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;
1 Samuel 18:25 - Thus shall ye say And Saul Thus shall ye say to David desireth The king not any dowry but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines to be avenged enemies The king And Saul thought fall to David by the hand of the Philistines
1 Samuel 19:2 - told But Jonathan David saying seeketh Saul my father to kill thee now therefore I pray thee take heed to thyself until the morning and abide in a secret place and hide
1 Samuel 19:4 - spake And Jonathan against David good unto Saul his father and said because he hath not sinned unto him Let not the king against his servant against David because he hath not sinned against thee and because his works good have been to thee-ward very
1 Samuel 19:11 - also sent Saul messengers house David's to watch him and to slay him in the morning told David's and Michal wife him saying If thou save not thy life to night to morrow him and to slay
1 Samuel 19:14 - sent And when Saul messengers to take David she said He is sick
1 Samuel 19:15 - sent And Saul the messengers again to see David saying Bring him up to me in the bed that I may slay
1 Samuel 19:17 - He said And Saul And Michal Why hast thou deceived me so and sent away mine enemy that he is escaped He said And Michal And Saul He said and sent away why should I kill
1 Samuel 19:19 - And it was told Saul saying Behold David is at Naioth in Ramah
1 Samuel 19:22 - he also to Ramah and came well to a great that is in Sechu and he asked And one said Where are Samuel and David And one said Behold they be at Naioth he also to Ramah
1 Samuel 19:24 - And he stripped off also his clothes and prophesied also before Samuel in like manner and lay down naked all that day and all that night Wherefore they say also Is Saul also among the prophets
1 Samuel 20:1 - fled And David from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan What have I done what is mine iniquity and what is my sin before thy father that he seeketh my life
1 Samuel 20:2 - And he said unto him God forbid thou shalt not die will do behold my father nothing either great nothing or small but that he will shew hide behold my father nothing
1 Samuel 20:3 - sware And David and he saith certainly certainly Thy father that I have found grace in thine eyes and he saith certainly Let not Jonathan this lest he be grieved but truly liveth as the LORD liveth and as thy soul there is but a step between me and death
1 Samuel 20:4 - Then said Jonathan unto David Then said Whatsoever thy soul I will even do
1 Samuel 20:5 - said And David unto Jonathan is the new moon Behold to morrow and I should not fail and I should not fail with the king at meat but let me go that I may hide myself in the field day at even unto the third
1 Samuel 20:6 - at all at all If thy father me then say asked asked David leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city sacrifice for there is a yearly there for all the family
1 Samuel 20:7 - If he say thus It is well shall have peace thy servant but if he be very but if he be very then be sure is determined that evil
1 Samuel 20:9 - said And Jonathan Far be it from thee certainly certainly were determined that evil by my father to come upon thee then would not I tell
1 Samuel 20:10 - Then said David to Jonathan Who shall tell answer me or what if thy father thee roughly
1 Samuel 20:11 - said And Jonathan unto David And they went out into the field And they went out both into the field