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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. Exodus 4:3וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · said [the LORD]
    “Throw it on the ground,” said the LORD. So Moses threw it on the ground, and it became a snake, and he ran from it.
  2. Exodus 4:4וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    “Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail,” the LORD said to Moses, who reached out his hand and caught the snake, and it turned back into a staff in his hand.
  3. Exodus 4:6וַיֹּאמֶר֩ · said
    Furthermore, the LORD said to Moses, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was leprous, white as snow.
  4. Exodus 4:7וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · said [the LORD]
    “Put your hand back inside your cloak,” said the LORD. So Moses put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his skin.
  5. Exodus 4:10וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · replied
    “Please, Lord,” Moses replied, “I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and tongue.”
  6. Exodus 4:11וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
  7. Exodus 4:13וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · But Moses replied
    But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”
  8. Exodus 4:14וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · and He said
    Then the anger of the LORD burned against Moses, and He said, “Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well, and he is now on his way to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
  9. Exodus 4:18וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · and said; וַיֹּ֧אמֶר · [Jethro] replied
    Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” “Go in peace,” Jethro replied.
  10. Exodus 4:19וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · had said
    Now the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who sought to kill you are dead.”
  11. Exodus 4:21וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · instructed
    The LORD instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
  12. Exodus 4:22וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ · Then tell; אָמַ֣ר · says
    Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,
  13. Exodus 4:23וָאֹמַ֣ר · and I told you
    …and I told you to let My son go so that he may worship Me. But since you have refused to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son!’”
  14. Exodus 4:25וַתֹּ֕אמֶר · she said
    But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.
  15. Exodus 4:26אָֽמְרָ֔ה · she said
    So the LORD let him alone. (When she said, “bridegroom of blood,” she was referring to the circumcision.)
  16. Exodus 4:27וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · had said
    Meanwhile, the LORD had said to Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.
  17. Exodus 5:1וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ · and said; אָמַ֤ר · says
    After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”
  18. Exodus 5:2וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · replied
    But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”
  19. Exodus 5:3וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ · they answered
    “The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”
  20. Exodus 5:4וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away from their work? Get back to your labor!”
  21. Exodus 5:5וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · also said
    Pharaoh also said, “Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you would be stopping them from their labor.”
  22. Exodus 5:6לֵאמֹֽר׃
    That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen:
  23. Exodus 5:8לֵאמֹ֔ר
    But require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
  24. Exodus 5:10וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ · and said; לֵאמֹ֑ר · says; אָמַ֣ר
    So the taskmasters and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I am no longer giving you straw.
  25. Exodus 5:13לֵאמֹ֑ר · saying
    The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
  26. Exodus 5:14לֵאמֹ֑ר · and asked
    Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over the people, were beaten and asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before?”
  27. Exodus 5:15לֵאמֹ֑ר
    So the Israelite foremen went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way?
  28. Exodus 5:16אֹמְרִ֥ים · yet we are told
    No straw has been given to your servants, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”
  29. Exodus 5:17וַיֹּ֛אמֶר · Pharaoh replied; אֹֽמְרִ֔ים · keep saying
    “You are slackers!” Pharaoh replied. “Slackers! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’
  30. Exodus 5:19לֵאמֹ֑ר · when they were told
    The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your daily quota of bricks.”
  31. Exodus 5:21וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ · [the foremen] said
    “May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill us!”
  32. Exodus 5:22וַיֹּאמַ֑ר · and asked
    So Moses returned to the LORD and asked, “Lord, why have You brought trouble upon this people? Is this why You sent me?
  33. Exodus 6:1וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    But the LORD said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for because of My mighty hand he will let the people go; because of My strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”
  34. Exodus 6:2וַיֹּ֥אמֶר
    God also told Moses, “I am the LORD.
  35. Exodus 6:6אֱמֹ֥ר · tell
    Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
  36. Exodus 6:10לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    So the LORD said to Moses,
  37. Exodus 6:12לֵאמֹ֑ר
    But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”
  38. Exodus 6:26אָמַ֤ר · said
    It was this Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, “Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.”
  39. Exodus 6:29לֵּאמֹ֖ר
    He said to him, “I am the LORD; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I say to you.”
  40. Exodus 6:30וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · replied
    But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “Since I am unskilled in speech, why would Pharaoh listen to me?”
  41. Exodus 7:1וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · answered
    The LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
  42. Exodus 7:8וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said; לֵאמֹֽר׃
    The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
  43. Exodus 7:9לֵאמֹ֔ר
    “When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ you are to say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a serpent.”