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 7:5 - and said Then the king Ahasuerus and said unto Esther the queen Who is he and where is he that durst presume in his heart to do

  • Esther 7:6 - said And Esther The adversary and enemy Haman is this wicked Haman was afraid before the king and the queen

  • Esther 7:8 - Then the king returned garden out of the palace also before me in the house of the banquet of wine Haman's was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was Then said Then the king Will he force the queen also before me in the house As the word went out mouth Then the king face Haman's they covered

  • Esther 7:9 - said And Harbonah one of the chamberlains before Then the king Behold also the gallows had made of Haman for Mordecai who had spoken good Then the king standeth in the house of Haman high fifty cubits said Then the king Hang

  • Esther 8:5 - And said the king If it please and if I have found favour before seem right and the thing before the king If it please in his eyes let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite let it be written to destroy the Jews provinces the king

  • Esther 8:7 - said Then the king Ahasuerus Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew the house of Haman Behold I have given Esther and him they have hanged upon the gallows because he laid his hand the Jew

  • Esther 9:12 - said And the king unto Esther the queen in Shushan the palace have slain The Jews and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman in the rest provinces And the king and it shall be done now what is thy petition and it shall be granted thee or what is thy request further and it shall be done

  • Esther 9:13 - Then said Esther the king If it please let it be granted to morrow to the Jews which are in Shushan to do decree also according unto this day's ten sons and let Haman's be hanged upon the gallows

  • Esther 9:14 - commanded And the king it so to be done was given and the decree at Shushan ten sons Haman's and they hanged

  • Esther 9:25 - But when Esther came before the king he commanded by letters should return device that his wicked which he devised against the Jews upon his own head should be hanged and that he and his sons on the gallows

  • Exodus 1:9 - And he said Behold the people Behold the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier

  • Exodus 1:15 - spake And the king of Egypt midwives to the Hebrew and the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah

  • Exodus 1:16 - And he said When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women and see them upon the stools if it be a son then ye shall kill him but if it be a daughter then she shall live

  • Exodus 1:18 - called And the king of Egypt for the midwives and said unto them Why have ye done this thing alive the men children

  • Exodus 1:19 - said And the midwives unto Pharaoh women are not as the Egyptian women Because the Hebrew for they are lively ere come in And the midwives And the midwives

  • Exodus 1:22 - charged And Pharaoh all his people saying Every son that is born into the river ye shall cast and every daughter ye shall save alive

  • Exodus 2:6 - And when she had opened it she saw children and behold the babe wept And she had compassion on him and said children This is one of the Hebrews

  • Exodus 2:7 - Then said his sister daughter to Pharaoh's and call women that she may nurse of the Hebrew that she may nurse the child

  • Exodus 2:8 - said daughter And Pharaoh's And the maid and called mother the child's

  • Exodus 2:9 - said daughter And Pharaoh's the child and nurse it for me and I will give thee thy wages took And the woman the child and nursed