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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. Ezekiel 37:18יֹאמְר֣וּ · ask; לֵאמֹ֑ר
    When your people ask you, ‘Won’t you explain to us what you mean by these?’
  2. Ezekiel 37:19אָמַר֮ · says
    …you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will put them together with the stick of Judah. I will make them into a single stick, and they will become one in My hand.’
  3. Ezekiel 37:21אָמַר֮ · says
    …you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the Israelites out of the nations to which they have gone, and I will gather them from all around and bring them into their own land.
  4. Ezekiel 38:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  5. Ezekiel 38:3וְאָ֣מַרְתָּ֔ · and declare; אָמַ֖ר · says
    …and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.
  6. Ezekiel 38:10אָמַ֖ר · says
    This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
  7. Ezekiel 38:11וְאָמַרְתָּ֗ · You will say
    You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will come against a quiet people who dwell securely, all of them living without walls or bars or gates—
  8. Ezekiel 38:13יֹאמְר֣וּ · will ask
    Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will ask, ‘Have you come to capture the plunder? Have you assembled your hordes to carry away loot, to make off with silver and gold, to take cattle and goods, to seize great spoil?’
  9. Ezekiel 38:14וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · and tell; אָמַ֖ר · says
    Therefore prophesy, son of man, and tell Gog that this is what the Lord GOD says: On that day when My people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not take notice of this?
  10. Ezekiel 38:17אָמַ֞ר · says
    This is what the Lord GOD says: Are you the one of whom I have spoken in former days through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those times prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?
  11. Ezekiel 39:1וְאָ֣מַרְתָּ֔ · and declare; אָמַ֖ר · says
    “As for you, O son of man, prophesy against Gog and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.
  12. Ezekiel 39:17אָמַ֣ר׀ · says; אֱמֹר֩ · Call out to
    And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.
  13. Ezekiel 39:25אָמַר֙ · says
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Now I will restore Jacob from captivity and will have compassion on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name.
  14. Ezekiel 41:4וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · And he said
    Then he measured the room adjacent to the inner sanctuary to be twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
  15. Ezekiel 42:13וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · Then the man said
    Then the man said to me, “The north and south chambers facing the temple courtyard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy.
  16. Ezekiel 43:7וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and He said
    …and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile My holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and by the funeral offerings for their kings at their deaths.
  17. Ezekiel 43:18וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · Then He said; אָמַר֙ · says
    Then He said to me: “Son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is constructed, so that burnt offerings may be sacrificed on it and blood may be splattered on it:
  18. Ezekiel 44:2וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    And the LORD said to me, “This gate is to remain shut. It shall not be opened, and no man shall enter through it, because the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered through it. Therefore it will remain shut.
  19. Ezekiel 44:5וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    The LORD said to me: “Son of man, pay attention; look carefully with your eyes and listen closely with your ears to everything I tell you concerning all the statutes and laws of the house of the LORD. Take careful note of the entrance to the temple, along with all the exits of the sanctuary.
  20. Ezekiel 44:6וְאָמַרְתָּ֤ · Tell; אָמַ֖ר · says
    Tell the rebellious house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I have had enough of all your abominations, O house of Israel.
  21. Ezekiel 44:9אָמַר֮ · says
    This is what the Lord GOD says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh may enter My sanctuary—not even a foreigner who lives among the Israelites.
  22. Ezekiel 45:9אָמַ֞ר · says
    For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’
  23. Ezekiel 45:18אָמַר֮ · says
    This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the first day of the first month you are to take a young bull without blemish and purify the sanctuary.
  24. Ezekiel 46:1אָמַר֮ · says
    “This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The gate of the inner court that faces east must be kept shut during the six days of work, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened.
  25. Ezekiel 46:16אָמַ֞ר · says
    This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons as an inheritance, it will belong to his descendants. It will become their property by inheritance.
  26. Ezekiel 46:20וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and said
    …and said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them into the outer court and transmit holiness to the people.”
  27. Ezekiel 46:24וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · And he said
    And he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple will cook the sacrifices offered by the people.”
  28. Ezekiel 47:6וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · he asked
    “Son of man, do you see this?” he asked. Then he led me back to the bank of the river.
  29. Ezekiel 47:8וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · And he said
    And he said to me, “This water flows out to the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah. When it empties into the Dead Sea, the water there becomes fresh.
  30. Ezekiel 47:13אָמַר֙ · says
    This is what the Lord GOD says: “These are the boundaries by which you are to divide the land as an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall receive two portions.
  31. Daniel 1:3וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · ordered
    Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, the chief of his court officials, to bring in some Israelites from the royal family and the nobility—
  32. Daniel 1:10וַיֹּ֜אמֶר · said
    …but he said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking thinner than those of the other young men your age? You would endanger my head before the king!”
  33. Daniel 1:11וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · said
    Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
  34. Daniel 1:18אָמַ֥ר · specified
    Now at the end of the time specified by the king, the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar.
  35. Daniel 2:2וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · gave orders
    So the king gave orders to summon the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers, and astrologers to explain his dreams. When they came and stood before the king,
  36. Daniel 2:3וַיֹּ֧אמֶר · said to them
    …he said to them, “I have had a dream, and my spirit is anxious to understand it.”
  37. Daniel 8:13וַיֹּאמֶר֩ · one said
    Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long until the fulfillment of the vision of the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, and the surrender of the sanctuary and of the host to be trampled?”
  38. Daniel 8:14וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · He said
    He said to me, “It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be properly restored.”
  39. Daniel 8:16וַיֹּאמַ֔ר
    And I heard the voice of a man calling from between the banks of the Ulai: “Gabriel, explain the vision to this man.”
  40. Daniel 8:17וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · he said
    As he came near to where I stood, I was terrified and fell facedown. “Son of man,” he said to me, “understand that the vision concerns the time of the end.”
  41. Daniel 8:19וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · and said
    …and said, “Behold, I will make known to you what will happen in the latter time of wrath, because it concerns the appointed time of the end.
  42. Daniel 8:26נֶאֱמַ֖ר · has been spoken
    The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been spoken is true. Now you must seal up the vision, for it concerns the distant future.”
  43. Daniel 9:4וָאֹֽמְרָ֗ה
    And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,