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 18:26 - saw And the watchman Behold another man another running called And the watchman unto the porter and said Behold another man running and said alone And the king He also bringeth tidings

  • 2 Samuel 18:27 - said And the watchman Me thinketh is like the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said And the king man He is a good tidings He is a good and cometh

  • 2 Samuel 18:28 - called And Ahimaaz and said before the king All is well And he fell down before the king upon his face to the earth and said Blessed be the LORD thy God which hath delivered up that lifted up their hand against my lord before the king

  • 2 Samuel 18:29 - answered And the king safe Is the young man Absalom answered And Ahimaaz I saw tumult a great sent and me thy servant And the king When Joab and me thy servant but I knew

  • 2 Samuel 18:30 - said And the king And he turned aside and stand here And he turned aside and stood still

  • 2 Samuel 18:31 - And behold Cushi came said And behold Cushi Tidings my lord the king hath avenged for the LORD thee this day of all them that rose up

  • 2 Samuel 18:32 - answered And the king And Cushi safe Is the young man Absalom answered And Cushi Is the young man The enemies of my lord And the king and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt

  • 2 Samuel 18:33 - was much moved And the king and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept thus he said O my son Absalom O my son O my son Absalom for thee would God I had died Absalom O my son O my son

  • 2 Samuel 19:2 - And the victory that day was turned into mourning for the people heard for the people that day say was grieved how the king for his son

  • 2 Samuel 19:5 - came And Joab to the king into the house and said Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants have saved and the lives this day and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters and the lives of thy wives and the lives of thy concubines

  • 2 Samuel 19:8 - arose Behold the king and sat in the gate And all the people And they told saying Behold the king and sat in the gate came And all the people before Behold the king for Israel had fled every man to his tent

  • 2 Samuel 19:9 - And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel saying The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom

  • 2 Samuel 19:11 - And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests saying Speak unto the elders of Judah saying Why are ye the last back And king even to his house seeing the speech of all Israel is come And king even to his house

  • 2 Samuel 19:13 - ye to Amasa And say Art thou not of my bone and of my flesh do God so to me and more also if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab

  • 2 Samuel 19:19 - And said that the king impute Let not my lord iniquity unto me neither do thou remember did perversely that which thy servant the day went out Let not my lord that the king of Jerusalem should take that the king it to his heart

  • 2 Samuel 19:21 - answered But Abishai the son of Zeruiah and said be put to death Shall not Shimei for this because he cursed anointed the LORD'S

  • 2 Samuel 19:22 - said And David What have I to do with you ye sons of Zeruiah that I am this day be adversaries that I am this day be put to death unto me shall there any man in Israel for do not I know that I am this day king in Israel

  • 2 Samuel 19:23 - said And the king unto Shimei Thou shalt not die sware And the king

  • 2 Samuel 19:25 - And it came to pass when he was come to Jerusalem to meet that the king said that the king unto him Wherefore wentest not thou with me Mephibosheth

  • 2 Samuel 19:26 - And he answered My lord O king because thy servant deceived And he answered because thy servant I will saddle me an ass that I may ride O king is lame because thy servant