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 26:25 - said Then Saul David Blessed be thou my son David great great prevail prevail David on his way Then Saul returned to his place
1 Samuel 27:1 - said And David in his heart I shall now perish day one by the hand and Saul there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily I should speedily into the land of the Philistines shall despair and Saul of me to seek me any more in any coast of Israel I should speedily by the hand
1 Samuel 27:5 - said And David unto Achish If I have now found grace in thine eyes let them give me a place in some city in the country dwell dwell there for why should thy servant city in the royal
1 Samuel 27:10 - said And Achish Whither have ye made a road to day said And David Against the south of Judah Against the south of the Jerahmeelites Against the south of the Kenites
1 Samuel 27:11 - neither man nor woman alive And David to bring tidings to Gath on us saying Lest they should tell on us saying So did And David and so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines
1 Samuel 27:12 - believed And Achish David saying to abhor to abhor He hath made his people Israel him therefore he shall be my servant for ever
1 Samuel 28:1 - And it came to pass in those days gathered that the Philistines their armies for warfare to fight with Israel said And Achish unto David Know Know that thou shalt go out their armies
1 Samuel 28:2 - said And David And Achish Surely thou shalt know can do what thy servant said And Achish And David Surely thee keeper of mine head Therefore will I make for ever
1 Samuel 28:7 - Then said Saul of her And his servants Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit to her and enquire Then said of her And his servants me a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor
1 Samuel 28:8 - disguised And Saul himself and put on raiment other and two men with him and they came to the woman by night and he said I pray thee divine unto me by the familiar spirit and bring me him up and he said
1 Samuel 28:9 - said And the woman unto him Behold thou knowest hath done what Saul how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits and the wizards out of the land wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life to cause me to die
1 Samuel 28:10 - sware And Saul As the LORD saying liveth As the LORD there shall happen no punishment to thee for this thing
1 Samuel 28:11 - Then said the woman Bring me up Then said Samuel Bring me up
1 Samuel 28:12 - saw And when the woman Samuel she cried voice with a loud saying And when the woman me for thou art Saul saying Why hast thou deceived me for thou art Saul
1 Samuel 28:13 - said And the king unto her Be not afraid I saw said thou And the woman unto Saul gods I saw ascending out of the earth
1 Samuel 28:14 - And he said unto her What form And he said man An old cometh up and he is covered with a mantle perceived And Saul that it was Samuel and he stooped with his face to the ground and bowed
1 Samuel 28:15 - answered And Samuel And Saul Why hast thou disquieted me to bring me up answered And Saul distressed I am sore for the Philistines make war against me and God is departed from me and answereth me no more neither by prophets nor by dreams therefore I have called thee that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do
1 Samuel 28:16 - Then said Samuel Wherefore then dost thou ask of me seeing the LORD is departed from thee and is become thine enemy
1 Samuel 28:21 - came And the woman unto Saul and saw troubled that he was sore and said and have hearkened unto him Behold thine handmaid thy voice and I have put my life in my hand and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest
1 Samuel 28:23 - But he refused and said I will not eat compelled But his servants together with the woman him and he hearkened unto their voice So he arose from the earth and sat upon the bed