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 2:42: "make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out,"
1 Kings 2:42: "any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word"
1 Kings 2:44: "The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all"
1 Kings 3:5: "in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give"
1 Kings 3:6: "And Solomon said, Thou hast showed unto thy servant David my father"
1 Kings 3:11: "And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this"
1 Kings 3:17: "And the one said, O my lord, I and this woman"
1 Kings 3:22: "And the other said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead"
1 Kings 3:22: "and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son,"
1 Kings 3:23: " Then said The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son"
1 Kings 3:23: "Then said The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son"
1 Kings 3:23: "and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead,"
1 Kings 3:24: "And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king."
1 Kings 3:25: "And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give"
1 Kings 3:26: " Then spoke whose the living child was unto the king, for"
1 Kings 3:26: "yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her"
1 Kings 3:26: "and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither"
1 Kings 3:27: "Then the king and said, Give her the living child, and in no"
1 Kings 5:2: "to Hiram, saying,"
1 Kings 5:5: "And, behold, I purpose to build a house unto the name of the LORD my God, as"
1 Kings 5:5: "unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon"
1 Kings 5:6: "for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that"
1 Kings 5:7: "of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which"
1 Kings 5:8: "to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which thou sentest"
1 Kings 6:11: "came to Solomon, saying,"
1 Kings 8:12: "Then spoke Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness."
1 Kings 8:12: "Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness."
1 Kings 8:15: " And he said, be the LORD God of Israel, which spoke with his mouth"
1 Kings 8:15: "my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,"
1 Kings 8:18: "And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was"
1 Kings 8:23: " And he said, God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven"
1 Kings 8:25: "that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight"
1 Kings 8:29: "even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken"
1 Kings 8:47: "they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned,"
1 Kings 8:55: "of Israel with a loud voice, saying,"
1 Kings 9:3: "And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that"
1 Kings 9:5: "to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon"
1 Kings 9:8: "by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus"
1 Kings 9:9: " And they shall answer, they forsook the LORD their God, who"
1 Kings 9:13: " And he said, cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called"
1 Kings 10:6: " And she said the king, It was a true report that I heard"
1 Kings 11:2: "concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not"
1 Kings 11:11: "Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of"
1 Kings 11:18: "Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him a house, and appointed him victuals, and gave"
1 Kings 11:21: "of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go"
1 Kings 11:22: "Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold,"
1 Kings 11:22: "to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise."
1 Kings 11:31: " And he said Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith"
1 Kings 11:31: "pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold,"
1 Kings 12:3: "and spoke unto Rehoboam, saying,"
