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)


  • Ruth 4:6 - said And the kinsman I cannot And the kinsman And the kinsman it for myself lest I mar mine own inheritance And the kinsman thou my right I cannot And the kinsman

  • Ruth 4:8 - said Therefore the kinsman unto Boaz Buy it for thee So he drew off his shoe

  • Ruth 4:9 - said And Boaz unto the elders and unto all the people Ye are witnesses this day that I have bought all that was Elimelech's and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's of the hand of Naomi

  • Ruth 4:11 - said And all the people that were in the gate and the elders We are witnesses make The LORD the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah did build which two into thine house of Israel and do thou worthily in Ephratah and be famous in Bethlehem

  • Ruth 4:14 - said And the women unto Naomi Blessed be the LORD which hath not left without a kinsman thee this day may be famous that his name in Israel

  • Ruth 4:17 - and they called And the women her neighbours his name saying born There is a son to Naomi and they called his name Obed he is the father of Jesse he is the father of David

  • Song of Solomon 2:10 - spake My beloved and said unto me Rise up my love my fair one

  • Song of Solomon 7:8 - I said I will go up to the palm tree I will take hold of the boughs thereof now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine and the smell of thy nose like apples

  • Zechariah 1:1 - month In the eighth year in the second of Darius came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah the son of Berechiah the son of Iddo the prophet saying

  • Zechariah 1:3 - Therefore say Therefore say the LORD of hosts Turn ye unto me saith the LORD of hosts Turn Therefore say the LORD of hosts

  • Zechariah 1:4 - Be ye not as your fathers have cried prophets unto whom the former Thus saith Thus saith the LORD of hosts Turn ways and from your evil doings and from your evil but they did not hear nor hearken unto me saith the LORD

  • Zechariah 1:6 - But my words and my statutes which I commanded my servants the prophets did they not take hold of your fathers and they returned and said thought Like as the LORD of hosts so hath he dealt unto us according to our ways and according to our doings so hath he dealt

  • Zechariah 1:7 - day and twentieth Upon the four of the eleventh month month Sebat year in the second of Darius came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah the son of Berechiah the son of Iddo the prophet saying

  • Zechariah 1:9 - Then said I O my lord Then said what are these And the angel that talked unto me I will shew

  • Zechariah 1:10 - answered And the man that stood among the myrtle trees and said hath sent These are they whom the LORD to walk to and fro through the earth

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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