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;
2 Kings 6:21 - said And the king of Israel unto Elisha when he saw shall I smite shall I smite them My father
2 Kings 6:22 - And he answered Thou shalt not smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow Thou shalt not smite set bread and water before them that they may eat and drink to their master
2 Kings 6:26 - And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall a woman there cried unto him saying Help my lord And as the king
2 Kings 6:27 - And he said do not help If the LORD thee whence do not help thee out of the barnfloor or out of the winepress
2 Kings 6:28 - said And the king said This woman said unto me Give my son and we will eat him to day my son and we will eat to morrow
2 Kings 6:29 - So we boiled her son and did eat him and I said day unto her on the next Give her son and did eat him and she hath hid her son
2 Kings 6:31 - Then he said do God so and more shall stand also to me if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat on him this day
2 Kings 6:32 - But Elisha sat in his house and the elders sat hath sent a man from before came him but ere the messenger to him he said and the elders See hath sent ye how this son of a murderer to take away mine head See came him but ere the messenger shut at the door and hold him fast at the door is not the sound feet of his master's behind
2 Kings 6:33 - And while he yet talked with them behold the messenger came down unto him and he said Behold this evil for the LORD what should I wait for the LORD
2 Kings 7:1 - Thus saith Then Elisha Hear ye the word of the LORD Thus saith of the LORD about this time To morrow and two measures of fine flour be sold for a shekel and two measures of barley be sold for a shekel in the gate of Samaria
2 Kings 7:2 - answered Then a lord the king leaned on whose hand the man of God and said Behold if the LORD would make windows in heaven might this thing and said Behold thou shalt see it with thine eyes but shalt not eat
2 Kings 7:3 - And there were four one leprous at the entering in of the gate and they said one to another Why sit we here until we die
2 Kings 7:4 - If we say We will enter into the city then the famine into the city and if they kill there and if we sit still and if they kill and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians if they save us alive if they save us alive and if they kill and if they kill
2 Kings 7:6 - For the Lord to hear had made the host of the Syrians a noise of chariots a noise of horses a noise host of a great and they said one to another hath hired Lo the king of Israel Lo the king of the Hittites Lo the king of the Egyptians to come
2 Kings 7:9 - Then they said one to another We do is a day is a day of good tidings and we hold our peace if we tarry light till the morning will come some mischief that we may go and tell household the king's
2 Kings 7:10 - So they came and called unto the porter of the city and they told them saying So they came to the camp of the Syrians and behold there was no man there neither voice of man but horses tied and asses tied and the tents
2 Kings 7:12 - arose And the king in the night and said unto his servants I will now shew have done you what the Syrians to us They know that we be hungry When they come out of the camp to hide themselves in the field and said When they come out into the city we shall catch them alive into the city and get
2 Kings 7:13 - answered And one of his servants and said Let some take I pray thee five of the horses that are left that are left in it behold I say they are even as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it behold I say they are even as all the multitude of Israel that are consumed and let us send and see
2 Kings 7:14 - They took therefore two chariot horses sent and the king after the host of the Syrians saying and see
2 Kings 7:18 - had spoken And it came to pass as the man of God to the king saying Two measures of barley for a shekel Two measures of fine flour for a shekel about this time shall be to morrow in the gate of Samaria