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 19:29 - I have said And the king unto him Why speakest thou any more of thy matters I have said Thou and Ziba divide the land

  • 2 Samuel 19:30 - said And Mephibosheth the king Yea let him take all forasmuch as is come again my lord the king in peace unto his own house

  • 2 Samuel 19:33 - said And the king unto Barzillai Come thou over with me and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem

  • 2 Samuel 19:34 - said And Barzillai unto the king How long that I should go up unto the king unto Jerusalem

  • 2 Samuel 19:38 - answered And the king shall go Chimham of me that will I do to him that which shall seem good unto thee and whatsoever thou shalt require of me that will I do

  • 2 Samuel 19:41 - And behold all the men of Israel came the king and said the king stolen thee away Why have our brethren And behold all the men of Judah and have brought the king and his household with him over Jordan And behold all the men and all David's

  • 2 Samuel 19:43 - answered And the men of Israel And the men of Judah and said We have ten parts in the king have also more right in David and we than ye why then did ye despise And the words should not be first had in bringing back in the king were fiercer And the words And the men of Judah And the words And the men of Israel

  • 2 Samuel 20:1 - And there happened every of Belial whose name was Sheba in the son of Bichri every and he blew a trumpet and said We have no part in David neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse every to his tents O Israel

  • 2 Samuel 20:4 - Then said the king to Amasa Assemble me the men of Judah within three days and be thou here present

  • 2 Samuel 20:6 - said And David to Abishai do us more harm Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri than did Absalom take servants thou thy lord's and pursue after him lest he get cities him fenced and escape us

  • 2 Samuel 20:9 - said And Joab Amasa Art thou in health my brother took hand with the right And Joab by the beard Amasa to kiss

  • 2 Samuel 20:11 - And one stood men Joab by him and said He that favoureth Joab He and he that is for David let him go after Joab

  • 2 Samuel 20:16 - Then cried woman a wise out of the city Hear Hear say I pray you unto Joab Come near hither that I may speak

  • 2 Samuel 20:17 - And when he was come near And he answered unto her the woman Art thou Joab And he answered And he answered I do hear the words of thine handmaid And he answered I do hear

  • 2 Samuel 20:18 - Then she spake Then she spake They were wont They were wont in old time Then she spake They shall surely They shall surely counsel at Abel and so they ended

  • 2 Samuel 20:20 - answered And Joab and said Far be it Far be it from me that I should swallow up or destroy

  • 2 Samuel 20:21 - The matter is not so but a man of mount Ephraim Sheba the son of Bichri by name hath lifted up his hand against the king even against David deliver from the city said And the woman unto Joab Behold his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall

  • 2 Samuel 21:1 - Then there was a famine in the days and David three year year after year enquired and David of And the LORD answered And the LORD It is for Saul house and for his bloody because he slew the Gibeonites

  • 2 Samuel 21:2 - called And the king the Gibeonites and said the Gibeonites and the children of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites and the children of Israel had sworn sought unto them and Saul to slay them in his zeal and the children of Israel and Judah

  • 2 Samuel 21:3 - said Wherefore David unto the Gibeonites What shall I do for you and wherewith shall I make the atonement that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD