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)


  • Judges 19:11 - And when they were by Jebus the day spent was far said and the servant unto his master I pray thee and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites and lodge

  • Judges 19:12 - said And his master unto him We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger that is not of the children of Israel we will pass over to Gibeah

  • Judges 19:13 - And he said unto his servant and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night in Gibeah or in Ramah

  • Judges 19:17 - And when he had lifted up his eyes he saw man a wayfaring in the street of the city said man and the old thou and whence comest

  • Judges 19:18 - And he said unto him We are passing from Bethlehemjudah toward the side of mount Ephraim but I am now going from Bethlehemjudah me to house of the LORD but I am now going and there is no man that receiveth me to house

  • Judges 19:20 - said man And the old Peace be with thee howsoever let all thy wants be with thee howsoever not in the street lie upon me only lodge

  • Judges 19:22 - merry Now as they were making their hearts behold the men of the city behold the men sons of Belial beset into thine house and beat at the door and spake man to the master into thine house the old and spake Bring forth man that came into thine house that we may know

  • Judges 19:23 - went out And the man the master into mine house unto them and said unto them Nay my brethren unto them Nay nay I pray you do not so wickedly seeing is come And the man into mine house unto them Nay do not this folly

  • Judges 19:28 - And he said rose up But none answered took her up upon an ass rose up Then the man him unto his place

  • Judges 19:30 - And it was so done nor seen it said And it was so done nor seen There was no such deed from the day came up that the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt from the day consider of it take advice and speak

  • Judges 20:3 - heard Now the children of Benjamin were gone up Now the children of Israel to Mizpeh Then said Now the children of Israel Tell us how was this wickedness

  • Judges 20:4 - answered the husband And the Levite the husband of the woman that was slain and said into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin I came I and my concubine to lodge

  • Judges 20:8 - arose And all the people We will not any as one saying We will not any to his tent of us turn We will not any into his house

  • Judges 20:12 - sent And the tribes of Israel men And the tribes of Benjamin saying What wickedness is this that is done

  • Judges 20:18 - arose and went up to the house and asked counsel of God and said And the children of Israel Which and went up first to the battle And the children of Benjamin and said And the LORD Judah first

  • Judges 20:23 - Go up And the children of Israel and wept before And the LORD until even and asked And the LORD said again Shall I go up to battle And the children of Benjamin my brother said And the LORD Go up

  • Judges 20:28 - And Phinehas against the children of Eleazar against the children of Aaron stood before it in those days said Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother or shall I cease said And the LORD Go up for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand

  • Judges 20:32 - said And the children of Benjamin They are smitten down before us as at the first And the children of Israel said Let us flee and draw them from the city unto the highways

  • Judges 20:39 - retired And when the men of Israel battle Benjamin began to smite and kill And when the men of Israel about thirty And when the men for they said Surely Surely before battle us as in the first

  • Judges 21:1 - Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh saying Now the men of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife