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:
Genesis 31:43: "And Laban and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children"
Genesis 31:46: "And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made"
Genesis 31:48: "And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore"
Genesis 31:49: "And Mizpah; he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent"
Genesis 31:51: "And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar,"
Genesis 32:2: "And when saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called"
Genesis 32:4: "And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob"
Genesis 32:4: "And he commanded Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob"
Genesis 32:4: "Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban,"
Genesis 32:6: "to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau,"
Genesis 32:8: " And said, Esau come to the one company, and smite"
Genesis 32:9: "And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac,"
Genesis 32:9: "of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred,"
Genesis 32:12: "And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed"
Genesis 32:16: "of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over"
Genesis 32:17: "And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth"
Genesis 32:17: "my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest"
Genesis 32:18: " Then thou shalt say, Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau:"
Genesis 32:19: "all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak"
Genesis 32:20: " And say Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said,"
Genesis 32:20: "Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth"
Genesis 32:26: " And he said, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go,"
Genesis 32:26: "for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except"
Genesis 32:27: " And he said him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob."
Genesis 32:27: "him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob."
Genesis 32:28: " And he said, shall be called no more Jacob, but"
Genesis 32:28: "And he said, shall be called no more Jacob, but"
Genesis 32:29: "And Jacob him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore"
Genesis 32:29: "Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?"
Genesis 33:5: "the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children"
Genesis 33:5: "and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given"
Genesis 33:8: " And he said, meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said,"
Genesis 33:8: "drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord."
Genesis 33:9: "And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that"
Genesis 33:10: "And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace"
Genesis 33:12: " And he said, and let us go, and I will go before"
Genesis 33:13: " And he said him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks"
Genesis 33:15: "And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that"
Genesis 33:15: "the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace"
Genesis 34:4: "And Shechem spoke unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me"
Genesis 34:4: "unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel"
Genesis 34:8: "And Hamor with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth"
Genesis 34:11: "And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace"
Genesis 34:11: "grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give."
Genesis 34:12: "dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me"
Genesis 34:14: " And they said them, We cannot do this thing, to give"
Genesis 34:20: "with the men of their city, saying,"
Genesis 34:30: "And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants"
Genesis 34:31: " And they said, our sister as with an harlot?"
Genesis 35:1: "And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell"
