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 24:5 - Thus saith the LORD the God of Israel figs Like these good so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans Like these good

  • Jeremiah 24:8 - figs And as the evil which cannot be eaten they are so evil surely thus saith the LORD So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah and his princes and the residue of Jerusalem that remain in the land and them that dwell in the land of Egypt

  • Jeremiah 25:2 - spake The which Jeremiah the prophet unto all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying

  • Jeremiah 25:5 - They said Turn ye again now every one way from his evil and from the evil of your doings and dwell in the land hath given that the LORD unto you and to your fathers and ever for and ever

  • Jeremiah 25:8 - Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts Because ye have not heard my words

  • Jeremiah 25:15 - For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me Take cup the wine of this fury at my hand thee to drink and cause all the nations to whom I send

  • Jeremiah 25:27 - Therefore thou shalt say Therefore thou shalt say the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Drink ye and be drunken and spue and fall and rise no more because of the sword which I will send

  • Jeremiah 25:28 - And it shall be if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand Ye shall certainly then shalt thou say then shalt thou say the LORD of hosts Ye shall certainly Ye shall certainly

  • Jeremiah 25:30 - Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words and say unto them The LORD from on high he shall mightily habitation from his holy and utter his voice he shall mightily he shall mightily upon his habitation a shout as they that tread he shall give the grapes against all the inhabitants of the earth

  • Jeremiah 25:32 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts Behold evil shall go forth from nation from nation whirlwind and a great shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth

  • Jeremiah 26:1 - In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD saying

  • Jeremiah 26:2 - Thus saith in the LORD'S Stand in the court house in the LORD'S and speak unto all the cities of Judah which come to worship house in the LORD'S all the words that I command and speak unto them diminish all the words

  • Jeremiah 26:4 - And thou shalt say And thou shalt say the LORD If ye will not hearken in my law which I have set before

  • Jeremiah 26:8 - had made an end Now it came to pass when Jeremiah him to speak had commanded all that the LORD him to speak and all the people took that the priests and the prophets and all the people him saying Thou shalt surely Thou shalt surely

  • Jeremiah 26:9 - Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD saying shall be like Shiloh This house and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant were gathered And all the people against Jeremiah This house of the LORD

  • Jeremiah 26:11 - Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people Then spake is worthy to die This man for he hath prophesied against this city as ye have heard with your ears

  • Jeremiah 26:12 - Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people Then spake The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard

  • Jeremiah 26:16 - Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets This man is not worthy to die to us in the name of the LORD our God for he hath spoken

  • Jeremiah 26:17 - Then rose up certain of the elders of the land and spake to all the assembly of the people and spake

  • Jeremiah 26:18 - Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah Thus saith to all the people of Judah Thus saith Thus saith the LORD of hosts Zion like a field shall be plowed and Jerusalem shall become heaps and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest