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 38:12 - said And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian And Jeremiah Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords did And Jeremiah

  • Jeremiah 38:14 - sent and the king Then Zedekiah and took Jeremiah the prophet entry unto him into the third that is in the house of the LORD said and the king Jeremiah I will ask thee a thing hide thee a thing

  • Jeremiah 38:15 - said Then Jeremiah unto Zedekiah If I declare it unto thee wilt thou not surely it unto thee wilt thou not surely and if I give thee counsel wilt thou not hearken

  • Jeremiah 38:16 - sware the king So Zedekiah unto Jeremiah secretly saying liveth As the LORD that made thy life I will not put thee to death neither will I give thee into the hand that seek thy life

  • Jeremiah 38:17 - Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah Then said the LORD the God of hosts the God of Israel If thou wilt assuredly If thou wilt assuredly princes unto the king of Babylon's and thou shalt live then thy soul and this city shall not be burned with fire and thou shalt live and thine house

  • Jeremiah 38:19 - said the king And Zedekiah unto Jeremiah I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans lest they deliver me into their hand and they mock

  • Jeremiah 38:20 - said But Jeremiah They shall not deliver thee Obey I beseech thee the voice of the LORD which I speak unto thee so it shall be well shall live unto thee and thy soul

  • Jeremiah 38:22 - And behold all the women that are left house in the king of Judah's shall be brought forth princes in the king of Babylon's and those women shall say have set thee on and have prevailed are sunk in the mire against thee thy feet and they are turned away back

  • Jeremiah 38:24 - Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah Let no man know of these words and thou shalt not die

  • Jeremiah 38:25 - hear But if the princes said with thee and they come unto thee and say unto thee Declare said also what the king hide it not from us and we will not put thee to death said also what the king

  • Jeremiah 38:26 - Then thou shalt say unto them I presented my supplication before the king that he would not cause me to return house to Jonathan's to die

  • Jeremiah 39:11 - gave charge Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard saying

  • Jeremiah 39:15 - came unto Jeremiah Now the word of the LORD while he was shut up in the court of the prison saying

  • Jeremiah 39:16 - Go Thus saith to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian Thus saith Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Behold I will bring my words upon this city for evil and not for good before and they shall be accomplished in that day

  • Jeremiah 40:2 - took And the captain of the guard Jeremiah and said unto him The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place

  • Jeremiah 40:9 - sware And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan saying Fear and serve the Chaldeans dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon and it shall be well

  • Jeremiah 40:14 - And said know know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael of the Ammonites of Nethaniah to slay believed thee But Gedaliah of the Ammonites of Ahikam

  • Jeremiah 40:15 - Then Johanan the son of Kareah saying to Gedaliah secretly in Mizpah saying I pray thee and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and no man shall know I pray thee and I will slay unto thee should be scattered thee that all the Jews which are gathered perish and the remnant in Judah

  • Jeremiah 40:16 - said But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam unto Johanan the son of Kareah Thou shalt not do this thing falsely for thou speakest of Ishmael

  • Jeremiah 41:6 - went forth And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to meet from Mizpah all along all along them weeping and it came to pass as he met them he said unto them Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam