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 22:16: "Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this"
2 Kings 22:18: "of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD"
2 Kings 22:18: "shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the words"
2 Kings 23:17: " Then he said, title is that that I see? And the men"
2 Kings 23:17: "see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulcher of the man of God,"
2 Kings 23:18: " And he said, let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone,"
2 Kings 23:21: "all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God,"
2 Kings 23:27: "And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of"
2 Kings 23:27: "which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there."
2 Kings 25:24: "And Gedaliah to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants"
1 Chronicles 4:9: "and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bore him with sorrow."
1 Chronicles 4:10: "on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge"
1 Chronicles 10:4: " Then said to his armorbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through"
1 Chronicles 11:1: "to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh."
1 Chronicles 11:2: "and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed"
1 Chronicles 11:5: "And the inhabitants said to David, Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David"
1 Chronicles 11:6: "And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief"
1 Chronicles 11:17: "And David and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well"
1 Chronicles 11:19: " And said, forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink"
1 Chronicles 12:17: "to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto"
1 Chronicles 12:19: "of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul"
1 Chronicles 13:2: "And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto"
1 Chronicles 13:4: "And all said that they would do so: for the thing was right"
1 Chronicles 13:12: "of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark"
1 Chronicles 14:10: "And David of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver"
1 Chronicles 14:10: "and wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thine hand."
1 Chronicles 14:11: "smote them there. Then David said, God hath broken in upon mine enemies"
1 Chronicles 14:12: "their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire."
1 Chronicles 14:14: "again of God; and God said unto him Go not up after them; turn away"
1 Chronicles 15:2: "Then said, None ought to carry the ark of God"
1 Chronicles 15:12: " And said are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren,"
1 Chronicles 15:16: "And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers"
1 Chronicles 16:18: " Saying, the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;"
1 Chronicles 16:31: "and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth."
1 Chronicles 16:35: " And say us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen,"
1 Chronicles 16:36: "forever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised"
1 Chronicles 17:1: "sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo,"
1 Chronicles 17:2: "Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart;"
1 Chronicles 17:3: "came to Nathan, saying,"
1 Chronicles 17:4: "Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD,"
1 Chronicles 17:4: "David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not"
1 Chronicles 17:6: "I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built"
1 Chronicles 17:7: "unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took"
1 Chronicles 17:7: "Now shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD"
1 Chronicles 17:16: "and sat before the LORD, and said, Who am I, O LORD God,"
1 Chronicles 17:24: "may be magnified forever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God"
1 Chronicles 19:2: "And David said, I will show kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash,"
1 Chronicles 19:3: "But the princes of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honor"
1 Chronicles 19:5: "greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until"
1 Chronicles 19:12: " And he said, the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if"
