Genesis 1:3
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
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And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Read in context →And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
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ʼâmar · aw-mar'
to say (used with great latitude)
Strong's KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, × desire, determine, × expressly, × indeed, × intend, name, × plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), × still, × suppose, talk, tell, term, × that is, × think, use (speech), utter, × verily, × yet.
Strong's first: Genesis 1:3Strong's last: Malachi 3:14
Open full H559 profile →épō · ep'-o
to speak or say (by word or writing)
Strong's KJV usage: :--answer, bid, bring word, call, command, grant, say (on), speak, tell.
Strong's first: Matthew 2:5Strong's last: Revelation 22:6
Open full G2036 profile →légō · leg'-o
properly, to "lay" forth, i.e. (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas G2036 and G5346 generally refer to an individual expression or speech respectively; while G4483 is properly to break silence merely, and G2980 means an extended or random harangue)); by implication, to mean
Strong's KJV usage: :--ask, bid, boast, call, describe, give out, name, put forth, say(-ing, on), shew, speak, tell, utter.
Strong's first: Matthew 9:21Strong's last: Revelation 21:5
Open full G3004 profile →dâbar · daw-bar'
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
Strong's KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, × well, × work.
Strong's first: Genesis 17:23Strong's last: Jonah 3:10
Open full H1696 profile →phēmí · fay-mee'
to show or make known one's thoughts, i.e. speak or say
Strong's KJV usage: :--affirm, say.
Strong's first: Matthew 4:7Strong's last: Acts 26:32
Open full G5346 profile →ʼămar · am-ar'
Strong's KJV usage: command, declare, say, speak, tell.
Strong's first: Ezra 5:3Strong's last: Daniel 7:23
Open full H560 profile →eréō · er-eh'-o
an alternate for G2036 in certain tenses; to utter, i.e. speak or say
Strong's KJV usage: :--call, say, speak (of), tell.
Strong's first: Matthew 26:75Strong's last: Revelation 19:3
Open full G2046 profile →rhéō · hreh'-o
to utter, i.e. speak or say
Strong's KJV usage: :--command, make, say, speak (of).
Strong's first: Matthew 5:21Strong's last: Revelation 6:11
Open full G4483 profile →dâbâr · daw-baw'
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Strong's KJV usage: act, advice, affair, answer, × any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, chronicles, commandment, × commune(-ication), concern(-ing), confer, counsel, dearth, decree, deed, × disease, due, duty, effect, eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-) ness, glory, harm, hurt, iniquity, judgment, language, lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, × ought, × parts, pertaining, please, portion, power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, × (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, sign, so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, song, speech, × spoken, talk, task, that, × there done, thing (concerning), thought, thus, tidings, what(-soever), wherewith, which, word, work.
Strong's first: Genesis 47:30Strong's last: Esther 5:8
Open full H1697 profile →nᵉʼum · neh-oom'
an oracle
Strong's KJV usage: (hath) said, saith.
Strong's first: Numbers 24:3Strong's last: Psalms 110:1
Open full H5002 profile →laléō · lal-eh'-o
to talk, i.e. utter words
Strong's KJV usage: :--preach, say, speak (after), talk, tell, utter.
Strong's first: John 8:25Strong's last: Hebrews 11:18
Open full G2980 profile →apophthéngomai · ap-of-theng'-om-ahee
to enunciate plainly, i.e. declare
Strong's KJV usage: :--say, speak forth, utterance.
Strong's first: Acts 2:14Strong's last: Acts 2:14
Open full G669 profile →autós · ow-tos'
the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the compound G1438) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
Strong's KJV usage: :--her, it(-self), one, the other, (mine) own, said, (self-), the) same, ((him-, my-, thy- )self, (your-)selves, she, that, their(-s), them(-selves), there(-at, - by, -in, -into, -of, -on, -with), they, (these) things, this (man), those, together, very, which.
Strong's first: Mark 6:22Strong's last: Mark 6:22
Open full G846 profile →dé · deh
but, and, etc.
Strong's KJV usage: :--also, and, but, moreover, now (often unexpressed in English).
Strong's first: Luke 12:13Strong's last: Luke 12:13
Open full G1161 profile →hóti · hot'-ee
demonstrative, that (sometimes redundant); causative, because
Strong's KJV usage: :--as concerning that, as though, because (that), for (that), how (that), (in) that, though, why.
Strong's first: Mark 9:26Strong's last: Mark 9:26
Open full G3754 profile →Paûlos · pow'-los
(little; but remotely from a derivative of G3973, meaning the same); Paulus, the name of a Roman and of an apostle
Strong's KJV usage: :--Paul, Paulus.
Strong's first: Acts 21:4Strong's last: Acts 21:4
Open full G3972 profile →mâlal · maw-lal'
to speak (mostly poetical) or say
Strong's KJV usage: say, speak, utter.
Strong's first: Genesis 21:7Strong's last: Genesis 21:7
Open full H4448 profile →mᵉlal · mel-al'
to speak
Strong's KJV usage: say, speak(-ing).
Strong's first: Daniel 6:21Strong's last: Daniel 6:21
Open full H4449 profile →ʻânâh · aw-naw'
properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce
Strong's KJV usage: give account, afflict (by mistake for 6031), (cause to, give) answer, bring low (by mistake for 6031), cry, hear, Leannoth, lift up, say, × scholar, (give a) shout, sing (together by course), speak, testify, utter, (bear) witness. See also 1042, 1043.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 9:17Strong's last: 1 Samuel 9:17
Open full H6030 profile →qârâʼ · kaw-raw'
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
Strong's KJV usage: bewray (self), that are bidden, call (for, forth, self, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous, guest, invite, mention, (give) name, preach, (make) proclaim(-ation), pronounce, publish, read, renowned, say.
Strong's first: Job 17:14Strong's last: Job 17:14
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Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?
And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.
And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.
And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house.
Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.
And David's men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?
Then David inquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thine hand.
And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.
And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.
Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver thee up.
Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver thee up.
And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.
And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on me.
And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.
And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.
And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD's anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD.
And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD's anointed.
And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.
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SAID, preterit tense and participle passive of say; so written for sayed.
1. Declared; uttered; reported.
2. Aforesaid; before mentioned.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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