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 3:12 - shall call you blessed And all nations land for ye shall be a delightsome saith the LORD of hosts

  • Malachi 3:13 - have been stout Your words Yet ye say the LORD Yet ye say What have we spoken

  • Malachi 3:14 - Ye have said It is vain to serve God and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts

  • Malachi 3:17 - And they shall be mine saith the LORD of hosts in that day when I make up my jewels and I will spare and I will spare them as a man his own son that serveth

  • Malachi 4:1 - For behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven and all the proud yea and all that do wickedly shall be stubble shall burn them up For behold the day cometh saith the LORD of hosts that it shall leave them neither root nor branch

  • Malachi 4:3 - And ye shall tread down the wicked for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this saith the LORD of hosts

  • Micah 2:3 - Therefore thus saith the LORD do I devise Behold against this family an evil from which ye shall not remove your necks haughtily for this time an evil

  • Micah 2:4 - In that day shall one take up a parable against you and lament lamentation with a doleful and say We be utterly We be utterly the portion of my people he hath changed how hath he removed our fields he hath divided

  • Micah 2:7 - O thou that art named the house of Jacob straitened is the spirit of the LORD are these his doings do not my words do good uprightly to him that walketh

  • Micah 3:1 - And I said Hear I pray you O heads of Jacob and ye princes of the house of Israel Is it not for you to know judgment

  • Micah 3:5 - Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets err that make my people that bite with their teeth and cry Peace and he that putteth not into their mouths they even prepare war

  • Micah 3:11 - The heads for reward thereof judge and the priests for hire thereof teach and the prophets for money thereof divine Is not the LORD yet will they lean and say Is not the LORD among can come us none evil

  • Micah 4:2 - shall come nations And many and say shall come and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD and to the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his ways shall come in his paths of Zion shall go forth for the law and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem

  • Micah 4:11 - are gathered nations Now also many against thee that say Let her be defiled look upon Zion and let our eye

  • Micah 6:1 - Hear ye now what the LORD saith Arise contend thou before the mountains Hear and let the hills thy voice

  • Micah 7:10 - shall behold Then she that is mine enemy shall cover it and shame her which said unto me Where is the LORD thy God mine eyes shall behold her now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets

  • Nahum 1:12 - Thus saith the LORD Though they be quiet and likewise many yet thus shall they be cut down when he shall pass through Though I have afflicted Though I have afflicted

  • Nahum 3:7 - And it shall come to pass that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee and say is laid waste Nineveh who will bemoan her whence shall I seek comforters

  • Nehemiah 1:3 - And they said that are left that are left of the captivity there in the province affliction are in great and reproach the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down and the gates thereof are burned with fire

  • Nehemiah 1:5 - And said I beseech thee O LORD God of heaven God the great and terrible him and observe covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments