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)


  • 1 Chronicles 15:16 - spake And David to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick psalteries and harps and cymbals sounding by lifting up the voice with joy

  • 1 Chronicles 16:18 - Saying Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan the lot of your inheritance

  • 1 Chronicles 16:31 - be glad Let the heavens rejoice and let the earth and let men say among the nations The LORD reigneth

  • 1 Chronicles 16:35 - And say ye Save us O God of our salvation and gather us together and deliver us from the heathen that we may give thanks name to thy holy and glory in thy praise

  • 1 Chronicles 16:36 - Blessed be the LORD God of Israel and ever and ever said And all the people Amen and praised be the LORD

  • 1 Chronicles 17:1 - Lo I dwell Now it came to pass as David in an house said Now it came to pass as David to Nathan the prophet Lo I dwell in an house of cedars but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains

  • 1 Chronicles 17:2 - said Then Nathan unto David all that is in thine heart Do for God

  • 1 Chronicles 17:3 - And it came to pass the same night that the word of God came to Nathan saying

  • 1 Chronicles 17:4 - Thus saith David my servant Thus saith the LORD Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in

  • 1 Chronicles 17:6 - Wheresoever I have walked of Israel I a word spake to any of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to feed my people saying Why have ye not built me an house of cedars

  • 1 Chronicles 17:7 - Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David Now therefore thus shalt thou say the LORD of hosts I took thee from the sheepcote even from following the sheep that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel

  • 1 Chronicles 17:16 - came the king And David and sat before Who am I O LORD and said Who am I O LORD God and what is mine house came me hitherto

  • 1 Chronicles 17:24 - Let it even be established may be magnified that thy name for ever saying The LORD of hosts even a God of Israel even a God of Israel and let the house of David thy servant be established before

  • 1 Chronicles 19:2 - said And David I will shew kindness to Hanun of the children of Nahash I will shew because his father kindness sent And David messengers to comfort because his father came So the servants And David into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun to comfort

  • 1 Chronicles 19:3 - said But the princes of the children of Ammon to Hanun doth honour thou that David thy father Thinkest that he hath sent comforters unto thee for to search and to overthrow and to spy out the land come unto thee are not his servants

  • 1 Chronicles 19:5 - certain and told David how the men were served And he sent to meet how the men ashamed were greatly said And the king Tarry at Jericho be grown until your beards and then return

  • 1 Chronicles 19:12 - And he said be too strong If the Syrians for me then thou shalt help me but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee then I will help

  • 1 Chronicles 21:2 - said And David to Joab and to the rulers of the people number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan and bring of them to me that I may know the number

  • 1 Chronicles 21:3 - answered And Joab so many more The LORD make his people as they an hundred times are they not all my lord's the king are they not all my lord's servants require are they not all my lord's this thing why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel

  • 1 Chronicles 21:8 - said And David unto God I have sinned for I have done very because I have done this thing but now I beseech thee do away the iniquity of thy servant foolishly for I have done very