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;
Nehemiah 1:8 - Remember I beseech thee the word that thou commandedst Moses thy servant saying If ye transgress I will scatter you abroad among the nations
Nehemiah 2:2 - said Wherefore the king unto me Why is thy countenance sad seeing thou art not sick this is nothing else but sorrow of heart afraid sore Then I was very
Nehemiah 2:3 - And said Let the king Let the king for ever live why should not my countenance when the city the place sepulchres of my fathers lieth waste and the gates thereof are consumed with fire
Nehemiah 2:4 - said Then the king unto me For what dost thou make request So I prayed to the God of heaven
Nehemiah 2:5 - And I said the king the king If it please have found favour and if thy servant in thy sight that thou wouldest send me unto Judah unto the city sepulchres of my fathers that I may build
Nehemiah 2:6 - said And the king unto me (the queen also sitting by him For how long shall thy journey be and when wilt thou return So it pleased And the king to send me and I set him a time
Nehemiah 2:7 - Moreover I said the king the king If it please let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river that they may convey me over till I come into Judah
Nehemiah 2:17 - Then said I unto them Ye see the distress of Jerusalem lieth waste and the gates thereof are burned with fire and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem that we be no more a reproach
Nehemiah 2:18 - Then I told their hands of my God for this good words upon me as also the king's that he had spoken that he had spoken Let us rise up and build So they strengthened their hands for this good
Nehemiah 2:19 - heard But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant the Ammonite and Geshem the Arabian it they laughed us to scorn and despised us and said What is this thing that ye do against the king will ye rebel
Nehemiah 2:20 - Then answered I them and said unto them The God of heaven he will prosper us therefore we his servants will arise and build but ye have no portion nor right nor memorial in Jerusalem
Nehemiah 4:2 - And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria And he spake Jews these feeble What do will they fortify themselves will they sacrifice will they make an end in a day will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned
Nehemiah 4:3 - Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him and he said Even that which they build go up if a fox he shall even break down wall their stone
Nehemiah 4:10 - said And Judah is decayed The strength of the bearers of burdens rubbish and there is much so that we are not able to build the wall
Nehemiah 4:11 - said And our adversaries They shall not know neither see till we come among them and slay to cease them and cause the work
Nehemiah 4:12 - came And it came to pass that when the Jews which dwelt by them they said unto us ten times From all places whence ye shall return
Nehemiah 4:14 - And I looked and rose up and said unto the nobles and to the rulers and to the rest of the people Be not ye afraid of them the Lord which is great Be not ye afraid remember and fight for your brethren your sons and your daughters your wives and your houses
Nehemiah 4:19 - And I said unto the nobles and to the rulers and to the rest of the people The work is great and large and we are separated upon the wall far from one another
Nehemiah 4:22 - Likewise at the same time said I unto the people Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem that in the night they may be a guard on the day to us and labour
Nehemiah 5:2 - For there were that said We our sons and our daughters are many therefore we take up corn for them that we may eat and live