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;
1 Kings 20:5 - came again And the messengers Thus speaketh Thus speaketh Benhadad Thus speaketh Although I have sent Thus speaketh me thy silver and thy gold and thy wives and thy children Thou shalt deliver
1 Kings 20:7 - called Then the king of Israel all the elders of the land and said Mark I pray you and see mischief how this man seeketh for he sent unto me for my wives and for my children and for my silver and for my gold and I denied
1 Kings 20:8 - said And all the elders and all the people unto him Hearken not unto him nor consent
1 Kings 20:9 - Tell And the messengers of Benhadad Tell my lord the king All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do but this thing I may I will do And the messengers again but this thing
1 Kings 20:10 - sent And Benhadad unto him and said do so The gods unto me and more also shall suffice if the dust of Samaria for handfuls for all the people that follow
1 Kings 20:11 - answered And the king of Israel and said Tell on his harness boast him Let not him that girdeth himself as he that putteth it off
1 Kings 20:12 - And it came to pass when Benhadad heard this message as he was drinking he and the kings in the pavilions that he said unto his servants Set Set themselves in array against the city
1 Kings 20:13 - prophet a And behold there came unto Ahab king of Israel Thus saith Thus saith that I am the LORD Hast thou seen multitude all this great behold I will deliver it into thine hand this day and thou shalt know that I am the LORD
1 Kings 20:14 - And he answered And Ahab And he answered And he answered the LORD Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces And he answered Who shall order the battle And he answered
1 Kings 20:17 - come out And the young men of the princes of the provinces first sent out and Benhadad and they told him saying There are men come out of Samaria
1 Kings 20:18 - And he said for peace Whether they be come out take them alive for war Whether they be come out them alive take
1 Kings 20:22 - came And the prophet the king of Israel and said strengthen thyself and mark and see what thou doest for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up
1 Kings 20:23 - And the servants of the king of Syria said are gods of the hills are gods therefore they were stronger than we but let us fight against them in the plain and surely therefore they were stronger
1 Kings 20:28 - And there came a man but he is not God Thus saith unto the king of Israel Thus saith Thus saith The LORD Thus saith Because the Syrians but he is not God of the hills The LORD but he is not God of the valleys therefore will I deliver multitude all this great into thine hand and ye shall know The LORD
1 Kings 20:31 - said And his servants unto him Behold now we have heard kings of the house of Israel kings are merciful let us I pray thee put sackcloth on our loins and ropes upon our heads and go out kings of Israel peradventure he will save thy life
1 Kings 20:32 - So they girded sackcloth on their loins and put ropes on their heads and came to the king of Israel And he said Thy servant Benhadad And he said I pray thee let me live And he said Is he yet alive he is my brother
1 Kings 20:33 - did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him and did hastily catch Then he said Thy brother Benhadad Then he said Go ye bring came forth Benhadad to him and he caused him to come up into the chariot
1 Kings 20:34 - And Benhadad said unto him The cities took as my father as my father I will restore streets and thou shalt make for thee in Damascus and thou shalt make as my father in Samaria a covenant Then said Ahab I will send thee away So he made a covenant Then said Ahab I will send thee away
1 Kings 20:35 - man And a certain of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of the LORD Smite refused man Smite
1 Kings 20:36 - Then said he unto him Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD behold as soon as thou art departed him and slew a lion behold as soon as thou art departed from him found a lion him and slew