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 9:3: "his head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over"
2 Kings 9:5: "the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu"
2 Kings 9:5: "to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of all"
2 Kings 9:5: "Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain."
2 Kings 9:6: "the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God"
2 Kings 9:6: "his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have anointed"
2 Kings 9:11: "to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this"
2 Kings 9:11: "this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man,"
2 Kings 9:12: " And they said, tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus spoke"
2 Kings 9:12: "tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus spoke he to"
2 Kings 9:12: "And he said, Thus and thus spoke he to me, saying, Thus saith"
2 Kings 9:12: "and thus spoke he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed"
2 Kings 9:12: "he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over"
2 Kings 9:13: "of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king."
2 Kings 9:15: "king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none"
2 Kings 9:17: "the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram"
2 Kings 9:17: "see a company. And Joram said, Take a horseman, and send to meet"
2 Kings 9:17: "a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?"
2 Kings 9:18: "So there went to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king,"
2 Kings 9:18: "to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu"
2 Kings 9:18: "saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn"
2 Kings 9:18: "turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came"
2 Kings 9:19: "on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king,"
2 Kings 9:19: "which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu"
2 Kings 9:19: "saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn"
2 Kings 9:20: "And the watchman saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again:"
2 Kings 9:21: "And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram king of Israel"
2 Kings 9:22: "saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What"
2 Kings 9:22: "that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms"
2 Kings 9:23: "his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah."
2 Kings 9:25: " Then said Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field"
2 Kings 9:27: "And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot."
2 Kings 9:31: "And as Jehu at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?"
2 Kings 9:32: "to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out"
2 Kings 9:33: " And he said, So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall,"
2 Kings 9:34: "And when he was come in, and drink, and said, Go, see now this"
2 Kings 9:36: "Wherefore they came again, him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spoke"
2 Kings 9:36: "his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat"
2 Kings 9:37: "of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel."
2 Kings 10:1: "and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,"
2 Kings 10:4: "But they were exceedingly and said, Behold, two kings stood"
2 Kings 10:5: "of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and will do all"
2 Kings 10:5: "and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king:"
2 Kings 10:6: "the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken"
2 Kings 10:8: "And there came and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons."
2 Kings 10:8: "the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in"
2 Kings 10:9: "that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye"
2 Kings 10:13: "of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We"
2 Kings 10:13: "and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down"
2 Kings 10:14: " And he said, them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit"
