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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 26:9: "in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh,"
Jeremiah 26:11: " Then spoke and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people,"
Jeremiah 26:11: "and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die;"
Jeremiah 26:12: " Then spoke unto all the princes and to all the people,"
Jeremiah 26:12: "and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against"
Jeremiah 26:16: " Then said and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets;"
Jeremiah 26:17: "of the elders of the land, and spoke to all the assembly"
Jeremiah 26:17: "to all the assembly of the people, saying,"
Jeremiah 26:18: "in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people"
Jeremiah 26:18: "to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD"
Jeremiah 26:18: "the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion"
Jeremiah 27:1: "Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,"
Jeremiah 27:2: "Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put"
Jeremiah 27:4: "And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts,"
Jeremiah 27:4: "unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;"
Jeremiah 27:4: "the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;"
Jeremiah 27:9: "nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not"
Jeremiah 27:9: "which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve"
Jeremiah 27:12: "according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke"
Jeremiah 27:14: "unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve"
Jeremiah 27:14: "of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king"
Jeremiah 27:16: "all this people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken"
Jeremiah 27:16: "people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to"
Jeremiah 27:16: "the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house"
Jeremiah 27:19: "For saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning"
Jeremiah 27:21: "Yea, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning"
Jeremiah 28:1: "the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spoke unto me in the house of the LORD,"
Jeremiah 28:1: "in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,"
Jeremiah 28:2: "Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken"
Jeremiah 28:2: "of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king"
Jeremiah 28:5: "Then the prophet said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests,"
Jeremiah 28:6: "Even the prophet said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD"
Jeremiah 28:11: "And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith"
Jeremiah 28:11: "in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so"
Jeremiah 28:11: "the people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break"
Jeremiah 28:12: "from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,"
Jeremiah 28:13: "Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD;"
Jeremiah 28:13: "Go Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD;"
Jeremiah 28:13: "Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes"
Jeremiah 28:14: "For saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put"
Jeremiah 28:15: " Then said Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now,"
Jeremiah 28:16: "Therefore saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off"
Jeremiah 29:3: "Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,"
Jeremiah 29:4: "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives,"
Jeremiah 29:8: "For saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not"
Jeremiah 29:10: "For saith the LORD, That after seventy years"
Jeremiah 29:15: "Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;"
Jeremiah 29:16: "Know that saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon"
Jeremiah 29:17: "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword,"
Jeremiah 29:21: "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab"









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