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;
Judges 14:3 - said Then his father and his mother unto him Is there never among the daughters of thy brethren or among all my people a wife that thou goest Get a wife Philistines of the uncircumcised said And Samson Then his father Get her for me for she pleaseth me well
Judges 14:12 - said And Samson unto them I will now put forth a riddle declare declare it me within the seven days of the feast and find it out then I will give and thirty sheets and thirty change of garments
Judges 14:13 - But if ye cannot declare it me then shall ye give and thirty sheets and thirty change of garments And they said unto him Put forth thy riddle that we may hear
Judges 14:14 - And he said unto them Out of the eater came forth meat and out of the strong came forth sweetness And they could expound the riddle not in three days
Judges 14:15 - day And it came to pass on the seventh that they said wife unto Samson's Entice thy husband that he may declare unto us the riddle lest we burn house thee and thy father's with fire us to take that we have have ye called
Judges 14:16 - wept wife And Samson's before him and said Thou dost but hate me and lovest a riddle me not thou hast put forth unto the children of my people and hast not told before him and said it my father nor my mother and hast not told and hast not told
Judges 14:18 - And he said of the city day unto him on the seventh went down before the sun What is sweeter than honey and what is stronger than a lion And he said unto them If ye had not plowed with my heifer ye had not found out my riddle
Judges 15:1 - But it came to pass within a while after But it came to pass within a while after harvest of wheat visited that Samson his wife with a kid and he said I will go in his wife into the chamber would not suffer But her father I will go in
Judges 15:2 - I verily And her father I verily I verily hated hated her therefore I gave her to thy companion sister is not her younger fairer
Judges 15:3 - said And Samson shall I be more blameless concerning them Now than the Philistines though I do them a displeasure
Judges 15:6 - said And the Philistines Who hath done said Samson the son in law of the Timnite because he had taken his wife and given her to his companion came up And the Philistines and burnt her and her father with fire
Judges 15:7 - said And Samson unto them Though ye have done this unto them Though yet will I be avenged of you and after that I will cease
Judges 15:10 - against us And they answered And the men of Judah Why are ye come up against us And they answered To bind Samson Why are ye come up to do to do
Judges 15:11 - went Then three thousand men of Judah to the top of the rock Etam and said to Samson Knowest are rulers thou not that the Philistines over us what is this that thou hast done and said over us what is this that thou hast done over us what is this that thou hast done
Judges 15:12 - And they said to bind unto him We are come down thee that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines And they said And Samson unto them Swear unto me that ye will not fall upon
Judges 15:13 - And they spake And they spake No but we will bind No but we will bind and deliver thee into their hand but surely but surely No but we will bind him with two cords new and brought him up from the rock
Judges 15:16 - said And Samson With the jawbone of an ass heaps heaps With the jawbone of an ass have I slain a thousand men
Judges 15:18 - athirst And he was sore and called on the LORD and said Thou hast given into the hand of thy servant deliverance this great and now shall I die for thirst and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised
Judges 16:2 - And it was told the Gazites saying is come Samson hither And they compassed him in and laid wait all the night in the gate of the city and were quiet all the night saying when it is day In the morning we shall kill
Judges 16:5 - came up And the lords of the Philistines unto her and said unto her Entice him and see strength wherein his great lieth and by what means we may prevail against him that we may bind him to afflict him and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver