To say
אֲמַרStrong’s H0560amar (a-mar)
Appears in 65 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Amar is the Aramaic word usually translated “saying”, “said” and “tell”. It appears in 65 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.”
Meaning
- (P'al) to say, to speak, to command, to tell, to relate
How it's translated
- and saying 32
- he said 11
- saying 8
- and he said 4
- tell 4
- we said 2
- to say 2
- you will say 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 59
- Ezra 5
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:5In contextThe king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
- Daniel 2:7In contextThey answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it.
- Daniel 2:8In contextThe king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
- Daniel 2:9In contextBut if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.
- Daniel 2:10In contextThe Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
- Daniel 2:12In contextFor this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
Aramaic dictionary
אֲמַר amar · to say
(P'al) to say, to speak, to command, to tell, to relate Aramaic of a.mar (אָמַר "to say" H0559)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “say” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SAY, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive said, contracted from sayed.
- To speak; to utter in words; as, he said nothing; he said many things; he says not a word. say a good word for me.
- To declare.
- To utter; to pronounce.“SAY now Shibboleth” Judges 12:6
- To utter, as a command.“God said, let there be light” Genesis 1:3
All definitions and other forms of “say”
- To utter, as a promise. Luke 23:29
- To utter, as a question or answer. Mark 11:3
- To affirm; to teach. Matthew 17:10
- To confess. Luke 17:6
- To testify. Acts 26:22
- To argue; to allege by way of argument.
- To repeat; to rehearse; to recite; as, to say a lesson.
- To pronounce; to recite without singing.
- To report; as in the phrases, it is said, they say
- To answer; to utter by way of reply; to tell.
SAY, noun
A speech; something said. [In popular use, but not elegant.]
SAY, noun
[for assay.]
- A sample. obsolete
- Trial by sample. obsolete
SAY, noun
A thin silk. obsolete
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.