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:
Proverbs 9:16: "in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith"
Proverbs 20:9: "Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?"
Proverbs 20:14: "It is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth."
Proverbs 20:22: " Say thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save"
Proverbs 22:13: "The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets."
Proverbs 23:7: "is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee."
Proverbs 24:12: "If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth"
Proverbs 24:24: " He that saith Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor"
Proverbs 24:29: " Say I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man"
Proverbs 25:7: "For it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence"
Proverbs 26:13: "The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets."
Proverbs 26:19: "that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in sport?"
Proverbs 28:24: "Whoso robbeth or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion"
Proverbs 30:9: "Lest and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor,"
Proverbs 30:15: "There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:"
Proverbs 30:16: "filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough."
Proverbs 30:20: "she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness."
Ecclesiastes 1:2: "Vanity saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity."
Ecclesiastes 1:10: "Is there whereof it may be said, whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it"
Ecclesiastes 1:16: "with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more"
Ecclesiastes 2:1: "I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy"
Ecclesiastes 2:2: " I said It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?"
Ecclesiastes 2:15: " Then said in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why"
Ecclesiastes 3:17: "I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked:"
Ecclesiastes 3:18: "I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God"
Ecclesiastes 5:6: "thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it"
Ecclesiastes 6:3: "and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than"
Ecclesiastes 7:10: " Say thou, What is the cause that the former days were"
Ecclesiastes 7:23: "have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from"
Ecclesiastes 7:27: "Behold, have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out"
Ecclesiastes 8:4: "of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest"
Ecclesiastes 8:14: "men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also"
Ecclesiastes 8:17: "find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able"
Ecclesiastes 9:16: " Then said Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom"
Ecclesiastes 10:3: "walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool."
Ecclesiastes 12:1: "not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure"
Ecclesiastes 12:8: "Vanity saith the preacher; all is vanity."
Song of Solomon 2:10: "My beloved and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away."
Song of Solomon 7:8: " I said, to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be"
Isaiah 1:11: "To what of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams,"
Isaiah 1:18: "Come and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be"
Isaiah 2:3: "And many shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain"
Isaiah 3:7: "In that shall he swear, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house"
Isaiah 3:10: " Say that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings."
Isaiah 3:16: "Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk"
Isaiah 4:1: "shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel:"
Isaiah 4:3: "in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living"
Isaiah 5:19: " That say, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One"
Isaiah 5:20: "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness"
Isaiah 6:3: "And one cried another, and said, Holy, holy, holy,"
