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)


  • 2 Kings 13:16 - And he said to the king of Israel And he put hands upon the bow And he put hands put upon it and Elisha hands hands to the king

  • 2 Kings 13:17 - And he said And he opened the window eastward And he opened And he said it Then Elisha And he shot And he shot And he said The arrow deliverance of the LORD'S The arrow deliverance from Syria for thou shalt smite from Syria in Aphek till thou have consumed

  • 2 Kings 13:18 - And he said And he took the arrows And he took And he said unto the king of Israel And he smote upon the ground And he smote thrice and stayed

  • 2 Kings 13:19 - was wroth And the man of God with him and said Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times Thou shouldest have smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed but thrice times Thou shouldest have smitten Syria

  • 2 Kings 14:6 - But the children of the murderers be put to death not according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses commanded wherein the LORD saying be put to death The fathers But the children But the children be put to death The fathers but every man for his own sin be put to death

  • 2 Kings 14:8 - sent Then Amaziah messengers to Jehoash son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu king of Israel saying let us look one another in the face

  • 2 Kings 14:9 - sent And Jehoash king of Israel to Amaziah king of Judah saying The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon saying Give thy daughter to my son to wife and there passed beast by a wild that was in Lebanon and trode down The thistle

  • 2 Kings 15:12 - This was the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu saying Thy sons unto the fourth shall sit on the throne of Israel

  • 2 Kings 16:7 - sent So Ahaz messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria saying I am thy servant and thy son come up and save and out of the hand king of Syria and out of the hand king of Israel which rise up

  • 2 Kings 16:15 - commanded And king Ahaz Urijah the priest saying altar Upon the great burn burnt offering the morning and his meat offering and the evening burnt offering And king and his meat offering burnt offering of all the people of the land and his meat offering and their drink offerings and all the blood burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice and sprinkle altar and the brasen shall be for me to enquire

  • 2 Kings 17:12 - For they served idols had said whereof the LORD unto them Ye shall not do this thing

  • 2 Kings 17:13 - testified Yet the LORD against Israel and against Judah by all the prophets and by all the seers saying Turn ways ye from your evil and keep my commandments and my statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers and which I sent by my servants all the prophets

  • 2 Kings 17:26 - Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria Wherefore they spake The nations which thou hast removed and placed in the cities of Samaria know not the manner of the God of the land therefore he hath sent lions among them and behold they slay know not the manner of the God of the land

  • 2 Kings 17:27 - commanded Then the king of Assyria saying thither one of the priests whom ye brought and dwell there and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land

  • 2 Kings 17:35 - had made With whom the LORD a covenant and charged them saying Ye shall not fear gods other nor bow yourselves to them nor serve them nor sacrifice

  • 2 Kings 18:14 - sent And Hezekiah And the king of Judah And the king of Assyria to Lachish saying I have offended return from me that which thou puttest on me will I bear appointed And the king of Assyria And Hezekiah And the king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold

  • 2 Kings 18:19 - Thus saith And Rabshakeh Thus saith ye now to Hezekiah Thus saith king the great king of Assyria What confidence is this wherein thou trustest

  • 2 Kings 18:20 - Thou sayest words but they are but vain I have counsel and strength for the war Now on whom dost thou trust that thou rebellest

  • 2 Kings 18:22 - But if ye say in the LORD our God unto me We trust hath taken away Hezekiah is not that he whose high places and whose altars But if ye say to Judah and Jerusalem before and whose altars Ye shall worship and Jerusalem

  • 2 Kings 18:25 - without it The LORD Am I now come up against this place and destroy it The LORD said Am I now come up against this land and destroy