H559 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 Kings 4:2 - And she said And Elisha unto her What shall I do for thee tell me what hast hath not any thing in the house And she said Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house save a pot of oil

  • Jonah 4:2 - And he prayed thee O LORD and said I pray thee O LORD was not this my saying when I was yet in my country before Therefore I fled unto Tarshish for I knew God that thou art a gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repentest thee of the evil

  • Leviticus 4:2 - Speak unto the children of Israel saying If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD and shall do and shall do against any of them

  • Micah 4:2 - shall come nations And many and say shall come and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD and to the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his ways shall come in his paths of Zion shall go forth for the law and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem

  • Nehemiah 4:2 - And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria And he spake Jews these feeble What do will they fortify themselves will they sacrifice will they make an end in a day will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned

  • Ruth 4:2 - And he took ten men of the elders of the city and said Sit ye down Sit ye down

  • Zechariah 4:2 - And said I have looked And said I have looked and behold a candlestick all of gold upon the top of it and his seven lamps of it and his seven of it and his seven pipes lamps upon the top

  • Exodus 4:3 - And he said And he cast it on the ground And he cast it on the ground and it became a serpent fled and Moses from before

  • Ezra 4:3 - said But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel unto them Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house God but we ourselves together unto them Ye have nothing to do with us to build unto the LORD God of Israel hath commanded as king Cyrus as king of Persia

  • 1 Samuel 4:3 - unto us that when it cometh And when the people into the camp said the elders of Israel smitten Wherefore hath the LORD us to day before the Philistines Let us fetch out of Shiloh the ark of the covenant Wherefore hath the LORD unto us that when it cometh among us it may save us out of the hand of our enemies

  • 2 Kings 4:3 - Then he said borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours thee vessels even empty borrow not a few

  • Isaiah 4:3 - And it shall come to pass that he that is left in Zion and he that remaineth in Jerusalem holy shall be called even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem

  • Jeremiah 4:3 - For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem Break up your fallow ground and sow not among thorns

  • Joshua 4:3 - And command ye them saying Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan stood feet out of the place where the priests firm twelve stones and ye shall carry them over with you and leave them in the lodging place where ye shall lodge this night

  • Malachi 4:3 - And ye shall tread down the wicked for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this saith the LORD of hosts

  • Nehemiah 4:3 - Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him and he said Even that which they build go up if a fox he shall even break down wall their stone

  • Ruth 4:3 - And he said unto the kinsman a parcel of land which was our brother Elimelech's selleth Naomi that is come again of land of Moab

  • Exodus 4:4 - said And the LORD unto Moses And he put forth his hand and take it by the tail And he put forth his hand and caught it and it became a rod in his hand

  • Jonah 4:4 - Then said the LORD Doest thou well to be angry

  • Proverbs 4:4 - He taught me also and said retain my words unto me Let thine heart keep my commandments and live

  • Psalms 4:4 - Stand in awe and sin not commune with your own heart upon your bed and be still Selah

  • Ruth 4:4 - And I thought to advertise And I thought Buy it before the inhabitants and before the elders of my people I will redeem I will redeem I will redeem it then tell me that I may know it beside I will redeem thee and I am after And I thought I will redeem

  • Zechariah 4:4 - So I answered and spake to the angel that talked and spake What are these my lord

  • Jeremiah 4:5 - Declare ye in Judah in Jerusalem and publish and say Blow ye the trumpet in the land cry gather together and say Assemble yourselves and let us go cities into the defenced

  • Joshua 4:5 - said And Joshua unto them Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of Jordan and take ye up man of you a stone every upon his shoulder according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel

  • Ruth 4:5 - Then said Boaz What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi it also of Ruth the Moabitess the wife of the dead thou buyest to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance

  • Zechariah 4:5 - with me answered Then the angel that talked and said unto me Knowest and said No my lord

  • Deuteronomy 4:6 - Keep therefore and do them for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations which shall hear all these statutes and say of the nations is a wise and understanding nation Surely this great

  • Exodus 4:6 - said And the LORD furthermore And he put his hand into his bosom And he put his hand into his bosom and when he took his hand was leprous as snow

  • Genesis 4:6 - said And the LORD unto Cain Why art thou wroth fallen and why is thy countenance

  • 1 Samuel 4:6 - heard And when the Philistines What meaneth the noise of the shout they said What meaneth the noise of the shout of this great in the camp of the Hebrews And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come in the camp

  • 2 Kings 4:6 - were full And it came to pass when the vessels And he said unto her son Bring And it came to pass when the vessels And he said And it came to pass when the vessels stayed more And the oil

  • Joshua 4:6 - That this may be a sign among ask you that when your children their fathers in time to come saying What mean ye by these stones

