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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. Jonah 2:2וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · saying
    …saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.
  2. Jonah 2:4אָמַ֔רְתִּי · said
    At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’
  3. Jonah 2:10וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · commanded
    And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
  4. Jonah 3:1לֵאמֹֽר׃
    Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:
  5. Jonah 3:4וַיֹּאמַ֔ר
    On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”
  6. Jonah 3:7וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙; לֵאמֹ֑ר
    Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink.
  7. Jonah 4:2וַיֹּאמַ֗ר · saying
    So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.
  8. Jonah 4:4וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · replied
    But the LORD replied, “Have you any right to be angry?”
  9. Jonah 4:8וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · saying
    As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
  10. Jonah 4:9וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · asked; וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · he replied
    Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”
  11. Jonah 4:10וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.
  12. Micah 2:3אָמַ֣ר · says
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.
  13. Micah 2:4אָמַר֙
    In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”
  14. Micah 2:7הֶאָמ֣וּר · Should it be said
    Should it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly?
  15. Micah 3:1וָאֹמַ֗ר · Then I said
    Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?
  16. Micah 3:5אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:
  17. Micah 3:11לֵאמֹ֔ר · saying
    Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”
  18. Micah 4:2וְאָֽמְרוּ֙ · and say
    And many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
  19. Micah 4:11הָאֹמְרִ֣ים · saying
    But now many nations have assembled against you, saying, “Let her be defiled, and let us feast our eyes on Zion.”
  20. Micah 6:1אֹמֵ֑ר · says
    Hear now what the LORD says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.
  21. Micah 7:10הָאֹמְרָ֣ה · she who said
    Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame—she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.
  22. Nahum 1:12אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: “Though they are allied and numerous, yet they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, O Judah, I will afflict you no longer.
  23. Nahum 3:7וְאָמַר֙ · and say
    Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”
  24. Habakkuk 2:2וַיֹּ֔אמֶר
    Then the LORD answered me: “Write down this vision and clearly inscribe it on tablets, so that a herald may run with it.
  25. Habakkuk 2:6וְיֹאמַ֗ר · speaking
    Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’
  26. Habakkuk 2:19אֹמֵ֤ר · to him who says
    Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.”
  27. Zephaniah 1:12הָאֹֽמְרִים֙ · who say
    And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
  28. Zephaniah 2:15הָאֹֽמְרָה֙ · that thinks
    This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
  29. Zephaniah 3:7אָמַ֜רְתִּי · I said
    I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me and accept correction.’ Then her dwelling place would not be cut off despite all for which I punished her. But they rose early to corrupt all their deeds.
  30. Zephaniah 3:16יֵאָמֵ֥ר · they will say
    On that day they will say to Jerusalem: “Do not fear, O Zion; do not let your hands fall limp.
  31. Zephaniah 3:20אָמַ֥ר · says
    At that time I will bring you in; yes, at that time I will gather you. For I will give you fame and praise among all the peoples of the earth when I restore your captives before your very eyes,” says the LORD.
  32. Haggai 1:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · stating
    In the second year of the reign of Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, stating
  33. Haggai 1:2אָמַ֛ר · says; לֵאמֹ֑ר · say; אָֽמְר֔וּ
    …that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.’”
  34. Haggai 1:3לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    Then the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet, saying:
  35. Haggai 1:5אָמַ֖ר · says
    Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
  36. Haggai 1:7אָמַ֖ר · says
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
  37. Haggai 1:8אָמַ֥ר · says
    Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD.
  38. Haggai 1:13וַ֠יֹּאמֶר · delivered; לֵאמֹ֑ר
    Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, delivered the message of the LORD to the people: “I am with you,” declares the LORD.
  39. Haggai 2:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet, saying:
  40. Haggai 2:2אֱמָר־ · Speak; לֵאמֹֽר׃ · Ask them
    “Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and also to the remnant of the people. Ask them,
  41. Haggai 2:6אָמַר֙ · says
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.
  42. Haggai 2:7אָמַ֖ר · says
    I will shake all the nations, and they will come with all their treasures, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of Hosts.
  43. Haggai 2:9אָמַ֖ר · says
    The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former, says the LORD of Hosts. And in this place I will provide peace, declares the LORD of Hosts.”
  44. Haggai 2:10לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Haggai the prophet, saying,