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)


  • Jonah 1:8 - Then said they unto him Tell us we pray thee for whose cause this evil is upon us What is thine occupation and whence comest thou what is thy country and of what people

  • Jonah 1:9 - And he said unto them I am an Hebrew the LORD the God of heaven and I fear which hath made the sea and the dry

  • Jonah 1:10 - afraid Then were the men exceedingly and said unto him Why hast thou done knew Then were the men from the presence of the LORD that he fled because he had told

  • Jonah 1:11 - Then said they unto him What shall we do may be calm unto thee that the sea unto thee that the sea wrought and was tempestuous

  • Jonah 1:12 - And he said unto them Take me up and cast me forth into the sea be calm into the sea unto you for I know that for my sake tempest this great

  • Jonah 1:14 - Wherefore they cried O LORD and said We beseech thee O LORD we beseech thee let us not perish life for this man's and lay blood not upon us innocent O LORD as it pleased hast done

  • Jonah 2:2 - And said I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD and he heard me out of the belly of hell cried I and thou heardest my voice

  • Jonah 2:4 - Then I said I am cast out of thy sight again yet I will look temple toward thy holy

  • Jonah 2:10 - spake And the LORD unto the fish and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry

  • Jonah 3:1 - And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time saying

  • Jonah 3:4 - began And Jonah to enter into the city journey day's a and he cried and said Yet forty day's and Nineveh shall be overthrown

  • Jonah 3:7 - And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles and published Let neither man nor beast herd nor flock taste any thing let them not feed water nor drink

  • Jonah 4:2 - And he prayed thee O LORD and said I pray thee O LORD was not this my saying when I was yet in my country before Therefore I fled unto Tarshish for I knew God that thou art a gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repentest thee of the evil

  • Jonah 4:4 - Then said the LORD Doest thou well to be angry

  • Jonah 4:8 - did arise And it came to pass when the sun prepared that God wind east a vehement beat And it came to pass when the sun upon the head of Jonah that he fainted and wished in himself to die and said It is better for me to die than to live

  • Jonah 4:9 - And he said And God to Jonah Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd And he said Doest thou well to be angry even unto death

  • Jonah 4:10 - Then said the LORD Thou hast had pity on the gourd for the which thou hast not laboured neither madest it grow in a night in a night and perished

  • Joshua 1:1 - Now after the death Moses the servant it came to pass that the LORD saying it came to pass that the LORD unto Joshua the son of Nun minister Moses saying

  • Joshua 1:10 - commanded Then Joshua the officers of the people saying

  • Joshua 1:11 - Pass through the host and command the people saying Prepare you victuals for within three days Pass this Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth to possess