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 18:18 - Then said and let us devise against Jeremiah devices shall not perish for the law from the priest nor counsel from the wise nor the word from the prophet and let us smite him with the tongue and let us not give heed nor the word

  • Jeremiah 19:1 - Thus saith the LORD Go and get bottle a potter's earthen and of the ancients of the people and of the ancients of the priests

  • Jeremiah 19:3 - And say Hear ye the word of the LORD O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem And say of the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Behold I will bring evil upon this place Hear shall tingle his ears

  • Jeremiah 19:11 - And shalt say And shalt say the LORD of hosts Even so as one breaketh this people and this city as one breaketh vessel a potter's that cannot be made whole again them in Tophet and they shall bury till there be no place and they shall bury

  • Jeremiah 19:14 - Then came Jeremiah from Tophet had sent of the LORD'S him to prophesy and he stood in the court house of the LORD'S and said to all the people

  • Jeremiah 19:15 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Behold I will bring and upon all her towns and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it because they have hardened their necks that they might not hear my words

  • Jeremiah 20:3 - And it came to pass on the morrow brought forth Pashur Jeremiah out of the stocks Then said Jeremiah Pashur hath not called unto him The LORD thy name but Magormissabib

  • Jeremiah 20:4 - For thus saith the LORD Behold I will make thee a terror to thyself and to all thy friends and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies and thine eyes shall behold all Judah Behold I will make into the hand of the king into Babylon and he shall carry them captive into Babylon and shall slay by the sword

  • Jeremiah 20:9 - Then I said I will not make mention of him nor speak any more in his name But his word was in mine heart fire as a burning shut up in my bones and I was weary with forbearing and I could

  • Jeremiah 20:15 - Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father saying is born child A man

  • Jeremiah 21:1 - The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD sent when king Zedekiah unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest saying

  • Jeremiah 21:3 - Then said Jeremiah Then said to Zedekiah

  • Jeremiah 21:4 - Thus saith the LORD God of Israel Behold I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans which besiege you without the walls and I will assemble them into the midst of this city

  • Jeremiah 21:8 - And unto this people Thus saith Thus saith the LORD Behold I set before and the way of life and the way of death

  • Jeremiah 21:12 - O house of David thus saith the LORD Execute in the morning judgment and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor go out like fire lest my fury and burn that none can quench it because of the evil of your doings

  • Jeremiah 21:13 - Behold I am against thee O inhabitant of the valley and rock of the plain saith the LORD which say Who shall come down against us or who shall enter into our habitations

  • Jeremiah 22:1 - Thus saith the LORD Go down to the house of the king of Judah and speak there this word

  • Jeremiah 22:2 - And say Hear the word of the LORD O king of Judah that sittest upon the throne of David thou and thy servants and thy people that enter in by these gates

  • Jeremiah 22:3 - Thus saith the LORD Execute ye judgment and righteousness and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor to the stranger the fatherless nor the widow and do no wrong do no violence blood innocent neither shed in this place

  • Jeremiah 22:6 - For thus saith the LORD house unto the king's of Judah Thou art Gilead unto me and the head of Lebanon yet surely I will make thee a wilderness and cities which are not inhabited