# H559 אָמַר

אָמַר (ʼâmar), Strong’s H559: to say (used with great latitude) KJV: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, [phrase]…. Occurs 5,307 times.

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*ʼâmar* — to say (used with great latitude)

KJV: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, [phrase]…

Occurs 5307 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אָמַר 5287 vb. utter, say
- Qal
- 1 Say
- 2 Say in the heart (= think)
- 3 Promise
- 4 Command (esp. late)
- Niph. be said, told
- Hiph. avow, avouch (lit. cause to declare)
- Hithp. act proudly, boast

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 1:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=3) — God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
- [Genesis 1:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=6) — God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
- [Genesis 1:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=9) — God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.
- [Genesis 1:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=11) — God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their…
- [Genesis 1:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=14) — God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to…
- [Genesis 1:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=20) — God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the…
- [Genesis 1:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=22) — God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the…
- [Genesis 1:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=24) — God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the…
- [Genesis 1:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=26) — God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over…
- [Genesis 1:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=28) — God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish…