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 Samuel 20:12 - said And Jonathan toward David O LORD God of Israel when I have sounded my father any time about to morrow or the third toward David and I then send not unto thee and shew

  • 1 Samuel 20:18 - said Then Jonathan To morrow is the new moon and thou shalt be missed and thou shalt be missed because thy seat

  • 1 Samuel 20:21 - And behold I will send a lad find out Behold the arrows If I expressly If I expressly a lad Behold the arrows are on this side of thee take them then come thou for there is peace to thee and no hurt liveth as the LORD

  • 1 Samuel 20:22 - But if I say thus unto the young man Behold the arrows are beyond hath sent thee away for the LORD

  • 1 Samuel 20:26 - spake Nevertheless Saul not any thing that day for he thought Something hath befallen him he is not clean clean

  • 1 Samuel 20:27 - And it came to pass on the morrow day of the month which was the second was empty place that David's said and Saul unto Jonathan his son Wherefore cometh his son of Jesse neither yesterday nor to day to meat

  • 1 Samuel 20:29 - And he said Let me go hath a sacrifice I pray thee for our family in the city he hath commanded and my brother me to be there and now if I have found favour in thine eyes let me get away I pray thee and see and my brother Therefore he cometh table not unto the king's

  • 1 Samuel 20:30 - was kindled anger Then Saul's against Jonathan and he said the son of the perverse rebellious woman do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse and unto the confusion and unto the confusion nakedness of thy mother's

  • 1 Samuel 20:32 - answered And Jonathan Saul his father and said unto him Wherefore shall he be slain what hath he done

  • 1 Samuel 20:36 - And he said And as the lad Run find out now the arrows he shot And as the lad Run he shot an arrow beyond

  • 1 Samuel 20:37 - was come And when the lad to the place Is not the arrow had shot Jonathan cried Jonathan after And when the lad and said Is not the arrow beyond

  • 1 Samuel 20:40 - gave And Jonathan his artillery unto his lad and said carry them to the city

  • 1 Samuel 20:42 - said And Jonathan to David in peace forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name The LORD said The LORD and thy seed and thy seed for ever And he arose And Jonathan went into the city

  • 1 Samuel 21:1 - Then came David to Nob and Ahimelech the priest was afraid and Ahimelech at the meeting David and said unto him Why art thou alone and no man

  • 1 Samuel 21:2 - and hath said And David unto Ahimelech the priest The king hath commanded me a business and hath said unto me Let no man know any thing me a business whereabout I send hath commanded my servants know a place to such and such

  • 1 Samuel 21:4 - answered And the priest David and said bread There is no common under mine hand bread hallowed but there is have kept if the young men themselves at least from women

  • 1 Samuel 21:5 - answered And David the priest and said unto him Of a truth women have been kept days from us about these three since I came out and the vessels of the young men are holy and the bread is in a manner common this day yea though it were sanctified and the vessels

  • 1 Samuel 21:8 - said And David unto Ahimelech not And is there here under thine hand spear my sword my sword nor my weapons for I have neither brought here under thine hand required business because the king's haste

  • 1 Samuel 21:9 - said And the priest The sword of Goliath the Philistine whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah behold it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod if thou wilt take if thou wilt take it for there is no other save that here said And David There is none like that give

  • 1 Samuel 21:11 - said And the servants of Achish one to another of him and David the king of the land one to another of him did they not sing in dances said hath slain Saul his thousands and David his ten thousands