H559 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)


  • 2 Chronicles 1:11 - said And God to Solomon Because this was in thine heart and thou hast not asked riches wealth or honour nor the life of thine enemies life long and thou hast not asked and thou hast not asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself that thou mayest judge my people over whom I have made thee king

  • 2 Kings 1:11 - Again also he sent captain of fifty unto him another of fifty And he answered and said unto him O man of God said thus hath the king quickly Come down

  • Isaiah 1:11 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me saith the LORD I am full of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts not in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he goats and I delight

  • Jeremiah 1:11 - Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying I see Jeremiah came unto me saying a rod of an almond tree I see

  • Jonah 1:11 - Then said they unto him What shall we do may be calm unto thee that the sea unto thee that the sea wrought and was tempestuous

  • Joshua 1:11 - Pass through the host and command the people saying Prepare you victuals for within three days Pass this Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth to possess

  • 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

  • Proverbs 1:11 - If they say with us let us lay wait for blood let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause

  • Ruth 1:11 - said And Naomi Turn again my daughters with me are there yet any more sons in my womb

  • Zechariah 1:11 - And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees and said We have walked to and fro and behold all the earth and behold all the earth sitteth still and is at rest

  • Jeremiah 1:12 - Then said the LORD unto me Thou hast well seen for I will hasten my word to perform

  • Job 1:12 - said And the LORD So Satan Behold all that he hath is in thy power only upon himself put not forth Behold all that he hath is in thy power went forth So Satan from the presence And the LORD

  • Jonah 1:12 - And he said unto them Take me up and cast me forth into the sea be calm into the sea unto you for I know that for my sake tempest this great

  • Joshua 1:12 - And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to half the tribe of Manasseh saying Joshua saying

  • Judges 1:12 - said And Caleb He that smiteth Kirjathsepher and taketh it to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife

  • 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

  • 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

  • Ruth 1:12 - Turn again my daughters your way for I am too old if I should have an husband If I should say I have hope also to night if I should have an husband and should also bear sons

  • Zechariah 1:12 - answered Then the angel O LORD and said O LORD of hosts how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years

  • Zephaniah 1:12 - And it shall come to pass at that time that I will search Jerusalem with candles and punish that are settled on their lees that say in their heart will not do good The LORD neither will he do evil

  • Amos 1:13 - Thus saith the LORD For three transgressions of the children of Ammon and for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead that they might enlarge their border

  • Esther 1:13 - said for so was the king's to the wise men all that knew the times manner for so was the king's toward all that knew law and judgment

  • Haggai 1:13 - Then spake Haggai messenger in the LORD'S message in the LORD'S unto the people Then spake I am with you saith in the LORD'S

  • 1 Kings 1:13 - and get thee in O king David and say unto him Didst not thou my lord O king swear unto thine handmaid and say Assuredly Solomon thy son reign after me and he shall sit upon my throne reign why then doth Adonijah

  • 2 Samuel 1:13 - him Whence art thou And he answered And David unto the young man that told him Whence art thou And he answered I am the son of a stranger an Amalekite

  • Jeremiah 1:13 - And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time saying I see saying pot a seething I see and the face and the face the north

  • Joshua 1:13 - Remember the word commanded which Moses the servant The LORD you saying The LORD your God hath given you rest and hath given you this land

  • 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

  • Deuteronomy 1:14 - And ye answered me and said is good The thing which thou hast spoken for us to do

  • Genesis 1:14 - said And God Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide and for days from the night and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years

  • 1 Samuel 1:14 - said And Eli unto her How long wilt thou be drunken put away thy wine

  • 2 Samuel 1:14 - said And David unto him How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy anointed the LORD'S

  • Jeremiah 1:14 - said Then the LORD unto me Out of the north shall break forth an evil upon all the inhabitants of the land

  • Job 1:14 - a messenger And there came unto Job and said The oxen were plowing and the asses feeding beside

  • Jonah 1:14 - Wherefore they cried O LORD and said We beseech thee O LORD we beseech thee let us not perish life for this man's and lay blood not upon us innocent O LORD as it pleased hast done

  • Judges 1:14 - And it came to pass when she came to him that she moved him to ask of her father a field and she lighted from off her ass said and Caleb

