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)


  • Genesis 32:20 - And say ye moreover Behold thy servant Jacob and afterward And say ye I will appease before me with the present that goeth before me and afterward I will see before me peradventure he will accept before me

  • Genesis 32:26 - And he said I will not let thee go breaketh for the day And he said I will not let thee go except thou bless

  • Genesis 32:27 - And he said unto him What is thy name And he said Jacob

  • Genesis 32:28 - And he said no more Jacob And he said Thy name but Israel for as a prince hast thou power with God and hast prevailed

  • Genesis 32:29 - asked And Jacob And he said Tell after my name And he said Wherefore is it asked after my name And he blessed

  • Genesis 33:5 - And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women The children and said Who are those and said The children hath graciously given which God thy servant

  • Genesis 33:8 - And he said What meanest thou by all this drove which I met And he said These are to find grace in the sight of my lord

  • Genesis 33:9 - said And Esau I have enough my brother

  • Genesis 33:10 - said And Jacob Nay I pray thee if now I have found grace in thy sight then receive my present at my hand as though I had seen the face as though I had seen the face of God and thou wast pleased with me

  • Genesis 33:12 - And he said Let us take our journey

  • Genesis 33:13 - And he said unto him My lord knoweth that the children are tender all the flock and herds with young are with me and if men should overdrive day them one will die all the flock

  • Genesis 33:15 - said And Esau Let me now leave with thee some of the folk said What needeth it let me find grace in the sight of my lord

  • Genesis 34:4 - saying Hamor unto his father saying Get me this damsel to wife

  • Genesis 34:8 - communed And Hamor with them saying of my son longeth The soul for your daughter I pray you give her him to wife

  • Genesis 34:11 - and what ye shall say unto her father and unto her brethren Let me find grace in your eyes and what ye shall say unto me I will give

  • Genesis 34:12 - Ask me never so much dowry and gift and I will give according as ye shall say and I will give me the damsel to wife

  • Genesis 34:14 - And they said unto them We cannot do this thing to give our sister that is uncircumcised for that were a reproach

  • Genesis 34:20 - came And Hamor his son unto the gate of their city and communed with the men of their city saying

  • Genesis 34:30 - said And Jacob to Simeon and Levi Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land among the Canaanites and the Perizzites and I being few in number they shall gather themselves together against me and slay me and I shall be destroyed I and my house

  • Genesis 34:31 - And they said as with an harlot Should he deal with our sister