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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)


  • Genesis 30:16 - Thou must come in And Jacob out of the field in the evening went out and Leah to meet him and said Thou must come in I have hired I have hired mandrakes thee with my son's And he lay with her that night

  • Genesis 30:18 - said And Leah I have given God me my hire because I have given my maiden to my husband and she called his name Issachar

  • Genesis 30:20 - said And Leah hath endued God dowry me with a good now dwell will my husband with me because I have born him six sons and she called his name Zebulun

  • Genesis 30:23 - And she conceived and bare a son and said hath taken away God my reproach

  • Genesis 30:24 - And she called his name Joseph and said shall add The LORD son to me another

  • Genesis 30:25 - had born And it came to pass when Rachel Joseph said that Jacob unto Laban Send me away unto mine own place and to my country

  • Genesis 30:27 - said And Laban unto him I pray thee if I have found favour in thine eyes tarry for I have learned by experience hath blessed that the LORD me for thy sake

  • Genesis 30:28 - And he said Appoint me thy wages and I will give

  • Genesis 30:29 - And he said unto him Thou knowest how I have served how thy cattle

  • Genesis 30:31 - And he said Thou shalt not give And he said And Jacob Thou shalt not give me any thing if thou wilt do this thing for me I will again feed thy flock and keep

  • Genesis 30:34 - said And Laban Behold I would it might be according to thy word

  • Genesis 31:1 - And he heard the words sons of Laban's saying hath taken away Jacob all that was our father's all that was our father's hath he gotten all this glory

  • Genesis 31:3 - said And the LORD unto Jacob Return unto the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred

  • Genesis 31:5 - And said unto them I see countenance of my father that it is not toward me as before but the God of my father hath been

  • Genesis 31:8 - If he said speckled shall be thy hire bare all the cattle speckled If he said ringstraked shall be thy hire bare all the cattle ringstraked

  • Genesis 31:11 - And I said And the angel of God unto me in a dream saying Jacob And I said

  • Genesis 31:12 - And he said Lift up now thine eyes and see all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked speckled and grisled and see all that Laban doeth

  • Genesis 31:14 - answered And Rachel and Leah and said unto him Is there yet any portion or inheritance house for us in our father's

  • Genesis 31:16 - For all the riches hath taken now then whatsoever God from our father that is ours and our children's hath said now then whatsoever God unto thee do

  • Genesis 31:24 - came And God to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night and said unto him Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad