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:
1 Kings 1:24: "My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall reign after me, and he"
1 Kings 1:25: "they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah."
1 Kings 1:28: "Then king answered and said, Call me Bath-sheba. And she came into the king's"
1 Kings 1:29: "And the king and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed"
1 Kings 1:30: "unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign"
1 Kings 1:31: "to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live"
1 Kings 1:32: "And king said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet,"
1 Kings 1:33: "The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause"
1 Kings 1:34: "Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon."
1 Kings 1:36: "answered the king, and said, Amen: the LORD God of my lord"
1 Kings 1:36: "God of my lord the king say so"
1 Kings 1:39: "the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon."
1 Kings 1:41: "the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?"
1 Kings 1:42: "the priest came: and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou art a valiant"
1 Kings 1:43: "And Jonathan and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David"
1 Kings 1:47: "our lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon"
1 Kings 1:48: "And also said the king, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel,"
1 Kings 1:51: "And it was told saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king"
1 Kings 1:51: "he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me today"
1 Kings 1:52: "And Solomon said, If he will show himself a worthy man, there shall not a hair of"
1 Kings 1:53: "and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto him, Go to thine house."
1 Kings 2:1: "Solomon his son, saying,"
1 Kings 2:4: "which he spoke concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to"
1 Kings 2:4: "their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne"
1 Kings 2:8: "to meet me at Jordan, and I swore to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword."
1 Kings 2:13: "Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably."
1 Kings 2:13: "And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably."
1 Kings 2:14: " He said unto thee. And she said, Say on."
1 Kings 2:14: "He said unto thee. And she said, Say on."
1 Kings 2:15: " And he said, knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel"
1 Kings 2:16: "of thee, deny me not. And she said unto"
1 Kings 2:17: " And he said, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,)"
1 Kings 2:17: "And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,)"
1 Kings 2:18: "And Bath-sheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king."
1 Kings 2:20: " Then she said, desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay."
1 Kings 2:20: "of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on,"
1 Kings 2:21: " And she said, Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife."
1 Kings 2:22: "And king answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask"
1 Kings 2:23: "swore by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more"
1 Kings 2:26: "And unto Abiathar said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields;"
1 Kings 2:29: "Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall"
1 Kings 2:30: "to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said unto him, Thus saith the king,"
1 Kings 2:30: "and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay;"
1 Kings 2:30: "saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here."
1 Kings 2:30: "the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus"
1 Kings 2:31: "And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away"
1 Kings 2:36: "and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell"
1 Kings 2:38: "And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king"
1 Kings 2:39: "king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath."
1 Kings 2:42: "and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD,"
