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;
Genesis 11:4 - And they said Go to let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven and let us make us a name lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth
Genesis 11:6 - said And the LORD Behold the people and they have all one language and they have all one and this they begin to do and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do
Genesis 12:1 - had said Now the LORD unto Abram of thy country and from thy kindred house and from thy father's of thy country that I will shew
Genesis 12:7 - appeared And the LORD unto Abram and said Unto thy seed will I give land this and there builded he an altar And the LORD appeared
Genesis 12:11 - And it came to pass when he was come near to enter into Egypt that he said unto Sarai his wife Behold now I know his wife that thou art a fair to look upon
Genesis 12:12 - shall see Therefore it shall come to pass when the Egyptians thee that they shall say This is his wife and they will kill me but they will save thee alive
Genesis 12:13 - Say I pray thee thou art my sister that it may be well shall live with me for thy sake and my soul because of thee
Genesis 12:18 - called And Pharaoh Abram and said What is this that thou hast done unto me why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife
Genesis 12:19 - Why saidst thou She is my sister so I might have taken her to me to wife her to me to wife so I might have taken
Genesis 13:8 - said And Abram unto Lot no Let there be strife I pray thee between me and thee and between my herdmen I pray thee between me and thee and between my herdmen be brethren
Genesis 13:14 - And the LORD said unto Abram after was separated that Lot from him Lift up now thine eyes and look from the place where thou art northward and southward and eastward and westward
Genesis 14:19 - And he blessed him and said And he blessed be Abram God of the most high possessor of heaven and earth
Genesis 14:21 - said And the king of Sodom unto Abram Give me the persons the goods and take
Genesis 14:22 - said And Abram to the king of Sodom I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD God the most high the possessor of heaven and earth
Genesis 14:23 - That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet That I will not take any thing that is thine lest thou shouldest say I have made Abram
Genesis 15:1 - After the word came the word of the LORD not Abram in a vision saying Fear not Abram I am thy shield reward great and thy exceeding
Genesis 15:2 - said And Abram Lord GOD what wilt thou give me seeing I go childless and the steward of my house is this of Damascus Eliezer
Genesis 15:3 - said And Abram no Behold to me thou hast given seed and lo one born in my house is mine heir
Genesis 15:4 - And behold the word of the LORD came unto him saying This shall not be thine heir but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels This shall not be thine heir
Genesis 15:5 - And he brought him forth abroad and said Look now toward heaven and tell the stars if thou be able and tell and said unto him So shall thy seed