534. amir

Lexicon

amir: Top, branch, summit

Original Word: אָמִיר
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: amiyr
Pronunciation: ah-meer
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-meer')
KJV: bough, branch
NASB: bough, branches
Word Origin: [apparently from H559 (אָמַר - said) (in the sense of self- exaltation)]

1. a summit (of a tree or mountain

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

bough, branch

Apparently from 'amar (in the sense of self- exaltation); a summit (of a tree or mountain -- bough, branch.

see HEBREW 'amar

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from amar
Definition
the top, summit
NASB Translation
bough (1), branches (1), topmost* (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

אָמִיר noun masculine top, summit, of tree Isaiah 17:6; of mountain Isaiah 17:9 (? So Ew Kn De Di; Lag Che Brd Or following ᵐ5 & read הָאֱמֹרִי); plural construct אֲמִרֵי Genesis 49:21 (so read for אִמְרֵי, Ew Di and others, compare also 1. אֵלָה p.18).

Forms and Transliterations

אָמִ֑יר אמיר וְהָ֣אָמִ֔יר והאמיר ’ā·mîr ’āmîr aMir veHaaMir wə·hā·’ā·mîr wəhā’āmîr

Englishman's Concordance

Isaiah 17:6
HEB: גַּרְגְּרִ֖ים בְּרֹ֣אשׁ אָמִ֑יר אַרְבָּעָ֣ה חֲמִשָּׁ֗ה
NAS: on the topmost bough, Four
KJV: in the top of the uppermost bough, four
INT: olives the top bough Four five

Isaiah 17:9
HEB: כַּעֲזוּבַ֤ת הַחֹ֙רֶשׁ֙ וְהָ֣אָמִ֔יר אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָזְב֔וּ
NAS: in the forest, Or like branches which
KJV: bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left
INT: forsaken the forest branches which abandoned

2 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 534
2 Occurrences

’ā·mîr — 1 Occ.
wə·hā·’ā·mîr — 1 Occ.