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)


  • Joshua 15:19 - Who answered And he gave me a blessing land me a south And he gave And he gave me also springs of water And he gave me also springs her the upper me also springs and the nether

  • Joshua 17:4 - And they came near and before Eleazar the priest and before Joshua the son of Nun and before the princes saying The LORD commanded Moses he gave them an inheritance among our brethren he gave Therefore according to the commandment The LORD them an inheritance among our brethren of their father

  • Joshua 17:14 - spake And the children of Joseph unto Joshua saying Why hast thou given to inherit lot and one portion and one people seeing I am a great forasmuch as forasmuch as me hitherto hath blessed the LORD

  • Joshua 17:15 - answered And Joshua people them If thou be a great then get thee up to the wood country and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants be too narrow if mount Ephraim

  • Joshua 17:16 - said And the children of Joseph is not enough The hill have chariots of iron for us and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land and they who are of the valley both they who are of Bethshean and her towns and they who are of the valley of Jezreel

  • Joshua 17:17 - saying And Joshua unto the house of Joseph even to Ephraim and to Manasseh saying people Thou art a great power and hast great lot thou shalt not have one

  • Joshua 18:3 - said And Joshua unto the children of Israel How long are ye slack to go to possess the land hath given which the LORD God of your fathers

  • Joshua 18:8 - arose And the men and walk charged and Joshua and walk and describe the land saying and walk and walk the land and describe it and come again to me that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh

  • Joshua 20:1 - also spake The LORD unto Joshua saying

  • Joshua 20:2 - Speak to the children of Israel saying Appoint out for you cities of refuge Speak unto you by the hand of Moses

  • Joshua 21:2 - And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan saying The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in with the suburbs thereof for our cattle

  • Joshua 22:2 - And said unto them Ye have kept commanded all that Moses the servant of the LORD you and have obeyed my voice commanded

  • Joshua 22:8 - And he spake And he spake riches much Return unto your tents cattle much and with very with silver and with gold and with brass and with iron raiment much and with very divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren

  • Joshua 22:11 - heard And the children of Israel say have built And the children of Reuben And the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh an altar over against the land of Canaan in the borders of Jordan at the passage And the children of Israel

  • Joshua 22:15 - And they came and to the children of Reuben and to the children of Gad and to the half tribe of Manasseh unto the land of Gilead and they spake with them saying

  • Joshua 22:16 - Thus saith the whole congregation against the LORD What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel to turn away this day from following against the LORD in that ye have builded you an altar that ye might rebel this day against the LORD

  • Joshua 22:24 - it for fear of this thing And if we have not rather done might speak In time to come might speak unto our children unto our children might speak What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel

  • Joshua 22:26 - Therefore we said Let us now prepare to build us an altar not for burnt offering nor for sacrifice

  • Joshua 22:27 - But that it may be a witness between us and you and our generations after us that we might do the service in the LORD before him with our burnt offerings and with our sacrifices and with our peace offerings may not say that your children in time to come that your children Ye have no part in the LORD

  • Joshua 22:28 - Therefore said Therefore said to us or to our generations in time to come Therefore said again Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD made which our fathers not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifices but it is a witness