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 Samuel 17:15 - Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests and thus and thus have I counselled Thus and thus did Ahithophel Absalom and the elders of Israel and thus and thus have I counselled
2 Samuel 17:16 - Now therefore send quickly and tell David saying Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness but speedily but speedily be swallowed up lest the king and all the people
2 Samuel 17:20 - came servants And when Absalom's And the woman to the house said Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan said And the woman unto them They be gone over the brook of water And when they had sought and could not find them they returned to Jerusalem
2 Samuel 17:21 - And it came to pass after that they came up out of the well and told king David and said David Arise over and pass quickly the water counselled for thus hath Ahithophel
2 Samuel 17:29 - And honey and butter and sheep and cheese of kine for David The people that were with him to eat for they said The people is hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness
2 Samuel 18:2 - sent forth And David of the people a third part under the hand Joab's a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah brother Joab's a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite said And the king of the people I will surely I will surely with you myself
2 Samuel 18:3 - answered But the people Thou shalt not go forth away away they will not care of us die for us neither if half they will not care for us but now thou art worth ten thousand of us therefore now it is better us out of the city that thou succour
2 Samuel 18:4 - said And the king you best unto them What seemeth I will do stood And the king side by the gate and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands
2 Samuel 18:5 - charge And the king Joab and Abishai and Ittai saying Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom And all the people heard charge And the king gave all the captains concerning Absalom
2 Samuel 18:10 - Behold I saw man And a certain it and told Joab and said Behold I saw Absalom hanged in an oak
2 Samuel 18:11 - said And Joab unto the man that told him And behold thou sawest him and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver girdle and a
2 Samuel 18:12 - said And the man unto Joab Though I should receive in mine hand a thousand shekels of silver yet would I not put forth mine hand son against the king's for in our hearing charged against the king's thee and Abishai and Ittai said Beware that none touch the young man Absalom
2 Samuel 18:14 - Then said Joab I may not tarry thus with thee And he took three darts in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was yet alive them through the heart in the midst of the oak
2 Samuel 18:18 - Absalom's had taken and reared up in his lifetime for himself a pillar dale which is in the king's for he said I have no son in remembrance after his own name and he called for himself a pillar after his own name and he called place Absalom's unto this day
2 Samuel 18:19 - Ahimaaz the son of Zadok Then said Let me now run and bear the king hath avenged how that the LORD him of his enemies
2 Samuel 18:20 - said And Joab unto him Thou shalt not bear tidings but this day but thou shalt bear tidings but this day another but this day but thou shalt bear tidings son because the king's is dead
2 Samuel 18:21 - Then said Joab And Cushi tell the king what thou hast seen bowed And Cushi Joab and ran
2 Samuel 18:22 - yet again Ahimaaz my son of Zadok Then said And Joab But howsoever Wherefore wilt thou run after Cushi Then said And Joab But howsoever Wherefore wilt thou run my son seeing that thou hast no tidings ready
2 Samuel 18:23 - But howsoever said he let me run And he said But howsoever said he let me run But howsoever said he let me run Then Ahimaaz by the way of the plain and overran Cushi
2 Samuel 18:25 - cried And the watchman and told And the king said And the king If he be alone there is tidings in his mouth apace apace and drew near