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 47:31 - And he said Swear Swear bowed unto him And Israel head himself upon the bed's

  • Genesis 48:1 - And it came to pass after these things that one told Joseph Behold thy father is sick and he took with him his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim

  • Genesis 48:2 - And one told Jacob and said Behold thy son Joseph cometh strengthened unto thee and Israel himself and sat upon the bed

  • Genesis 48:3 - said And Jacob unto Joseph God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed

  • Genesis 48:4 - And said unto me Behold I will make thee fruitful and multiply and will give of thee a multitude of people and will give this land to thy seed after thee possession for an everlasting

  • Genesis 48:8 - beheld And Israel sons Joseph's and said

  • Genesis 48:9 - me in this place And he said And Joseph unto his father They are my sons hath given whom God me in this place And he said Bring them I pray thee unto me and I will bless

  • Genesis 48:11 - said And Israel unto Joseph hath shewed thy face I had not thought hath shewed and lo God me also thy seed

  • Genesis 48:15 - And he blessed Joseph and said God did walk whom my fathers before Abraham and Isaac God which fed me all my life long unto this day

  • Genesis 48:18 - said And Joseph Not so my father Not so my father for this is the firstborn put thy right hand upon his head

  • Genesis 48:19 - refused And his father and said I know it my son I know it he also shall become a people and he also shall be great but truly brother his younger and he also shall be great than he and his seed shall become a multitude of nations

  • Genesis 48:20 - And he blessed them that day saying And he blessed In thee shall Israel saying and he set God Ephraim Manasseh and he set Ephraim before Manasseh

  • Genesis 48:21 - said And Israel unto Joseph Behold I die but God shall be with you and bring you again unto the land of your fathers

  • Genesis 49:1 - called And Jacob unto his sons and said Gather yourselves together that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days

  • Genesis 49:29 - And he charged them and said unto them I am to be gathered unto my people bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite

  • Genesis 50:4 - were past And when the days of his mourning spake Joseph unto the house of Pharaoh saying If now I have found grace in your eyes spake I pray you in the ears of Pharaoh saying

  • Genesis 50:5 - My father made me swear saying Lo I die in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan I pray thee and bury Now therefore let me go up I pray thee and bury My father and I will come again

  • Genesis 50:6 - said And Pharaoh Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear

  • Genesis 50:11 - saw And when the inhabitants of the land the Canaanites mourning in the floor of Atad they said mourning This is a grievous was called wherefore the name of it Abelmizraim which is beyond Jordan

  • Genesis 50:15 - saw brethren And when Joseph's was dead that their father they said will peradventure hate us And when Joseph's and will certainly and will certainly us all the evil which we did