אָמַר ʼâmar

Meaning

to say (used with great latitude)

In the King James Version: 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.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Psalms 94:4 They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.
• Psalms 94:7 They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”
• Psalms 94:18 If I say, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O LORD, supports me.
• Psalms 95:10 For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
• Psalms 96:10 Declare among the nations: “The LORD reigns!” The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity.
• Psalms 102:24 I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.
• Psalms 105:11 “I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”
• Psalms 105:31 He spoke, and insects swarmed—gnats throughout their country.
• Psalms 105:34 He spoke, and the locusts came—young locusts without number.
• Psalms 106:23 So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.
• Psalms 106:34 They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,
• Psalms 106:48 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!
• Psalms 107:2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy
• Psalms 107:25 For He spoke and raised a tempest that lifted the waves of the sea.
• Psalms 115:2 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
• Psalms 116:11 In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”
• Psalms 118:2 Let Israel say, “His loving devotion endures forever.”
• Psalms 118:3 Let the house of Aaron say, “His loving devotion endures forever.”
• Psalms 118:4 Let those who fear the LORD say, “His loving devotion endures forever.”
• Psalms 119:57 The LORD is my portion; I have promised to keep Your words.
• Psalms 119:82 My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”
• Psalms 122:1 A song of ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”
• Psalms 124:1 A song of ascents. Of David. If the LORD had not been on our side—let Israel now declare—
• Psalms 126:2 Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”
• Psalms 129:1 A song of ascents. Many a time they have persecuted me from my youth—let Israel now declare—
• Psalms 129:8 May none who pass by say to them, “The blessing of the LORD be on you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.”
• Psalms 137:7 Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”
• Psalms 139:11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
• Psalms 139:20 who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain.
• Psalms 140:6 I say to the LORD, “You are my God.” Hear, O LORD, my cry for help.
• Psalms 142:5 I cry to You, O LORD: “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
• Psalms 145:6 They will proclaim the power of Your awesome deeds, and I will declare Your greatness.
• Psalms 145:11 They will tell of the glory of Your kingdom and speak of Your might,
• Proverbs 1:11 If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
• Proverbs 1:21 in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:
• Proverbs 3:28 Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”—when you already have the means.
• Proverbs 4:4 he taught me and said, “Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands and you will live.
• Proverbs 5:12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
• Proverbs 7:4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman,
• Proverbs 7:13 She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:
• Proverbs 9:4 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.
• Proverbs 9:16 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.
• Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?
• Proverbs 20:14 “Worthless, worthless!” says the buyer, but on the way out, he gloats.
• Proverbs 20:22 Do not say, “I will avenge this evil!” Wait on the LORD, and He will save you.
• Proverbs 22:13 The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”
• Proverbs 23:7 for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
• Proverbs 24:12 If you say, “Behold, we did not know about this,” does not He who weighs hearts consider it? Does not the One who guards your life know? Will He not repay a man according to his deeds?
• Proverbs 24:24 Whoever tells the guilty, “You are innocent”—peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him;
• Proverbs 24:29 Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”
• Proverbs 25:7 for it is better to be told, “Come up here!” than to be demoted in the presence of the prince. Even what you have seen with your own eyes,
• Proverbs 26:13 The slacker says, “A lion is in the road! A fierce lion roams the public square!”
• Proverbs 26:19 so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”
• Proverbs 28:24 He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.
• Proverbs 30:9 Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.
• Proverbs 30:15 The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’:
• Proverbs 30:16 Sheol, the barren womb, land never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, ‘Enough!’
• Proverbs 30:20 This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
• Ecclesiastes 1:2 “Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
• Ecclesiastes 1:10 Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.