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:
Psalms 79:10: "Wherefore say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight"
Psalms 82:6: "I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High."
Psalms 83:4: " They have said, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no"
Psalms 83:12: "Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God"
Psalms 87:5: "And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish"
Psalms 89:2: "For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens."
Psalms 89:19: "in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty;"
Psalms 90:3: "to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men."
Psalms 91:2: " I will say He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust."
Psalms 94:4: "and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?"
Psalms 94:7: " Yet they say, shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard"
Psalms 94:18: "When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up."
Psalms 95:10: "long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart,"
Psalms 96:10: " Say that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not"
Psalms 102:24: " I said, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations."
Psalms 105:11: " Saying, the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:"
Psalms 105:31: " He spoke, divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts."
Psalms 105:34: " He spoke, came, and caterpillars, and that without number,"
Psalms 106:23: " Therefore he said them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach,"
Psalms 106:34: "the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded"
Psalms 106:48: "everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD."
Psalms 107:2: "Let the redeemed say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;"
Psalms 107:25: " For he commandeth, the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves"
Psalms 115:2: "Wherefore say, Where is now their God?"
Psalms 116:11: "I said in my haste, All men are liars."
Psalms 118:2: "Let Israel say, that his mercy endureth forever."
Psalms 118:3: "Let the house now say, that his mercy endureth forever."
Psalms 118:4: "Let them now the LORD say, that his mercy endureth forever."
Psalms 119:57: "Thou art my portion, I have said that I would keep thy words."
Psalms 119:82: "Mine eyes for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort"
Psalms 122:1: "of David. I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD."
Psalms 124:1: "who was on our side, now may Israel say;"
Psalms 126:2: "and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things"
Psalms 129:1: "me from my youth, may Israel now say:"
Psalms 129:8: "Neither say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name"
Psalms 137:7: "in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation"
Psalms 139:11: " If I say, the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about"
Psalms 139:20: "For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain."
Psalms 140:6: " I said Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD."
Psalms 142:5: "I cried thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land"
Psalms 145:6: " And men shall speak of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness."
Psalms 145:11: " They shall speak of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power;"
Proverbs 1:11: "If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent"
Proverbs 1:21: "in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words,"
Proverbs 3:28: " Say unto thy neighbor, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when thou hast"
Proverbs 4:4: "He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live."
Proverbs 5:12: " And say, have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;"
Proverbs 7:4: " Say Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:"
Proverbs 7:13: "him, and with an impudent face said"
Proverbs 9:4: "in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith"
