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)


  • Ezekiel 19:2 - And say What is thy mother A lioness among lions she lay down among young lions she nourished her whelps

  • Ezekiel 20:2 - Then came the word of the LORD unto me saying

  • Ezekiel 20:3 - Son of man speak unto the elders of Israel and say and say the Lord I will not be enquired Are ye come of me As I live I will not be enquired saith the Lord

  • Ezekiel 20:5 - And say And say the Lord GOD In the day when I chose Israel and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt and lifted up mine hand And say I am the LORD your God

  • Ezekiel 20:7 - Then said every man the abominations of his eyes I unto them Cast ye away not yourselves with the idols of Egypt and defile I am the LORD your God

  • Ezekiel 20:8 - But they rebelled against me and would not hearken unto me they did not every man the abominations of their eyes cast away the idols of Egypt neither did they forsake then I said I will pour out my fury upon them to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt

  • Ezekiel 20:13 - rebelled But the house of Israel against me in the wilderness not in my statutes they walked my judgments and they despised do which if a man he shall even live in them and my sabbaths polluted they greatly then I said I would pour out my fury against me in the wilderness to consume

  • Ezekiel 20:18 - But I said unto their children in the wilderness ye not in the statutes of your fathers their judgments neither observe yourselves with their idols nor defile

  • Ezekiel 20:21 - rebelled Notwithstanding the children not in my statutes against me they walked my judgments neither kept do do them which if a man he shall even live my sabbaths in them they polluted then I said I would pour out my fury upon them to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness

  • Ezekiel 20:27 - speak unto the house of Israel Therefore son of man and say and say the Lord GOD have blasphemed Yet in this your fathers a trespass me in that they have committed

  • Ezekiel 20:29 - Then I said unto them What is the high place whereunto ye go thereof is called And the name Bamah unto this day

  • Ezekiel 20:30 - Thus saith unto the house of Israel Thus saith the Lord GOD after the manner of your fathers Are ye polluted after their abominations and commit ye whoredom

  • Ezekiel 20:32 - And that which cometh into your mind We will be We will be shall not be at all that ye say We will be as the heathen as the families of the countries to serve wood and stone

  • Ezekiel 20:39 - As for you O house of Israel thus saith the Lord GOD ye every one and with your idols ye serve and hereafter also if ye will not hearken name ye my holy unto me but pollute no more with your gifts and with your idols

  • Ezekiel 20:45 - Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying

  • Ezekiel 20:47 - And say to the forest from the south Hear the word of the LORD And say the Lord GOD Behold I will kindle a fire in thee and it shall devour tree every green tree in thee and every dry shall not be quenched the flaming flame shall be burned and all faces from the south to the north

  • Ezekiel 20:49 - they say I Ah Lord GOD they say of me Doth he not speak parables

  • Ezekiel 21:1 - And the word of the LORD came unto me saying

  • Ezekiel 21:3 - And say to the land of Israel And say the LORD Behold I am against thee and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked

  • Ezekiel 21:7 - and shall be brought to pass And it shall be when they say unto thee Wherefore sighest And it shall be when they say For the tidings because it cometh shall melt and every heart shall be feeble and all hands shall faint and every spirit and all knees as water because it cometh and shall be brought to pass saith the Lord GOD