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)


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

  • 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

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

  • Esther 5:3 - Then said the king Esther unto her What wilt thou queen and what is thy request thee to the half of the kingdom it shall be even given

  • Esther 5:4 - answered And Esther let the king If it seem good come let the king and Haman this day unto the banquet that I have prepared

  • Esther 5:5 - said So the king to make haste Cause Haman had prepared hath said as Esther came So the king Cause Haman to the banquet had prepared as Esther

  • Esther 5:6 - said And the king unto Esther at the banquet of wine What is thy petition and it shall be granted thee and what is thy request even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed

  • Esther 5:7 - Then answered Esther and said My petition and my request

  • Esther 5:12 - said Haman did let no man come in moreover Yea Esther the queen unto her also with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king

  • Esther 5:14 - Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends and he caused the gallows high of fifty cubits and to morrow Then said thou unto the king may be hanged that Mordecai thereon then go thou unto the king unto the banquet thou in merrily pleased And the thing Haman and he caused the gallows

  • Esther 6:1 - On that night could not sleep the king and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles and they were read before the king

  • Esther 6:3 - for this Then said And the king done What honour and dignity to Mordecai for this Then said servants And the king that ministered done unto him There is nothing

  • Esther 6:4 - said And the king Who is in the court Now Haman was come Who is in the court house And the king into the outward said And the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared

  • Esther 6:5 - said servants And the king unto him Behold Haman standeth in the court said And the king Let him come in

  • Esther 6:6 - came in Now Haman said And the king to do unto the man And the king delight honour said Now Haman in his heart delight And the king to do honour more

  • Esther 6:7 - answered And Haman the king For the man the king delighteth to honour

  • Esther 6:10 - said Then the king to Haman Make haste and take the apparel and the horse as thou hast said and do even so to Mordecai the Jew that sitteth gate Then the king fail let nothing as thou hast said

  • Esther 6:13 - told And Haman Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him Then said his wise men Zeresh his wife be of the seed of the Jews unto him If Mordecai whom thou hast begun against him but shalt surely before thou shalt not prevail against him but shalt surely against him but shalt surely before

  • Esther 7:2 - said And the king Esther day on the second at the banquet of wine What is thy petition Esther queen and it shall be granted thee and what is thy request even to the half of the kingdom and it shall be performed

  • Esther 7:3 - answered Then Esther the queen and said If I have found favour in thy sight O king O king and if it please be given let my life me at my petition and my people at my request