Quick Definition
word
Strong's Definition
something said
Derivation: from H559 (אָמַר);
KJV Usage: answer, [idiom] appointed unto him, saying, speech, word.
TWOT Reference: 118a
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
אֵמֶר (e.mer) — word. utterance, speech, word, saying, promise, command
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · אמר
Speak | ≈ דָּבָר · הָגִיג · הִגָּיֹון · מַחֲשָׁבָה · מִלָּה · מִצְוָה · נְאֻם · עֵצָה · תֹּורָה · תְּפִלָּה
word, saying, decree = words spoken by humans and deities; often remembered and recorded
GEN 49:21 · NUM 24:4 · NUM 24:16 · DEU 32:1 · JOS 24:27 · JDG 5:29 · JOB 6:10 · JOB 6:25 · JOB 6:26 · JOB 8:2 · JOB 20:29 · JOB 22:22 · JOB 23:12 · JOB 32:12 · JOB 32:14 · JOB 33:3 · JOB 34:37 · PSA 5:2 · PSA 19:15 · PSA 54:4 · PSA 78:1 · PSA 107:11 · PSA 138:4 · PSA 141:6 · PRO 1:2 · PRO 1:21 · PRO 2:1 · PRO 2:16 · PRO 4:5 · PRO 4:10 · PRO 4:20 · PRO 5:7 · PRO 6:2 · PRO 6:2 · PRO 7:1 · PRO 7:5 · PRO 7:24 · PRO 8:8 · PRO 15:26 · PRO 16:24 · PRO 17:27 · PRO 19:7 · PRO 19:27 · PRO 22:21 · PRO 22:21 · PRO 23:12 · ISA 32:7 · ISA 41:26 · HOS 6:5
noun m · אמר
1 GEN 49:21 HOTTP-A RSV NIV NJPS NJB NRSV GNT CEV [2] | HOTTP-A other possibility [1] | REB אָמִיר = "branch"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
אֹמֶר n.m. utterance, speech, word, only poet., & exalted style base