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)


  • Jeremiah 1:4 - Then the word of the LORD came unto me saying

  • Jeremiah 1:6 - Then said I Ah Lord GOD behold I cannot speak for I am a child

  • Jeremiah 1:7 - said But the LORD said not I am a child to all that I shall send thee and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak

  • Jeremiah 1:9 - put forth And the LORD his hand and touched in thy mouth said And the LORD unto me Behold I have put my words in thy mouth

  • Jeremiah 1:11 - Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying I see Jeremiah came unto me saying a rod of an almond tree I see

  • Jeremiah 1:12 - Then said the LORD unto me Thou hast well seen for I will hasten my word to perform

  • Jeremiah 1:13 - And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time saying I see saying pot a seething I see and the face and the face the north

  • Jeremiah 1:14 - said Then the LORD unto me Out of the north shall break forth an evil upon all the inhabitants of the land

  • Jeremiah 2:1 - Moreover the word of the LORD came to me saying

  • Jeremiah 2:2 - Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem Thus saith Thus saith the LORD I remember thee the kindness of thy youth the love of thine espousals Go after me in the wilderness in a land that was not sown

  • Jeremiah 2:5 - Thus saith the LORD found have your fathers What iniquity in me that they are gone far after vanity and are become vain

  • Jeremiah 2:6 - Neither said they Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt us through the wilderness out of the land of deserts and of pits out of the land of drought and of the shadow of death out of the land passed through that no man dwelt and where no man

  • Jeremiah 2:8 - The priests said not Where is the LORD and they that handle the law knew me not the pastors also transgressed against me and the prophets prophesied by Baal after things that do not profit and walked

  • Jeremiah 2:20 - For of old time I have broken thy yoke and burst thy bands and thou saidst I will not transgress hill when upon every high tree and under every green thou wanderest playing the harlot

  • Jeremiah 2:23 - How canst thou say I am not polluted after Baalim I have not gone see her ways in the valley know what thou hast done dromedary thou art a swift traversing her ways

  • Jeremiah 2:25 - Withhold thy foot from being unshod and thy throat from thirst but thou saidst There is no hope no for I have loved strangers and after

  • Jeremiah 2:27 - Saying to a stock Thou art my father and to a stone Thou hast brought me forth for they have turned their back unto me and not their face but in the time of their trouble Saying Arise and save

  • Jeremiah 2:31 - O generation see ye the word of the LORD Have I been a wilderness unto Israel a land of darkness wherefore say my people We are lords we will come

  • Jeremiah 2:35 - Yet thou sayest Because I am innocent shall turn surely his anger from me Behold I will plead Yet thou sayest I have not sinned

  • Jeremiah 3:1 - They say put away If a man his wife and she go If a man from him and become another shall he return unto her again be greatly be greatly shall not that land but thou hast played the harlot lovers with many shall he return unto her again to me saith the LORD