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אָמַר

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hebrewOld TestamentVerb5,308 occurrences39 books4,337 verses

Definition

a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude)
Traditional renderings: 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.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders אָמַר:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

5,308 total
  1. Genesis 39:14לֵאמֹ֔ר
    …she called her household servants. “Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.
  2. Genesis 39:17לֵאמֹ֑ר
    Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,
  3. Genesis 39:19לֵאמֹ֔ר · saying
    When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is what your slave did to me,” he burned with anger.
  4. Genesis 40:7לֵאמֹ֑ר
    So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so downcast today?”
  5. Genesis 40:8וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ · they replied; וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    “We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”
  6. Genesis 40:9וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
    So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream: “In my dream there was a vine before me,
  7. Genesis 40:12וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · replied
    Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days.
  8. Genesis 40:16וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · he said
    When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head.
  9. Genesis 40:18וַיֹּ֔אמֶר
    Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days.
  10. Genesis 41:9לֵאמֹ֑ר
    Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.
  11. Genesis 41:15וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said; לֵאמֹ֔ר · it said
    Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
  12. Genesis 41:16לֵאמֹ֖ר
    “I myself cannot do it,” Joseph replied, “but God will give Pharaoh a sound answer.”
  13. Genesis 41:24וָֽאֹמַר֙ · I told
    And the thin heads of grain swallowed the seven plump ones. I told this dream to the magicians, but no one could explain it to me.”
  14. Genesis 41:25וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    At this, Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what He is about to do.
  15. Genesis 41:38וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · asked
    So Pharaoh asked them, “Can we find anyone like this man, in whom the Spirit of God abides?”
  16. Genesis 41:39וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.
  17. Genesis 41:41וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · also told
    Pharaoh also told Joseph, “I hereby place you over all the land of Egypt.”
  18. Genesis 41:44וַיֹּ֧אמֶר · declared
    And Pharaoh declared to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your permission, no one in all the land of Egypt shall lift his hand or foot.”
  19. Genesis 41:54אָמַ֣ר · had said
    …the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt.
  20. Genesis 41:55וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · told; יֹאמַ֥ר · he tells
    When extreme hunger came to all the land of Egypt and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”
  21. Genesis 42:1וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”
  22. Genesis 42:2וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · he added
    “Look,” he added, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”
  23. Genesis 42:4אָמַ֔ר · he said
    But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him.”
  24. Genesis 42:7וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · he asked; וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ · they replied
    And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”
  25. Genesis 42:9וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · and said
    Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
  26. Genesis 42:10וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ · they replied
    “Not so, my lord,” they replied. “Your servants have come to buy food.
  27. Genesis 42:12וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · he told
    “No,” he told them. “You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
  28. Genesis 42:13וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ · But they answered
    But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”
  29. Genesis 42:14וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · declared; לֵאמֹ֖ר
    Then Joseph declared, “Just as I said, you are spies!
  30. Genesis 42:18וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    …and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:
  31. Genesis 42:21וַיֹּאמְר֞וּ · Then they said
    Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”
  32. Genesis 42:22לֵאמֹ֗ר · I tell; אָמַ֨רְתִּי; לֵאמֹ֛ר
    And Reuben responded, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would not listen. Now we must account for his blood!”
  33. Genesis 42:28וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · he said; לֵאמֹ֔ר · and said
    “My silver has been returned!” he said to his brothers. “It is here in my sack.” Their hearts sank, and trembling, they turned to one another and said, “What is this that God has done to us?”
  34. Genesis 42:29לֵאמֹֽר׃
    When they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they described to him all that had happened to them:
  35. Genesis 42:31וַנֹּ֥אמֶר · But we told
    But we told him, ‘We are honest men, not spies.
  36. Genesis 42:33וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    Then the man who is lord of the land said to us, ‘This is how I will know whether you are honest: Leave one brother with me, take food to relieve the hunger of your households, and go.
  37. Genesis 42:36וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”
  38. Genesis 42:37וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said; לֵאמֹ֔ר
    Then Reuben said to his father, “You may kill my two sons if I fail to bring him back to you. Put him in my care, and I will return him.”
  39. Genesis 42:38וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · But Jacob replied
    But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”
  40. Genesis 43:2וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    So when Jacob’s sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”
  41. Genesis 43:3וַיֹּ֧אמֶר · replied
    But Judah replied, “The man solemnly warned us, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.’