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 Samuel 11:3 - sent And David and enquired after the woman And one said Is not this Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam after the woman of Uriah the Hittite

  • 2 Samuel 11:5 - conceived And the woman and sent and told David and said I am with child

  • 2 Samuel 11:8 - said And David And Uriah Go down house and wash thy feet departed out And Uriah house of meat from the king departed out and there followed him a mess of meat from the king

  • 2 Samuel 11:10 - And when they had told David said went not down Uriah unto his house said David Uriah thou not from thy journey Camest went not down unto his house

  • 2 Samuel 11:11 - said And Uriah unto David The ark and Israel and Judah abide in tents and my lord Joab and the servants and my lord in the open fields are encamped shall I then go into mine house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife as thou livest as thou livest and as thy soul I will not do this thing

  • 2 Samuel 11:12 - said And David So Uriah Tarry here to day also and to morrow I will let thee depart Tarry So Uriah in Jerusalem here to day and the morrow

  • 2 Samuel 11:15 - And he wrote in the letter saying Set ye Uriah in the forefront battle of the hottest and retire ye from him that he may be smitten and die

  • 2 Samuel 11:19 - And charged the messenger saying When thou hast made an end the matters of the war of telling unto the king

  • 2 Samuel 11:20 - arise wrath And if so be that the king's and he say unto thee Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall

  • 2 Samuel 11:21 - Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone the wall is dead in Thebez why went ye nigh the wall then say thou Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead

  • 2 Samuel 11:23 - said And the messenger unto David prevailed against us and came out unto us into the field and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate

  • 2 Samuel 11:25 - Thus shalt thou say Then David unto the messenger Thus shalt thou say unto Joab displease Let not this thing one as well as another devoureth thee for the sword it and encourage make thy battle against the city and overthrow it and encourage

  • 2 Samuel 12:1 - sent And the LORD Nathan unto David And he came unto him and said unto him There were two men city and the other and the other rich and the other poor

  • 2 Samuel 12:5 - kindled anger And David's against the man was greatly and he said to Nathan liveth As the LORD this thing shall surely die against the man that hath done

  • 2 Samuel 12:7 - Thus saith And Nathan to David Thou art the man Thus saith the LORD God of Israel I anointed thee king of Israel and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul

  • 2 Samuel 12:11 - Thus saith the LORD Behold I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house and I will take thy wives before thine eyes and give them unto thy neighbour and he shall lie thy wives before thine eyes of this sun

  • 2 Samuel 12:13 - said And David And Nathan I have sinned The LORD said And Nathan And David The LORD also hath put away thy sin thou shalt not die

  • 2 Samuel 12:18 - day And it came to pass on the seventh died Behold while the child feared And the servants of David to tell died Behold while the child for they said Behold while the child was yet alive we spake unto him and he would not hearken unto our voice for they said died Behold while the child himself vex

  • 2 Samuel 12:19 - saw But when David that his servants whispered perceived But when David He is dead Is the child And they said But when David that his servants He is dead Is the child And they said He is dead

  • 2 Samuel 12:21 - Then said his servants unto him What thing is this that thou hast done but when the child while it was alive thou didst fast and weep was dead but when the child thou didst rise and eat bread