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:
Esther 2:15: "Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained"
Esther 2:22: "it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai's name."
Esther 3:3: "which were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou"
Esther 3:4: "Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto"
Esther 3:8: "And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad"
Esther 3:11: "And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee."
Esther 4:7: "of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries"
Esther 4:10: "Again Esther spoke unto Hatach, and gave him commandment unto Mordecai;"
Esther 4:13: "Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself"
Esther 4:15: "Then Esther bade them return Mordecai"
Esther 5:3: " Then said unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even given"
Esther 5:4: "And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman"
Esther 5:5: "Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther"
Esther 5:6: "And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted"
Esther 5:7: "Then answered and said, My petition and my request"
Esther 5:12: "Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with"
Esther 5:14: " Then said his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty"
Esther 5:14: "cubits high, and tomorrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged"
Esther 6:1: "could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records"
Esther 6:3: "And the king said, What honor and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for"
Esther 6:3: "to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing"
Esther 6:4: "And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court"
Esther 6:4: "court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai"
Esther 6:5: "And the king's said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court."
Esther 6:5: "standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in."
Esther 6:6: "So Haman And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom"
Esther 6:6: "delighteth to honor? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight"
Esther 6:7: "And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth"
Esther 6:10: "Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse,"
Esther 6:13: "every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If"
Esther 7:2: "And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine,"
Esther 7:3: "Then Esther answered and said, If I have found favor in thy sight,"
Esther 7:5: "Then the king answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he,"
Esther 7:5: "Then the king answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he,"
Esther 7:6: "And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman."
Esther 7:8: "was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king,"
Esther 7:9: "of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also,"
Esther 7:9: "in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon."
Esther 8:5: " And said, it please the king, and if I have found favor"
Esther 8:7: "Then the king said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold,"
Esther 9:12: "And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five"
Esther 9:13: " Then said If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews"
Esther 9:14: "And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged"
Esther 9:25: "But when Esther came the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device,"
Job 1:5: "of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed"
Job 1:7: "And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan"
Job 1:7: "thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth,"
Job 1:8: "And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant"
Job 1:9: "the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for naught?"
Job 1:12: "And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power;"
