Strong H559אָמַר
to say
- Transliteration
- 'âmar
- Pronunciation
- aw-mar'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
A primitive root; to say (used with great latitude): - {answer} {appoint} {avouch} {bid} boast {self} {call} {certify} {challenge} {charge} + (at {the} give) command ({ment}) {commune} {consider} {declare} {demand} X {desire} {determine} X {expressly} X {indeed} X {intend} {name} X {plainly} {promise} {publish} {report} {require} {say} speak ({against} {of}) X {still} X {suppose} {talk} {tell} {term} X that {is} X {think} use {[speech]} {utter} X {verily} X yet.
Detailed definition
1) to say, speak, utter
1a) (Qal) to say, to answer, to say in one's heart, to think, to command, to promise, to intend
1b) (Niphal) to be told, to be said, to be called
1c) (Hithpael) to boast, to act proudly
1d) (Hiphil) to avow, to avouch
Aramaic equivalent: a.mar (אֲמַר "to say" H560)
1a) (Qal) to say, to answer, to say in one's heart, to think, to command, to promise, to intend
1b) (Niphal) to be told, to be said, to be called
1c) (Hithpael) to boast, to act proudly
1d) (Hiphil) to avow, to avouch
Aramaic equivalent: a.mar (אֲמַר "to say" H560)
In the Bible
Strong H559 appears in 4,335 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- say3,749
- saith555
- spake108
- answer98
- speak46
- tell42
- command27
- thou22
- saidst18
- think13
- spoken13
- speaketh7
First verses
- Genesis 1:3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
- Genesis 1:6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
- Genesis 1:9And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
- Genesis 1:11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
- Genesis 1:14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
- Genesis 1:20And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
- Genesis 1:22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
- Genesis 1:24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
- Genesis 1:26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- Genesis 1:28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
- Genesis 1:29And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
- Genesis 2:16And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
- Genesis 2:18And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
- Genesis 2:23And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
- Genesis 3:1Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
- Genesis 3:2And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
- Genesis 3:3But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
- Genesis 3:4And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
- Genesis 3:9And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
- Genesis 3:10And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
Occurrences by book
- Genesis496
- Exodus246
- Leviticus75
- Numbers225
- Deuteronomy134
- Joshua113
- Judges221
- Ruth44
- 1 Samuel337
- 2 Samuel258
- 1 Kings244
- 2 Kings244
- 1 Chronicles65
- 2 Chronicles145
- Ezra14
- Nehemiah55
- Esther44
- Job94
- Psalms97
- Proverbs25
- Ecclesiastes20
- Song of Songs2
- Isaiah212
- Jeremiah379
- Lamentations10
- Ezekiel280
- Daniel22
- Hosea20
- Joel4
- Amos45
- Obadiah2
- Jonah20
- Micah10
- Nahum2
- Habakkuk3
- Zephaniah5
- Haggai19
- Zechariah74
- Malachi30
Related words
Word family
- אוֹמָרOmarH201
- אֲמַרְיָ֫הוּAmariahH568N
- אֲמַרְיָ֫הוּAmariahH568I
- אֲמַרְיָ֫הוּAmariahH568H
- אִמֵּרImmerH564I
- אֲמַרְיָ֫הוּAmariahH568G
- אִמֵּרImmerH564H
- אֲמַרְיָ֫הוּAmariahH568J
- מַאֲמַרcommandH3982
- אִמֵּרImmerH564J
- אֲמַרְיָ֫הוּAmariahH568L
- אִמֵּרImmerH564G
- אֲמַרְיָ֫הוּAmariahH568M
- אֲמַרְיָ֫הוּAmariahH568O
- אֲמַרְיָ֫הוּAmariahH568K
- אֱמֹרִיAmoriteH567
- אָמִירtopH534
- אֵמֶרwordH561