16:11: "And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold,"
2 Samuel 16:11: "may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden"
2 Samuel 16:16: "unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the king,"
2 Samuel 16:17: "And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend?"
2 Samuel 16:18: "And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the LORD,"
2 Samuel 16:20: " Then said to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do."
2 Samuel 16:21: "And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines,"
2 Samuel 17:1: "Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve"
2 Samuel 17:5: " Then said Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear"
2 Samuel 17:6: "to Absalom, Absalom spoke unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken"
2 Samuel 17:6: "Absalom spoke unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner:"
2 Samuel 17:7: "And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given"
2 Samuel 17:8: " For, said thou knowest thy father and his men, that"
2 Samuel 17:9: "when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people"
2 Samuel 17:14: "the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better"
2 Samuel 17:15: " Then said unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus"
2 Samuel 17:16: "quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains"
2 Samuel 17:20: "to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman"
2 Samuel 17:20: "is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought"
2 Samuel 17:21: "and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise,"
2 Samuel 17:29: "were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty,"
2 Samuel 18:2: "of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth"
2 Samuel 18:3: "But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away,"
2 Samuel 18:4: "And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king"
2 Samuel 18:5: "Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all"
2 Samuel 18:10: "saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom"
2 Samuel 18:11: "And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not"
2 Samuel 18:12: "And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand"
2 Samuel 18:12: "charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom."
2 Samuel 18:14: " Then said I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three"
