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 Kings 2:18 - said And Bathsheba Well I will speak for thee unto the king

  • 1 Kings 2:20 - Then she said petition one small I desire for I will not say me Then she said And the king I desire my mother for I will not say me

  • 1 Kings 2:21 - And she said be given Let Abishag the Shunammite to Adonijah thy brother to wife

  • 1 Kings 2:22 - answered And king Solomon and said unto his mother And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah And why dost thou ask for him the kingdom brother also for he is mine elder even for him and for Abiathar the priest and for Joab the son of Zeruiah

  • 1 Kings 2:23 - sware Then king Solomon by the LORD saying do God so to me and more also against his own life have not spoken if Adonijah this word

  • 1 Kings 2:26 - And unto Abiathar the priest said the king thee to Anathoth unto thine own fields for thou art worthy of death but I will not at this time put thee to death because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David in all wherein my father and because thou hast been afflicted and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father

  • 1 Kings 2:29 - And it was told king Solomon was fled that Joab unto the tabernacle of the LORD and behold he is by the altar sent Solomon Benaiah the son of Jehoiada saying fall

  • 1 Kings 2:30 - came And Benaiah to the tabernacle of the LORD And he said And he said the king Come forth And he said Nay but I will die again And Benaiah the king word And he said Thus said Joab and thus he answered

  • 1 Kings 2:31 - said And the king unto him Do as he hath said and fall upon him and bury him that thou mayest take away blood the innocent shed which Joab from me and from the house of my father

  • 1 Kings 2:36 - sent And the king and called for Shimei and said unto him Build thee an house in Jerusalem and dwell there and go not forth thence any whither thence any whither

  • 1 Kings 2:38 - said And Shimei the king is good The saying hath said as my lord the king do so will thy servant dwelt And Shimei in Jerusalem days many

  • 1 Kings 2:39 - And it came to pass at the end of three years ran away that two Behold thy servants Shimei unto Achish son of Maachah king be in Gath And they told Shimei saying Behold thy servants be in Gath

  • 1 Kings 2:42 - sent And the king and called for Shimei and said unto him Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD and protested and said on the day thou goest out and walkest abroad any whither abroad any whither Know Know die die and said is good unto me The word that I have heard

  • 1 Kings 2:44 - said The king moreover to Shimei Thou knowest all the wickedness Thou knowest which thine heart that thou didst to David my father shall return therefore the LORD all the wickedness upon thine own head

  • 1 Kings 3:5 - In Gibeon appeared the LORD to Solomon in a dream by night said and God Ask what I shall give

  • 1 Kings 3:6 - said And Solomon Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father kindness for him this great according as he walked before thee in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with thee and thou hast kept kindness for him this great that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne as it is this day

  • 1 Kings 3:11 - said And God and hast not asked this thing and hast not asked life for thyself long and hast not asked riches and hast not asked the life of thine enemies and hast not asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment

  • 1 Kings 3:17 - said I and this woman And the one O my lord I and this woman dwell house And the one and I was delivered of a child house

  • 1 Kings 3:22 - And this said woman And the other is my son Nay but the living is my son No but the dead And this said is my son No but the dead is my son Nay but the living Thus they spake before the king

  • 1 Kings 3:23 - Then said the king The one Then said Nay but thy son is the living Nay but thy son is the dead The one Then said Nay but thy son is the dead Nay but thy son is the living