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 Kings 6:20: "into Samaria, that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes"
2 Kings 6:21: "And the king said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite"
2 Kings 6:22: " And he answered, smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword"
2 Kings 6:26: "there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king."
2 Kings 6:27: " And he said, do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of"
2 Kings 6:28: "And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto"
2 Kings 6:28: "And the king unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto"
2 Kings 6:28: "aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son,"
2 Kings 6:29: "my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give"
2 Kings 6:31: " Then he said, do so and more also to me, if the head"
2 Kings 6:32: "the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See"
2 Kings 6:33: "the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of"
2 Kings 7:1: "Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD,"
2 Kings 7:1: "ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, Tomorrow about this time shall a measure"
2 Kings 7:2: "the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows"
2 Kings 7:2: "might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not"
2 Kings 7:3: "men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why"
2 Kings 7:4: "If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there:"
2 Kings 7:6: "even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo,"
2 Kings 7:9: " Then they said to another, We do not well:"
2 Kings 7:10: "the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians,"
2 Kings 7:12: "And the king in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now show"
2 Kings 7:12: "the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city,"
2 Kings 7:13: "And one answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five"
2 Kings 7:14: "after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see."
2 Kings 7:18: "had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure"
2 Kings 7:19: "the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows"
2 Kings 7:19: "might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not"
2 Kings 8:1: "son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household,"
2 Kings 8:4: "the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all"
2 Kings 8:5: "for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king,"
2 Kings 8:6: "appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that"
2 Kings 8:7: "of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither."
2 Kings 8:8: "And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go,"
2 Kings 8:8: "of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?"
2 Kings 8:9: "and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria"
2 Kings 8:9: "of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?"
2 Kings 8:10: "And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the LORD"
2 Kings 8:10: "unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath showed"
2 Kings 8:12: "And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know"
2 Kings 8:12: "Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil"
2 Kings 8:13: "And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do"
2 Kings 8:13: "great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath showed me that thou shalt be king over"
2 Kings 8:14: "Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha"
2 Kings 8:14: "to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told"
2 Kings 8:14: "who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest surely recover."
2 Kings 8:14: "to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest surely recover."
2 Kings 8:19: "his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him always a light,"
2 Kings 9:1: "one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take"
2 Kings 9:3: "and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed"
