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 31:26 - said And Laban to Jacob What hast thou done that thou hast stolen away unawares to me and carried away my daughters as captives taken with the sword
Genesis 31:29 - It is in the power of my hand to do or bad but the God of your father unto me yesternight saying saying Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad
Genesis 31:31 - answered And Jacob and said to Laban Because I was afraid and said Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters
Genesis 31:35 - And she said to her father Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee for the custom of women is upon me And he searched but found not the images
Genesis 31:36 - was wroth And Jacob and chode to Laban answered And Jacob and said to Laban What is my trespass what is my sin that thou hast so hotly pursued after me
Genesis 31:43 - answered And Laban and said unto Jacob These daughters These daughters and these children and these children and these cattle and these cattle and all that thou seest These daughters is mine and what can I do this day or and these children which they have born
Genesis 31:46 - said And Jacob unto his brethren Gather stones and they took stones and made an heap and they did eat an heap
Genesis 31:48 - said And Laban This heap is a witness between me and thee this day of it called Therefore was the name Galeed
Genesis 31:49 - And Mizpah for he said watch The LORD between me and thee when we are absent from another
Genesis 31:51 - said And Laban to Jacob Behold this heap and behold this pillar which I have cast
Genesis 32:2 - he said And when Jacob saw them host This is God's and he called the name of that place Mahanaim
Genesis 32:4 - And he commanded Thus shall ye speak Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau Thus shall ye speak Thy servant Jacob with Laban thus I have sojourned and stayed there
Genesis 32:6 - returned And the messengers to Jacob saying We came to thy brother Esau and also he cometh to meet thee and four hundred men
Genesis 32:8 - And said come If Esau company to the one and smite it company which is left shall escape
Genesis 32:9 - said And Jacob O God of my father Abraham O God of my father Isaac the LORD said unto me Return unto thy country and to thy kindred and I will deal well
Genesis 32:12 - And thou saidst I will surely I will surely and make thy seed as the sand of the sea which cannot be numbered for multitude
Genesis 32:16 - And he delivered them into the hand of his servants drove drove by themselves and said of his servants Pass over before me a space and put and drove and drove
Genesis 32:17 - And he commanded the foremost saying meeteth thee When Esau my brother and asketh thee saying thou and whose are these before
Genesis 32:18 - Then thou shalt say They be thy servant Jacob's it is a present sent unto my lord Esau and behold also he is behind us
Genesis 32:19 - commanded he And so the second And so and the third And so and all that followed the droves saying On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau when ye find