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 Chronicles 34:16: "the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants,"
2 Chronicles 34:18: "told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book."
2 Chronicles 34:20: "and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,"
2 Chronicles 34:23: " And she answered saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man"
2 Chronicles 34:23: "And she answered saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man"
2 Chronicles 34:23: "the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to"
2 Chronicles 34:24: "Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this"
2 Chronicles 34:26: "you to inquire of the LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD"
2 Chronicles 34:26: "shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the words"
2 Chronicles 35:3: " And said that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put"
2 Chronicles 35:21: "But he sent to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not"
2 Chronicles 35:21: "the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God,"
2 Chronicles 35:23: "at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded."
2 Chronicles 35:25: "and all the singing men and the singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to"
2 Chronicles 36:22: "throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,"
2 Chronicles 36:23: "Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth"
Ezra 1:1: "that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,"
Ezra 1:2: "Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven"
Ezra 2:63: "And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things,"
Ezra 4:2: "and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek"
Ezra 4:3: "of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build a house unto our God;"
Ezra 8:22: "us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand"
Ezra 8:22: "in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon"
Ezra 8:28: " And I said them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver"
Ezra 9:1: "the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites,"
Ezra 9:6: " And said, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God:"
Ezra 9:10: "And now, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken"
Ezra 9:11: "by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go"
Ezra 10:2: "one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed"
Ezra 10:10: "And Ezra stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken"
Ezra 10:12: "Then all answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said,"
Nehemiah 1:3: " And they said that are left of the captivity there in the province"
Nehemiah 1:5: " And said, thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God,"
Nehemiah 1:8: "thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad"
Nehemiah 2:2: "Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick?"
Nehemiah 2:3: " And said Let the king live forever: why should not my countenance"
Nehemiah 2:4: "Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed"
Nehemiah 2:5: " And I said If it please the king, and if thy servant"
Nehemiah 2:6: "And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey"
Nehemiah 2:7: " Moreover I said If it please the king, let letters be given"
Nehemiah 2:17: " Then said them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how"
Nehemiah 2:18: "me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build."
Nehemiah 2:18: "the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened"
Nehemiah 2:19: "heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing"
Nehemiah 2:20: "Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we"
Nehemiah 4:2: " And he spoke his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do"
Nehemiah 4:2: "his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews?"
Nehemiah 4:3: "Now Tobiah was by him, and he said, Even that which they build,"
Nehemiah 4:10: "And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we"
Nehemiah 4:11: "And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till"
