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)


  • Malachi 1:7 - Ye offer upon mine altar bread Wherein have we polluted and ye say Wherein have we polluted and ye say The table of the LORD is contemptible

  • Malachi 1:8 - And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice is it not evil And if ye offer the lame and sick is it not evil offer it now unto thy governor will he be pleased with thee or accept thy person saith the LORD of hosts

  • Malachi 1:9 - And now I pray you beseech your persons God that he will be gracious unto us this hath been by your means will he regard your persons saith the LORD of hosts

  • Malachi 1:10 - Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought I have no pleasure in you saith the LORD of hosts an offering neither will I accept at your hand

  • Malachi 1:11 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down shall be great for my name among the Gentiles and in every place incense shall be offered for my name offering and a pure shall be great for my name among the Gentiles saith the LORD of hosts

  • Malachi 1:12 - But ye have profaned it in that ye say The table is polluted and the fruit is contemptible thereof even his meat

  • Malachi 1:13 - Ye said also Behold what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed Ye said the LORD of hosts and ye brought that which was torn and the lame and the sick and ye brought an offering should I accept this of your hand Ye said the LORD

  • Malachi 1:14 - But cursed be the deceiver which hath in his flock a male and voweth and sacrificeth a corrupt thing unto the Lord King for I am a great saith the LORD of hosts and my name is dreadful among the heathen

  • Malachi 2:2 - If ye will not hear and if ye will not lay it to heart to give glory unto my name saith the LORD of hosts I will even send a curse upon you and I will curse your blessings upon you and I will curse and if ye will not lay it to heart

  • Malachi 2:4 - And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you that my covenant might be with Levi saith the LORD of hosts

  • Malachi 2:8 - But ye are departed out of the way to stumble ye have caused many at the law ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi saith the LORD of hosts

  • Malachi 2:14 - Yet ye say Wherefore Because the LORD hath been witness and the wife of thy youth against whom thou hast dealt treacherously yet is she thy companion and the wife of thy covenant

  • Malachi 2:16 - that he hateth putting away saith For the LORD the God of Israel for one covereth violence with his garment saith For the LORD of hosts therefore take heed to your spirit that ye deal not treacherously

  • Malachi 2:17 - Wherein have we wearied of the LORD with your words Yet ye say Wherein have we wearied Yet ye say Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD and he delighteth in them or Where is the God of judgment

  • Malachi 3:1 - Behold I will send even the messenger and he shall prepare the way before shall suddenly come to his temple me and the Lord whom ye seek even the messenger of the covenant whom ye delight come saith the LORD of hosts

  • Malachi 3:5 - And I will come near to you to judgment witness and I will be a swift against the sorcerers and against the adulterers swearers and against false and against those that oppress in his wages the hireling the widow and the fatherless and that turn aside the stranger from his right and fear not me saith the LORD of hosts

  • Malachi 3:7 - Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances and have not kept Wherein shall we return Wherein shall we return But ye said the LORD of hosts But ye said Wherein shall we return

  • Malachi 3:8 - Wherein have we robbed Will a man God Wherein have we robbed me But ye say Wherein have we robbed thee In tithes and offerings

  • Malachi 3:10 - Bring ye all the tithes in mine house into the storehouse that there may be meat in mine house and prove me now herewith saith the LORD of hosts if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough

  • Malachi 3:11 - And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground cast her fruit neither shall your vine before the time in the field saith the LORD of hosts