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)


  • Deuteronomy 33:20 - And of Gad he said Blessed be he that enlargeth And of Gad as a lion he dwelleth and teareth the arm with the crown of the head

  • Deuteronomy 33:22 - And of Dan he said And of Dan whelp is a lion's he shall leap from Bashan

  • Deuteronomy 33:23 - And of Naphtali he said And of Naphtali satisfied with favour and full with the blessing of the LORD thou the west and the south possess

  • Deuteronomy 33:24 - And of Asher he said be blessed with children And of Asher let him be acceptable to his brethren and let him dip in oil his foot

  • Deuteronomy 33:27 - is thy refuge God The eternal arms and underneath are the everlasting and he shall thrust out from before the enemy thee and shall say Destroy

  • Deuteronomy 34:4 - said And the LORD unto him This is the land which I sware unto Abraham unto Isaac and unto Jacob said it unto thy seed I will give I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes but thou shalt not go over

  • Ecclesiastes 1:2 - Vanity Vanity saith the Preacher Vanity Vanity Vanity

  • Ecclesiastes 1:10 - Is there any thing whereof it may be said See this is new it hath been already of old time which was before

  • Ecclesiastes 1:16 - I communed with mine own heart saying Lo I am come to great estate and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem with mine own heart experience had great more wisdom and knowledge

  • Ecclesiastes 2:1 - I said in mine heart I will prove thee with mirth therefore enjoy pleasure and behold this also is vanity

  • Ecclesiastes 2:2 - of laughter I said It is mad and of mirth What doeth

  • Ecclesiastes 2:15 - said I in my heart As it happeneth to the fool even to me so it happeneth wise Then and why was I then more Then I said I in my heart even to me that this also is vanity

  • Ecclesiastes 3:17 - I said in mine heart the righteous and the wicked shall judge God for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work

  • Ecclesiastes 3:18 - I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men might manifest that God them and that they might see that they themselves are beasts that they that they

  • Ecclesiastes 5:6 - Suffer not thy mouth to sin to cause thy flesh neither say thou before the angel that it was an error be angry wherefore should God at thy voice and destroy the work of thine hands

  • Ecclesiastes 6:3 - beget If a man an hundred of his years be many children and live be many so that the days of his years and his soul be not filled is better and also that he have no burial I say is better that an untimely birth

  • Ecclesiastes 7:10 - Say days not thou What is the cause that the former were better wisely than these for thou dost not enquire

  • Ecclesiastes 7:23 - All this have I proved by wisdom I said I will be wise but it was far

  • Ecclesiastes 7:27 - Behold this have I found saith the preacher by one by one this have I found the account

  • Ecclesiastes 8:4 - Where the word of a king is there is power and who may say unto him What doest