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 34:12 - Therefore the word from the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying

  • Jeremiah 34:13 - Thus saith the LORD the God of Israel I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondmen Thus saith

  • Jeremiah 34:17 - Therefore thus saith the LORD Ye have not hearkened behold I proclaim a liberty and every man to his brother and every man to his neighbour behold I proclaim a liberty for you saith the LORD to the sword to the pestilence and to the famine and I will make into all the kingdoms of the earth

  • Jeremiah 35:1 - The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah saying

  • Jeremiah 35:5 - And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine and cups and I said unto them Drink of wine

  • Jeremiah 35:6 - But they said We will drink no wine for Jonadab neither ye nor your sons of Rechab our father commanded But they said We will drink no wine neither ye nor your sons for ever

  • Jeremiah 35:11 - came up But it came to pass when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon into the land that we said Come Come at Jerusalem and for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and for fear of the army of the Syrians so we dwell at Jerusalem

  • Jeremiah 35:12 - Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah saying

  • Jeremiah 35:13 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Go Thus saith the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words saith the LORD

  • Jeremiah 35:15 - I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets rising up early I have sent them saying Return ye now every man way from his evil and amend your doings not after gods other to serve them and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers but ye have not inclined your ear nor hearkened

  • Jeremiah 35:17 - Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts God of Israel Behold I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil against them because I have spoken against them because I have spoken unto them but they have not heard and I have called unto them but they have not answered

  • Jeremiah 35:18 - unto the house of the Rechabites Thus saith And Jeremiah Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Because ye have obeyed all his precepts of Jonadab your father and kept all his precepts and done according unto all that he hath commanded

  • Jeremiah 35:19 - Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel shall not want a man Jonadab the son of Rechab to stand before me for ever

  • Jeremiah 36:1 - year And it came to pass in the fourth of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD saying

  • Jeremiah 36:5 - commanded And Jeremiah Baruch saying I am shut up I cannot go into the house of the LORD

  • Jeremiah 36:14 - sent Therefore all the princes So Baruch Jehudi the son of Nethaniah the son of Shelemiah the son of Cushi saying the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people Take in his hand Take So Baruch the son of Neriah the roll in his hand and came

  • Jeremiah 36:15 - And they said unto him Sit down now and read it in our ears now and read So Baruch it in our ears

  • Jeremiah 36:16 - Now it came to pass when they had heard all the words they were afraid one both and other and said both unto Baruch We will surely We will surely the king all the words

  • Jeremiah 36:17 - Baruch And they asked saying Tell us now How didst thou write all these words at his mouth

  • Jeremiah 36:18 - answered Then Baruch unto me with his mouth them He pronounced all these words and I wrote in the book them with ink