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 35:1 - said And God unto Jacob Arise go up to Bethel and dwell there and make there an altar unto God that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother

  • Genesis 35:2 - said Then Jacob unto his household and to all that were with him Put away gods the strange that are among you and be clean and change your garments

  • Genesis 35:10 - said And God his name any more Jacob and he called his name any more Jacob Israel his name and he called his name Israel

  • Genesis 35:11 - said And God unto him I am God Almighty be fruitful and multiply a nation and a company a nation shall be of thee and kings out of thy loins shall come

  • Genesis 35:17 - And it came to pass when she was in hard labour said labour unto her Fear not thou shalt have this son

  • Genesis 37:6 - And he said unto them Hear which I have dreamed I pray you this dream

  • Genesis 37:8 - said And his brethren reign reign have dominion have dominion him yet the more over us And they hated for his dreams and for his words

  • Genesis 37:9 - And he dreamed a dream yet another and told it his brethren and said And he dreamed a dream more and behold the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance

  • Genesis 37:10 - And he told and his father and thy brethren rebuked and his father him and said unto him What is this dream that thou hast dreamed come come Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth

  • Genesis 37:13 - said And Israel unto Joseph Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem and I will send thee said

  • Genesis 37:14 - And he said I pray thee see and well with thy brethren and well with the flocks again me word So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron and he came to Shechem

  • Genesis 37:15 - found him and behold he was wandering in the field asked him saying What seekest

  • Genesis 37:16 - And he said my brethren I seek tell me I pray thee where they feed

  • Genesis 37:17 - said And the man They are departed hence for I heard said them in Dothan And Joseph after his brethren and found them in Dothan

  • Genesis 37:19 - And they said one to another dreamer Behold this cometh

  • Genesis 37:20 - now therefore and let us slay him and cast him into some pit and we will say beast Some evil hath devoured him and we shall see what will become of his dreams

  • Genesis 37:21 - heard And Reuben it and he delivered him out of their hands and said Let us not kill

  • Genesis 37:22 - said And Reuben unto them Shed no blood but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness him out of their hands and lay upon him that he might rid him out of their hands again him to his father

  • Genesis 37:26 - said And Judah our brother What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood

  • Genesis 37:30 - And he returned unto his brethren and said The child is not and I whither shall I go