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 20:17: "said, Art thou Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him Hear the words"
2 Samuel 20:17: "Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered,"
2 Samuel 20:17: "unto him Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear."
2 Samuel 20:18: " Then she spoke, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask"
2 Samuel 20:18: "Then she spoke, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask"
2 Samuel 20:18: "They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so"
2 Samuel 20:20: "And Joab and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or"
2 Samuel 20:21: "and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab,"
2 Samuel 21:1: "inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for"
2 Samuel 21:2: "And the king the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children"
2 Samuel 21:3: "Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement,"
2 Samuel 21:4: "And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of"
2 Samuel 21:4: "for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do"
2 Samuel 21:4: "And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do"
2 Samuel 21:5: " And they answered The man that consumed us, and that devised"
2 Samuel 21:6: "of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give"
2 Samuel 21:16: "he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David."
2 Samuel 21:17: "the men of David swore unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle,"
2 Samuel 22:2: " And he said, is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;"
2 Samuel 23:3: "The God said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that ruleth over men"
2 Samuel 23:15: "And David and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well"
2 Samuel 23:17: " And he said, from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men"
2 Samuel 24:1: "and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel"
2 Samuel 24:2: "For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with"
2 Samuel 24:3: "And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto"
2 Samuel 24:10: "the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly"
2 Samuel 24:11: "Gad, David's seer, saying,"
2 Samuel 24:12: "Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I"
2 Samuel 24:13: "to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come"
2 Samuel 24:14: "And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now"
2 Samuel 24:16: "repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough:"
2 Samuel 24:17: "And David spoke unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote"
2 Samuel 24:17: "the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I"
2 Samuel 24:18: "day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD"
2 Samuel 24:21: "And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant?"
2 Samuel 24:21: "to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of"
2 Samuel 24:22: "And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up"
2 Samuel 24:23: "unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept"
2 Samuel 24:24: "And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy"
1 Kings 1:2: "Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand"
1 Kings 1:5: "of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots"
1 Kings 1:6: "displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so?"
1 Kings 1:11: "Wherefore Nathan spoke unto Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not"
1 Kings 1:11: "Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah"
1 Kings 1:13: "unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord,"
1 Kings 1:13: "O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign"
1 Kings 1:16: "and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What"
1 Kings 1:17: " And she said thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly"
1 Kings 1:23: "And they told saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before"
1 Kings 1:24: "And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall reign"