  • 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

  • Zechariah 1:14 - Thus saith So the angel that communed unto me Cry Thus saith Thus saith the LORD of hosts I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion jealousy with a great

  • Amos 1:15 - shall go And their king into captivity he and his princes together saith the LORD

  • Exodus 1:15 - spake And the king of Egypt midwives to the Hebrew and the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah

  • 1 Samuel 1:15 - answered And Hannah and said No my lord I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit neither wine nor strong drink I have drunk but have poured out my soul before the LORD

  • 2 Samuel 1:15 - called And David one of the young men and said Go near and fall upon him And he smote him that he died

  • Judges 1:15 - And she said unto him Give me a blessing land me a south for thou hast given for thou hast given me also springs of water for thou hast given And Caleb me also springs her the upper me also springs and the nether

  • Ruth 1:15 - And she said is gone back Behold thy sister in law unto her people and unto her gods is gone back thou after Behold thy sister in law

  • Deuteronomy 1:16 - And I charged and judge at that time saying Hear and his brother and judge righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger

  • Ecclesiastes 1:16 - I communed with mine own heart saying Lo I am come to great estate and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem with mine own heart experience had great more wisdom and knowledge

  • Esther 1:16 - answered And Memucan before of the king and the princes of the king hath not done wrong Vashti the queen and the princes and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus

  • Exodus 1:16 - And he said When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women and see them upon the stools if it be a son then ye shall kill him but if it be a daughter then she shall live

  • 1 Kings 1:16 - bowed And Bathsheba and did obeisance And the king said And the king

  • 2 Kings 1:16 - And he said unto him Thus saith the LORD Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baalzebub is it not because there is no God of Ekron is it not because there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word off that bed on which thou art gone up therefore thou shalt not come down but shalt surely but shalt surely

  • 2 Samuel 1:16 - against thee saying And David unto him Thy blood be upon thy head for thy mouth hath testified against thee saying I have slain anointed the LORD'S

  • Job 1:16 - While he was yet speaking there came also another and said The fire of God is fallen from heaven and hath burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them and I only am escaped alone to tell

  • Joshua 1:16 - And they answered Joshua saying and whithersoever All that thou commandest us we will do and whithersoever thou sendest

  • Ruth 1:16 - said And Ruth Intreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after I will lodge I will lodge shall be my people shall be my people and thy God and thy God

  • Zechariah 1:16 - Therefore thus saith the LORD I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies my house shall be built in it saith the LORD of hosts and a line shall be stretched forth to Jerusalem

  • Esther 1:17 - shall come abroad For this deed of the queen unto all women so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes commanded The king Ahasuerus commanded him but she came Vashti of the queen before him but she came

  • 1 Kings 1:17 - And she said unto him My lord thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid saying Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me and he shall sit upon my throne

  • 1 Samuel 1:17 - answered Then Eli and said in peace and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked

  • Job 1:17 - While he was yet speaking there came also another and said The Chaldeans made out three bands and fell upon the camels and have carried them away the servants yea and slain with the edge of the sword and I only am escaped alone to tell

  • Zechariah 1:17 - Cry Thus saith Thus saith and the LORD of hosts shall yet be spread abroad My cities through prosperity shall yet comfort and the LORD Zion and shall yet choose Jerusalem

  • Daniel 1:18 - Now at the end of the days had said that the king brought brought them in then the prince of the eunuchs them in before Nebuchadnezzar

  • Esther 1:18 - this day say Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media which have heard of the deed of the queen princes unto all the king's Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath

  • Exodus 1:18 - called And the king of Egypt for the midwives and said unto them Why have ye done this thing alive the men children

  • 1 Samuel 1:18 - And she said find Let thine handmaid grace in thy sight So the woman her way and did eat and her countenance

  • 2 Samuel 1:18 - Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow behold it is written in the book of Jasher

  • Isaiah 1:18 - and let us reason together saith the LORD though your sins be as scarlet as snow they shall be as white though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool

  • Job 1:18 - While he was yet speaking there came also another and said Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine house brother's in their eldest

  • Exodus 1:19 - said And the midwives unto Pharaoh women are not as the Egyptian women Because the Hebrew for they are lively ere come in And the midwives And the midwives

