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)


  • Psalms 145:6 - of the might of thy terrible acts And men shall speak thy greatness and I will declare

  • Psalms 145:11 - of the glory of thy kingdom They shall speak of thy power and talk

  • Ruth 1:8 - said And Naomi unto her two daughters in law return each house to her mother's deal the LORD kindly deal with the dead

  • Ruth 1:10 - And they said unto her Surely we will return with thee unto thy people

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • Ruth 2:2 - And she said And Ruth the Moabitess unto Naomi to the field and glean ears of corn after I shall find grace him in whose sight And she said my daughter

  • Ruth 2:4 - And behold Boaz came from Bethlehem and said unto the reapers The LORD and said bless The LORD

  • Ruth 2:5 - Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers Whose damsel

  • Ruth 2:6 - answered And the servant that was set over the reapers and said damsel It is the Moabitish that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab

  • Ruth 2:7 - And she said I pray you let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers so she came and hath continued even from the morning until now that she tarried in the house a little

  • Ruth 2:8 - Then said Boaz unto Ruth Hearest thou not my daughter not to glean field in another neither go from hence but abide here fast by my maidens

  • Ruth 2:10 - Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground and said unto him Why have I found grace in thine eyes that thou shouldest take knowledge of me seeing I am a stranger

  • Ruth 2:11 - answered And Boaz and said been shewed been shewed me all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother and the land of thy nativity unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore

  • Ruth 2:13 - Then she said Let me find favour in thy sight my lord for that thou hast comforted me and for that thou hast spoken friendly of thine handmaidens though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens

  • Ruth 2:14 - said And Boaz unto her At mealtime come thou hither and eat of the bread and dip thy morsel in the vinegar And she sat beside the reapers and he reached her parched and eat and was sufficed and left