  • Judges 4:6 - And she sent and called Barak and of the children of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali of Naphtali and said commanded unto him Hath not the LORD God of Israel and draw toward mount Tabor and take with thee ten thousand men and of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun

  • Psalms 4:6 - There be many that say Who will shew us any good lift thou up the light of thy countenance LORD

  • Ruth 4:6 - said And the kinsman I cannot And the kinsman And the kinsman it for myself lest I mar mine own inheritance And the kinsman thou my right I cannot And the kinsman

  • Zechariah 4:6 - Then he answered and spake and spake This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel and spake Not by might nor by power but by my spirit and spake of the LORD of hosts

  • Esther 4:7 - told And Mordecai him of all that had happened unto him and of the sum of the money had promised that Haman to pay treasuries to the king's for the Jews to destroy

  • Exodus 4:7 - And he said And he put his hand into his bosom And he put his hand into his bosom and plucked into his bosom And he put as his other flesh

  • 1 Samuel 4:7 - were afraid And the Philistines And they said is come God into the camp And they said Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore

  • 2 Kings 4:7 - Then she came and told the man of God And he said sell the oil and pay thy debt thou and thy children and live of the rest

  • Joshua 4:7 - Then ye shall answer were cut off the waters Jordan before the ark of the covenant of the LORD when it passed over Jordan were cut off the waters Jordan and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever

  • Genesis 4:8 - talked And Cain against Abel his brother and it came to pass when they were in the field rose up And Cain against Abel his brother and slew him

  • 2 Samuel 4:8 - And they brought Behold the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron and said the king Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy which sought thy life hath and the LORD my lord the king avenged this day of Saul and of his seed

  • Jonah 4:8 - did arise And it came to pass when the sun prepared that God wind east a vehement beat And it came to pass when the sun upon the head of Jonah that he fainted and wished in himself to die and said It is better for me to die than to live

  • Judges 4:8 - said And Barak with me then I will go with me then I will go with me then I will go with me then I will go

  • Ruth 4:8 - said Therefore the kinsman unto Boaz Buy it for thee So he drew off his shoe

  • Zechariah 4:8 - Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying

  • Genesis 4:9 - And he said And the LORD unto Cain Where is Abel not Am I my brother's And he said I know keeper not Am I my brother's

  • 1 Chronicles 4:9 - And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren and his mother called his name And Jabez saying Because I bare him with sorrow

  • 2 Kings 4:9 - And she said man Behold now I perceive man of God that this is an holy which passeth by us continually

  • 2 Samuel 4:9 - answered And David Rechab and Baanah his brother the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite and said liveth unto them As the LORD who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity

  • Jonah 4:9 - And he said And God to Jonah Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd And he said Doest thou well to be angry even unto death

  • Judges 4:9 - And she said I will surely I will surely with thee notwithstanding shall not be for thine honour the journey I will surely into the hand of a woman shall sell for the LORD Sisera arose And Deborah I will surely with Barak to Kedesh

  • Ruth 4:9 - said And Boaz unto the elders and unto all the people Ye are witnesses this day that I have bought all that was Elimelech's and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's of the hand of Naomi

  • Deuteronomy 4:10 - Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb said the LORD together me the people and I will make them hear my words and that they may teach to fear Specially the day that they shall live upon the earth their children and that they may teach

  • Esther 4:10 - spake Again Esther unto Hatach and gave him commandment unto Mordecai

  • Exodus 4:10 - said And Moses unto the LORD O my Lord am not eloquent neither heretofore nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant and of a slow of speech and of a slow tongue

  • Genesis 4:10 - And he said What hast thou done the voice blood of thy brother's crieth unto me from the ground

  • 1 Chronicles 4:10 - called And Jabez me! And God of Israel saying Oh that me indeed me indeed and enlarge my coast and that thine hand might be with me and that thou wouldest keep me from evil that it may not grieve granted me! And God him that which he requested

  • 2 Samuel 4:10 - When one told me saying is dead Behold Saul good tidings thinking to have brought I took hold of him and slew him in Ziklag who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings

  • Jeremiah 4:10 - Then said I Ah Lord GOD surely deceived deceived this people and Jerusalem Then said Ye shall have peace reacheth whereas the sword unto the soul

  • Jonah 4:10 - Then said the LORD Thou hast had pity on the gourd for the which thou hast not laboured neither madest it grow in a night in a night and perished

  • Nehemiah 4:10 - said And Judah is decayed The strength of the bearers of burdens rubbish and there is much so that we are not able to build the wall

  • Exodus 4:11 - said And the LORD or who maketh mouth man's or who maketh the dumb or deaf or the seeing or the blind And the LORD

  • Jeremiah 4:11 - At that time shall it be said of my people and to Jerusalem wind A dry of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people not to fan nor to cleanse

