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)


  • Job 36:23 - Who hath enjoined him his way or who can say Thou hast wrought iniquity

  • Job 37:6 - to the snow For he saith Be thou on the earth rain and to the great rain and to the great of his strength

  • Job 37:19 - Teach us what we shall say unto him for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness

  • Job 37:20 - Shall it be told him that I speak speak if a man surely he shall be swallowed up

  • Job 38:1 - answered Then the LORD Job out of the whirlwind and said

  • Job 38:11 - And said Hitherto shalt thou come but no further be stayed and here shall thy proud waves

  • Job 38:35 - Canst thou send lightnings and say

  • Job 39:25 - among the trumpets He saith Ha afar off and he smelleth the battle the thunder of the captains and the shouting

  • Job 40:1 - answered Moreover the LORD Job and said

  • Job 40:3 - answered Then Job the LORD and said

  • Job 40:6 - Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind and said

  • Job 42:1 - answered Then Job the LORD and said

  • Job 42:7 - And it was so that after for ye have not spoken the LORD these words Job said the LORD to Eliphaz the Temanite is kindled My wrath against thee and against thy two friends for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right as my servant Job

  • Joel 2:17 - between the porch and the altar weep Let the priests the ministers O LORD and let them say Spare O LORD among the people and give not thine heritage to reproach should rule over that the heathen and let them say among the people Where is their God

  • Joel 2:19 - will answer Yea the LORD and say unto his people Behold I will send you corn and wine and oil and ye shall be satisfied therewith and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen

  • Joel 2:32 - And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name as the LORD shall be delivered for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance hath said as the LORD and in the remnant as the LORD And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call

  • Joel 3:10 - Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears let the weak say I am strong

  • Jonah 1:1 - Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai saying

  • Jonah 1:6 - came So the shipmaster to him and said unto him What meanest thou O sleeper arise call if so be that God will think if so be that God upon us that we perish

  • Jonah 1:7 - And they said every one to his fellow and let us cast and the lot that we may know for whose cause this evil and let us cast and the lot and let us cast and the lot upon Jonah