Definition

something said

Etymology

from H559 (אָמַר);

Word family

• אָמַר ʼâmar

How the KJV renders it

• answer
• appointed unto him
• saying
• speech
• word

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.