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:
Jeremiah 2:5: "Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that"
Jeremiah 2:6: "Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land"
Jeremiah 2:8: "The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew"
Jeremiah 2:20: "I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when"
Jeremiah 2:23: "How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim?"
Jeremiah 2:25: "from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no;"
Jeremiah 2:27: " Saying Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for"
Jeremiah 2:27: "their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save"
Jeremiah 2:31: "a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no"
Jeremiah 2:35: " Yet thou sayest, I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold,"
Jeremiah 2:35: "me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned."
Jeremiah 3:1: " They say, a man put away his wife, and she go from"
Jeremiah 3:6: "The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which"
Jeremiah 3:7: " And I said she had done all these things, Turn thou unto"
Jeremiah 3:11: "And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous"
Jeremiah 3:12: "these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith"
Jeremiah 3:16: "days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant"
Jeremiah 3:19: "But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land,"
Jeremiah 3:19: "heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away"
Jeremiah 4:3: "For saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up"
Jeremiah 4:5: "and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry,"
Jeremiah 4:5: "in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defensed"
Jeremiah 4:10: " Then said Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this"
Jeremiah 4:10: "thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword"
Jeremiah 4:11: "At that shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind"
Jeremiah 4:27: "For hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate;"
Jeremiah 5:2: "And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely."
Jeremiah 5:4: "Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know"
Jeremiah 5:12: "They have belied and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come"
Jeremiah 5:14: "Wherefore saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak"
Jeremiah 5:19: "And it shall come to pass, ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God"
Jeremiah 5:19: "our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken"
Jeremiah 5:20: "of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,"
Jeremiah 5:24: "Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God,"
Jeremiah 6:6: "hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount"
Jeremiah 6:9: "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel"
Jeremiah 6:14: "the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no"
Jeremiah 6:15: "among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 6:16: "Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask"
Jeremiah 6:16: "and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk"
Jeremiah 6:17: "you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken."
Jeremiah 6:21: "Therefore saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before"
Jeremiah 6:22: "Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country,"
Jeremiah 7:1: "Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,"
Jeremiah 7:2: "this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all"
Jeremiah 7:3: "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways"
Jeremiah 7:4: "in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD,"
Jeremiah 7:10: "is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do"
Jeremiah 7:20: "Therefore saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury"
Jeremiah 7:21: "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings"
