Strong's Concordance H559

Original Word: אָמַר
Transliteration: ʼâmar
Phonetic Spelling: aw-mar'
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, × desire, determine, × expressly, × indeed, × intend, name, × plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), × still, × suppose, talk, tell, term, × that is, × think, use (speech), utter, × verily, × yet.

Usages throughout the bible

2 Chronicles 32:24 - In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake H559 unto him, and he gave him a sign.

2 Chronicles 33:4 - Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, H559 In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

2 Chronicles 33:7 - And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said H559 to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

2 Chronicles 33:16 - And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded H559 Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 34:15 - And Hilkiah answered and said H559 to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.

2 Chronicles 34:16 - And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, H559 All that was committed to thy servants, they do it.

2 Chronicles 34:18 - Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, H559 Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

2 Chronicles 34:20 - And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying, H559

2 Chronicles 34:23 - And she answered H559 them, Thus saith H559 the LORD God of Israel, Tell H559 ye the man that sent you to me,

2 Chronicles 34:24 - Thus saith H559 the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:

2 Chronicles 34:26 - And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the LORD, so shall ye say H559 unto him, Thus saith H559 the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard;

2 Chronicles 35:3 - And said H559 unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,

2 Chronicles 35:21 - But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, H559 What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded H559 me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.

2 Chronicles 35:23 - And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said H559 to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.

2 Chronicles 35:25 - And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake H559 of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

2 Chronicles 36:22 - Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, H559

2 Chronicles 36:23 - Thus saith H559 Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.

Ezra 1:1 - Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, H559

Ezra 1:2 - Thus saith H559 Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Ezra 2:63 - And the Tirshatha said H559 unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

Ezra 4:2 - Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said H559 unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.

Ezra 4:3 - But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said H559 unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.

Ezra 8:22 - For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken H559 unto the king, saying, H559 The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.

Ezra 8:28 - And I said H559 unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers.

Ezra 9:1 - Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, H559 The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Ezra 9:6 - And said, H559 O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.

Ezra 9:10 - And now, O our God, what shall we say H559 after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

Ezra 9:11 - Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, H559 The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.

Ezra 10:2 - And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said H559 unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.

Ezra 10:10 - And Ezra the priest stood up, and said H559 unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.

Ezra 10:12 - Then all the congregation answered and said H559 with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.

Nehemiah 1:3 - And they said H559 unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.

Nehemiah 1:5 - And said, H559 I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:

Nehemiah 1:8 - Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, H559 If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:

Nehemiah 2:2 - Wherefore the king said H559 unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,

Nehemiah 2:3 - And said H559 unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

Nehemiah 2:4 - Then the king said H559 unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.

Nehemiah 2:5 - And I said H559 unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.

Nehemiah 2:6 - And the king said H559 unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

Nehemiah 2:7 - Moreover I said H559 unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;

Nehemiah 2:17 - Then said H559 I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

Nehemiah 2:18 - Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken H559 unto me. And they said, H559 Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.

Nehemiah 2:19 - But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, H559 What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?

Nehemiah 2:20 - Then answered I them, and said H559 unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 4:2 - And he spake H559 before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, H559 What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

Nehemiah 4:3 - Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, H559 Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

Nehemiah 4:10 - And Judah said, H559 The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

Nehemiah 4:11 - And our adversaries said, H559 They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.

Nehemiah 4:12 - And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said H559 unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.

Nehemiah 4:14 - And I looked, and rose up, and said H559 unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.