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 12:5: " And he said them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to"
1 Kings 12:6: "his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer"
1 Kings 12:7: "And they spoke him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people"
1 Kings 12:9: " And he said them, What counsel give ye that we may answer"
1 Kings 12:9: "people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father"
1 Kings 12:10: "with him spoke unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people"
1 Kings 12:10: "unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spoke"
1 Kings 12:10: "that spoke unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy,"
1 Kings 12:12: "as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day."
1 Kings 12:14: "them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy,"
1 Kings 12:16: "answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David?"
1 Kings 12:22: "Shemaiah the man of God, saying,"
1 Kings 12:23: " Speak Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto"
1 Kings 12:23: "and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,"
1 Kings 12:24: "Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against"
1 Kings 12:26: "And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David:"
1 Kings 12:28: "two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up"
1 Kings 13:2: "the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith"
1 Kings 13:2: "O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born"
1 Kings 13:3: "the same day, saying, This is the sign which the LORD"
1 Kings 13:4: "his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which"
1 Kings 13:6: "And the king and said unto the man of God, Entreat now"
1 Kings 13:8: "And the man said unto the king, If thou wilt give me"
1 Kings 13:9: "was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor"
1 Kings 13:13: " And he said his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode"
1 Kings 13:14: "him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God"
1 Kings 13:14: "camest from Judah? And he said, I"
1 Kings 13:15: " Then he said him, Come home with me, and eat bread."
1 Kings 13:16: " And he said, not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither"
1 Kings 13:18: " He said am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spoke unto me by the word"
1 Kings 13:18: "unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house,"
1 Kings 13:21: "came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch"
1 Kings 13:21: "Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed"
1 Kings 13:26: "from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who"
1 Kings 13:27: "And he spoke his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled"
1 Kings 13:31: "And it came to pass, he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, When I am dead,"
1 Kings 13:31: "him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulcher wherein"
1 Kings 14:2: "And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou"
1 Kings 14:5: "And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh"
1 Kings 14:6: "of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why"
1 Kings 14:7: "Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,"
1 Kings 14:7: "Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch"
1 Kings 15:18: "of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,"
1 Kings 16:1: "of Hanani against Baasha, saying,"
1 Kings 16:16: "And the people heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain"
1 Kings 17:1: "who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD"
1 Kings 17:2: "came unto him, saying,"
1 Kings 17:8: "came unto him, saying,"
1 Kings 17:10: "of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water"
1 Kings 17:11: "it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread"