  • Ruth 1:19 - So they two And it came to pass when they were come to Bethlehem And it came to pass when they were come to Bethlehem was moved that all the city about them and they said Is this Naomi

  • Zechariah 1:19 - And I said unto the angel that talked And I said me These are the horns which have scattered Judah Israel and Jerusalem

  • Deuteronomy 1:20 - And I said unto you Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites which the LORD our God doth give

  • Genesis 1:20 - said And God bring forth abundantly Let the waters the moving creature that hath life and fowl that may fly above the earth above in the open firmament of heaven

  • Ruth 1:20 - And she said call me not Naomi call me Mara bitterly for the Almighty hath dealt very

  • Job 1:21 - And said Naked came I out womb of my mother's Naked shall I return and the LORD gave and the LORD hath taken away be the name and the LORD blessed

  • Proverbs 1:21 - in the chief place of concourse She crieth in the openings of the gates in the city her words she uttereth

  • Zechariah 1:21 - And he spake I What come these to do And he spake And he spake These are the horns to scatter Judah so that no man did lift up his head I What come to fray them to cast out These are the horns of the Gentiles did lift up These are the horns over the land Judah to scatter

  • Deuteronomy 1:22 - And ye came near unto me every one of you and said We will send before us and they shall search us out the land again us word by what way we must go up and into what cities we shall come

  • Exodus 1:22 - charged And Pharaoh all his people saying Every son that is born into the river ye shall cast and every daughter ye shall save alive

  • Genesis 1:22 - blessed And God them saying Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas and let fowl and multiply in the earth

  • 1 Samuel 1:22 - But Hannah went not up for she said unto her husband for be weaned I will not go up until the child and then I will bring him that he may appear before the LORD and there abide for ever

  • 1 Kings 1:23 - And they told himself before the king saying Behold Nathan the prophet And when he was come in before himself before the king he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground

  • 1 Samuel 1:23 - said And Elkanah her husband unto her Do thee good what seemeth abode until she weaned establish him only the LORD his word abode So the woman suck and gave her son until she weaned

  • Genesis 1:24 - said And God bring forth Let the earth creature and beast after his kind cattle and creeping thing and beast Let the earth after his kind

  • 1 Kings 1:24 - hast thou said And Nathan My lord O king hast thou said Adonijah shall reign after me and he shall sit upon my throne

  • Judges 1:24 - saw And the spies a man come forth into the city and they said saw us we pray thee the entrance into the city and we will shew thee mercy

  • Deuteronomy 1:25 - And they took in their hands of the fruit land and brought it down again us word and said It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give

  • 1 Kings 1:25 - For he is gone down this day and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance and hath called sons all the king's and the captains of the host and Abiathar the priest and behold they eat and drink before him and say God save all the king's Adonijah

  • Genesis 1:26 - said And God Let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth and over all the earth

  • 1 Samuel 1:26 - And she said Oh my lord liveth as thy soul my lord I am the woman that stood by thee here praying unto the LORD

  • Deuteronomy 1:27 - And ye murmured in your tents and said Because the LORD us he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy

  • Deuteronomy 1:28 - Whither shall we go up our brethren have discouraged our heart saying The people are great and taller than we the cities are great and walled up to heaven the sons of the Anakims and moreover we have seen

  • Genesis 1:28 - blessed And God said And God unto them Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveth the earth

  • 1 Kings 1:28 - answered Then king David and said Call me Bathsheba And she came before Then king and stood before Then king

  • Deuteronomy 1:29 - Then I said unto you Dread not neither be afraid

  • Genesis 1:29 - said And God Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth and every tree in the which is the fruit and every tree bearing seed to you it shall be for meat

  • 1 Kings 1:29 - sware And the king and said liveth As the LORD that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress

  • 1 Kings 1:30 - Even as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel saying Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead even so will I certainly do this day

  • 1 Kings 1:31 - bowed Then Bathsheba with her face to the earth and did reverence king and said live Let my lord king David for ever

  • 1 Kings 1:32 - said And king David Call me Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada And they came before And king

  • 1 Kings 1:33 - also said The king unto them Take with you the servants of your lord to ride and cause Solomon my son upon mine own mule and bring him down to Gihon