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 45:28 - said And Israel It is enough Joseph my son is yet alive and see him before I die

  • Genesis 46:2 - And he said And God unto Israel in the visions of the night And he said Jacob Jacob And he said

  • Genesis 46:3 - And he said I am God the God of thy father fear not to go down into Egypt nation of thee a great for I will there make

  • Genesis 46:30 - said And Israel unto Joseph let me die Now since I have seen thy face because thou art yet alive

  • Genesis 46:31 - and say And Joseph unto him My brethren house and my father's I will go up and shew Pharaoh and say unto him My brethren house and my father's which were in the land of Canaan are come

  • Genesis 46:33 - shall call And it shall come to pass when Pharaoh you and shall say What is your occupation

  • Genesis 46:34 - That ye shall say trade hath been about cattle Thy servants from our youth even until now both we and also our fathers that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen is an abomination unto the Egyptians for every shepherd

  • Genesis 47:1 - and all that they have are come out Then Joseph and told Pharaoh and said My father and my brethren and their flocks and their herds and all that they have are come out and behold they are in the land of Canaan and behold they are in the land of Goshen

  • Genesis 47:3 - And they said And Pharaoh unto his brethren What is your occupation And they said And Pharaoh are shepherds Thy servants both we and also our fathers

  • Genesis 47:4 - They said moreover unto Pharaoh For to sojourn in the land are we come have no pasture for their flocks for thy servants is sore for the famine in the land of Canaan dwell for thy servants in the land of Goshen

  • Genesis 47:5 - saying And Pharaoh unto Joseph saying Thy father and thy brethren are come

  • Genesis 47:8 - said And Pharaoh unto Jacob How old

  • Genesis 47:9 - said And Jacob unto Pharaoh The days of the years of my pilgrimage and thirty are an hundred of the years few and evil The days of the years of my life been and have not attained The days of the years of my life of my fathers The days of my pilgrimage

  • Genesis 47:15 - failed And when money and in the land all the Egyptians and in the land of Canaan came all the Egyptians unto Joseph and said Give us bread for why should we die faileth And when money

  • Genesis 47:16 - said And Joseph Give you for your cattle and I will give you for your cattle fail if money

  • Genesis 47:18 - is spent When that year they came also hath When that year unto him the second and said unto him We will not hide it from my lord is spent how that our money our herds of cattle also hath it from my lord there is not ought left in the sight it from my lord but our bodies and our lands

  • Genesis 47:23 - said Then Joseph unto the people Behold I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh lo here is seed for you and ye shall sow and your land

  • Genesis 47:25 - And they said Thou hast saved our lives let us find grace in the sight of my lord servants and we will be Pharaoh's

  • Genesis 47:29 - drew nigh And the time that Israel must die and he called his son Joseph and said unto him If now I have found grace in thy sight put I pray thee thy hand under my thigh and deal kindly and truly with me bury me not I pray thee in Egypt

  • Genesis 47:30 - But I will lie with my fathers and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their buryingplace And he said I will do as thou hast said