Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H559: אָמַר (ʼâmar) Definition

Strong's number
H559
Lemma
אָמַר
Transliteration
ʼâmar
Pronunciation
aw-mar'
Strong's definition
to say (used with great latitude) answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, [phrase] (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, [idiom] desire, determine, [idiom] expressly, [idiom] indeed, [idiom] intend, name, [idiom] plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), [idiom] still, [idiom] suppose, talk, tell, term, [idiom] that is, [idiom] think, use (speech), utter, [idiom] verily, [idiom] yet. a primitive root;

4308 instances of the word אָמַר ʼâmar (H559)


  • Ezra 4:3 - said But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel unto them Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house God but we ourselves together unto them Ye have nothing to do with us to build unto the LORD God of Israel hath commanded as king Cyrus as king of Persia

  • Ezra 8:22 - For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way because we had spoken of the king because we had spoken The hand of our God that seek is upon all them for good him but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake

  • Ezra 8:28 - And I said are holy unto the LORD the vessels are holy also and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers

  • Ezra 9:1 - Now when these things were done came the princes to me saying have not separated The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites The people of the lands doing according to their abominations even of the Canaanites the Hittites the Perizzites the Jebusites the Ammonites the Moabites the Egyptians and the Amorites

  • Ezra 9:6 - And said O my God I am ashamed and blush to lift up O my God my face for our iniquities are increased over our head and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens

  • Ezra 9:10 - what shall we say And now O our God after this for we have forsaken thy commandments

  • Ezra 9:11 - Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets saying The land unto which ye go to possess The land it is an unclean it is an unclean of the people The land with their abominations which have filled it from one end it from one end with their uncleanness

  • Ezra 10:2 - answered And Shechaniah one of the sons of Jehiel one of the sons of Elam and said unto Ezra We have trespassed against our God and have taken wives strange of the people of the land yet now there is hope in Israel

  • Ezra 10:10 - stood up And Ezra the priest and said unto them Ye have transgressed and have taken wives strange to increase the trespass of Israel

  • Ezra 10:12 - answered Then all the congregation and said voice with a loud As thou hast said so must we do

  • Genesis 1:3 - said And God Let there be and there was light Let there be and there was light

  • Genesis 1:6 - said And God Let there be a firmament in the midst from the waters and let it divide from the waters from the waters

  • Genesis 1:9 - said And God be gathered together Let the waters under the heaven unto place one land appear and let the dry

  • Genesis 1:11 - said And God bring forth Let the earth grass the herb yielding seed tree and the fruit yielding and the fruit after his kind whose seed Let the earth

  • Genesis 1:14 - said And God Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide and for days from the night and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years

  • Genesis 1:20 - said And God bring forth abundantly Let the waters the moving creature that hath life and fowl that may fly above the earth above in the open firmament of heaven

  • Genesis 1:22 - blessed And God them saying Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas and let fowl and multiply in the earth

  • Genesis 1:24 - said And God bring forth Let the earth creature and beast after his kind cattle and creeping thing and beast Let the earth after his kind

  • Genesis 1:26 - said And God Let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth and over all the earth

  • Genesis 1:28 - blessed And God said And God unto them Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveth the earth