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 14:15: "Therefore saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name,"
Jeremiah 14:15: "sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be"
Jeremiah 14:17: " Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears"
Jeremiah 15:1: " Then said unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before"
Jeremiah 15:2: "And it shall come to pass, they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell"
Jeremiah 15:2: "unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD;"
Jeremiah 15:2: "shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death,"
Jeremiah 15:11: "The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily"
Jeremiah 15:19: "Therefore saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand"
Jeremiah 16:1: "came also unto me, saying,"
Jeremiah 16:3: "For saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters"
Jeremiah 16:5: "For saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning,"
Jeremiah 16:9: "For saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold,"
Jeremiah 16:10: "all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD"
Jeremiah 16:11: " Then shalt thou say them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD,"
Jeremiah 16:14: "the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up"
Jeremiah 16:19: "unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited"
Jeremiah 17:5: "Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man,"
Jeremiah 17:15: "Behold, say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come"
Jeremiah 17:19: "Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children"
Jeremiah 17:20: " And say them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all"
Jeremiah 17:21: "Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden"
Jeremiah 18:1: "Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,"
Jeremiah 18:5: "came to me, saying,"
Jeremiah 18:10: "of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit"
Jeremiah 18:11: "Now to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants"
Jeremiah 18:11: "and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold,"
Jeremiah 18:11: "of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame"
Jeremiah 18:12: " And they said, but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do"
Jeremiah 18:13: "Therefore saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who"
Jeremiah 18:18: " Then said and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law"
Jeremiah 19:1: "Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle,"
Jeremiah 19:3: " And say, ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem;"
Jeremiah 19:3: "and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;"
Jeremiah 19:11: " And shalt say them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break"
Jeremiah 19:11: "And shalt say them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break"
Jeremiah 19:14: "him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's house; and said to all"
Jeremiah 19:15: "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring"
Jeremiah 20:3: "Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD"
Jeremiah 20:4: "For saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all"
Jeremiah 20:9: " Then I said, make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was"
Jeremiah 20:15: "brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad."
Jeremiah 21:1: "and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,"
Jeremiah 21:3: " Then said unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:"
Jeremiah 21:3: "unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:"
Jeremiah 21:4: "Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back"
Jeremiah 21:8: "And unto people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold,"
Jeremiah 21:8: "people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before"
Jeremiah 21:12: "O house thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning,"
Jeremiah 21:13: "of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who"
