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 49:35: "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow"
Jeremiah 50:2: "publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded,"
Jeremiah 50:7: "them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because"
Jeremiah 50:18: "Therefore saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold,"
Jeremiah 50:33: "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah"
Jeremiah 51:1: "Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against"
Jeremiah 51:33: "For saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter"
Jeremiah 51:35: "Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,"
Jeremiah 51:35: "the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say."
Jeremiah 51:36: "Therefore saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause,"
Jeremiah 51:58: "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken,"
Jeremiah 51:61: "And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read"
Jeremiah 51:62: " Then shalt thou say, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off,"
Jeremiah 51:64: " And thou shalt say, shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from"
Lamentations 2:12: " They say Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets"
Lamentations 2:15: "the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call that men call The perfection of beauty,"
Lamentations 2:16: "thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day"
Lamentations 3:18: " And I said, and my hope is perished from the LORD:"
Lamentations 3:24: "The LORD saith my soul; therefore will I hope"
Lamentations 3:37: "Who that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?"
Lamentations 3:54: "over mine head; then I said, I am cut off."
Lamentations 3:57: "Thou drewest near that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not."
Lamentations 4:15: "they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn"
Lamentations 4:20: "was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen."
Ezekiel 2:1: " And he said me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak"
Ezekiel 2:3: " And he said me, Son of man, I send thee to"
Ezekiel 2:4: "and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus"
Ezekiel 2:4: "do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD."
Ezekiel 3:1: " Moreover he said me, Son of man, eat that thou findest;"
Ezekiel 3:3: " And he said me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels"
Ezekiel 3:4: " And he said me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house"
Ezekiel 3:10: " Moreover he said me, Son of man, all my words that"
Ezekiel 3:11: "of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord"
Ezekiel 3:11: "unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether"
Ezekiel 3:16: "that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 3:18: " When I say Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest"
Ezekiel 3:22: "was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into"
Ezekiel 3:24: "my feet, and spoke with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within"
Ezekiel 3:27: "thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord"
Ezekiel 3:27: "and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear;"
Ezekiel 4:13: "And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled"
Ezekiel 4:14: " Then said Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted:"
Ezekiel 4:15: " Then he said me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for"
Ezekiel 4:16: " Moreover he said me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread"
Ezekiel 5:5: "Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst"
Ezekiel 5:7: "Therefore saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than"
Ezekiel 5:8: "Therefore saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I,"
Ezekiel 6:1: "came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 6:3: " And say, of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus"
Ezekiel 6:3: "of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills,"
