Definition

{to say (used with great latitude)}

Etymology

(Aramaic) corresponding to H559 (אָמַר)

Word family

• אָמַר ʼâmar

How the KJV renders it

• command
• declare
• say
• speak
• tell

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.