  • Micah 4:11 - are gathered nations Now also many against thee that say Let her be defiled look upon Zion and let our eye

  • Nehemiah 4:11 - said And our adversaries They shall not know neither see till we come among them and slay to cease them and cause the work

  • Ruth 4:11 - said And all the people that were in the gate and the elders We are witnesses make The LORD the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah did build which two into thine house of Israel and do thou worthily in Ephratah and be famous in Bethlehem

  • Zechariah 4:11 - Then answered I and said unto him What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left

  • 2 Kings 4:12 - And he said to Gehazi his servant And when he had called this Shunammite And when he had called her she stood before

  • Nehemiah 4:12 - came And it came to pass that when the Jews which dwelt by them they said unto us ten times From all places whence ye shall return

  • Zechariah 4:12 - And I answered again and said the two branches olive which through the two pipes golden empty golden

  • Esther 4:13 - commanded Then Mordecai to answer Esther Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape house in the king's more than all the Jews

  • Exodus 4:13 - And he said O my Lord of him whom thou wilt send I pray thee by the hand of him whom thou wilt send

  • Ezekiel 4:13 - said And the LORD eat Even thus shall the children of Israel bread their defiled among the Gentiles whither I will drive

  • Genesis 4:13 - said And Cain unto the LORD is greater My punishment than I can bear

  • 2 Kings 4:13 - And he said And he said now unto her Behold thou hast been careful for us with all this care what is to be done for thee wouldest thou be spoken for to the king or to the captain of the host And he said among mine own people I dwell

  • Zechariah 4:13 - And he answered And he answered Knowest And he answered No my lord

  • Exodus 4:14 - was kindled And the anger of the LORD against Moses and he said Is not Aaron thy brother the Levite I know that he can speak that he can speak And also behold he cometh forth to meet thee and when he seeth in his heart

  • Ezekiel 4:14 - Then said I Ah Lord GOD behold my soul hath not been polluted of that which dieth of itself or is torn in pieces up even till now have I not eaten for from my youth neither came into my mouth flesh there abominable

  • 1 Samuel 4:14 - heard And when Eli What meaneth the noise of the crying he said What meaneth the noise of this tumult And the man in hastily came and told And when Eli

  • 2 Kings 4:14 - And he said What then is to be done And he said for her And Gehazi Verily she hath no child and her husband is old

  • Judges 4:14 - said And Deborah thee So Barak Up for this is the day hath delivered in which the LORD Sisera into thine hand in which the LORD gone out before went down thee So Barak from mount Tabor and ten thousand men after

  • Nehemiah 4:14 - And I looked and rose up and said unto the nobles and to the rulers and to the rest of the people Be not ye afraid of them the Lord which is great Be not ye afraid remember and fight for your brethren your sons and your daughters your wives and your houses

  • Ruth 4:14 - said And the women unto Naomi Blessed be the LORD which hath not left without a kinsman thee this day may be famous that his name in Israel

  • Zechariah 4:14 - Then said he These are the two ones anointed that stand by the Lord of the whole earth

  • Esther 4:15 - bade Then Esther them return Mordecai

  • Ezekiel 4:15 - Then he said unto me Lo I have given dung thee cow's dung for man's and thou shalt prepare thy bread

  • Genesis 4:15 - said And the LORD unto him Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain on him sevenfold vengeance shall be taken set And the LORD Cain a mark lest him should kill any finding

  • 2 Kings 4:15 - And he said Call Call her she stood in the door

  • Joshua 4:15 - saying And the LORD unto Joshua saying

  • Lamentations 4:15 - depart ye it is unclean They cried depart depart touch not when they fled away and wandered they said among the heathen They shall no more sojourn

  • Ezekiel 4:16 - Moreover he said unto me Son of man behold I will break the staff bread in Jerusalem and they shall eat bread by weight and with care water by measure and with astonishment and they shall drink

  • 1 Samuel 4:16 - And he said And the man unto Eli I am he that came out of the army out of the army and I fled to day And he said What is there done my son

  • 2 Kings 4:16 - And he said About this season according to the time of life thou shalt embrace a son And he said Nay my lord thou man of God do not lie unto thine handmaid

  • 1 Samuel 4:17 - answered And the messenger and said is fled Israel before the Philistines slaughter and there hath been also a great among the people and thy two sons are dead also Hophni and Phinehas and the ark of God is taken

  • Joshua 4:17 - therefore commanded Joshua the priests saying Come ye up out of Jordan

  • Numbers 4:17 - spake And the LORD unto Moses and unto Aaron saying

  • Ruth 4:17 - and they called And the women her neighbours his name saying born There is a son to Naomi and they called his name Obed he is the father of Jesse he is the father of David