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אָמַר

a.marto sayHow to read Hebrew
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 10:29וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · replied
    “As you say,” Moses replied, “I will never see your face again.”
  2. Exodus 11:1וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will bring upon Pharaoh and Egypt one more plague. After that, he will allow you to leave this place. And when he lets you go, he will drive you out completely.
  3. Exodus 11:4וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · declared; אָמַ֣ר · says
    So Moses declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,
  4. Exodus 11:8לֵאמֹ֗ר · saying
    And all these officials of yours will come and bow before me, saying, ‘Go, you and all the people who follow you!’ After that, I will depart.” And hot with anger, Moses left Pharaoh’s presence.
  5. Exodus 11:9וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    The LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”
  6. Exodus 12:1וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said; לֵאמֹֽר׃
    Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
  7. Exodus 12:3לֵאמֹ֔ר
    Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household.
  8. Exodus 12:21וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and told
    Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, “Go at once and select for yourselves a lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb.
  9. Exodus 12:26יֹאמְר֥וּ · ask you
    When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’
  10. Exodus 12:27וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֡ם · you are to reply
    …you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
  11. Exodus 12:31וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · and said
    Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested.
  12. Exodus 12:33אָמְר֖וּ · they said
    And in order to send them out of the land quickly, the Egyptians urged the people on. “For otherwise,” they said, “we are all going to die!”
  13. Exodus 12:43וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.
  14. Exodus 13:1לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  15. Exodus 13:3וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · told
    So Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.
  16. Exodus 13:8לֵאמֹ֑ר
    And on that day you are to explain to your son, ‘This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
  17. Exodus 13:14לֵאמֹ֣ר · mean; וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · you are to tell
    In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
  18. Exodus 13:17אָמַ֣ר · said
    When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them along the road through the land of the Philistines, though it was shorter. For God said, “If the people face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.”
  19. Exodus 13:19לֵאמֹ֔ר · when he said
    Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear a solemn oath when he said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones with you from this place.”
  20. Exodus 14:1לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  21. Exodus 14:3וְאָמַ֤ר · will say
    For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.’
  22. Exodus 14:5וַיֹּֽאמרוּ֙ · and said
    When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”
  23. Exodus 14:11וַיֹּאמְרוּ֮ · They said
    They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
  24. Exodus 14:12לֵאמֹ֔ר
    Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
  25. Exodus 14:13וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · told
    But Moses told the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the LORD’s salvation, which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again.
  26. Exodus 14:15וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the Israelites to go forward.
  27. Exodus 14:25וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    He caused their chariot wheels to wobble, so that they had difficulty driving. “Let us flee from the Israelites,” said the Egyptians, “for the LORD is fighting for them against Egypt!”
  28. Exodus 14:26וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.”
  29. Exodus 15:1וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ; לֵאמֹ֑ר
    Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.
  30. Exodus 15:9אָמַ֥ר · declared
    The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’
  31. Exodus 15:24לֵּאמֹ֖ר · saying
    So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”
  32. Exodus 15:26וַיֹּאמֶר֩ · saying
    …saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
  33. Exodus 16:3וַיֹּאמְר֨וּ
    “If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”
  34. Exodus 16:4וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.
  35. Exodus 16:6וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “This evening you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
  36. Exodus 16:8וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · added
    And Moses added, “The LORD will give you meat to eat this evening and bread to fill you in the morning, for He has heard your grumbling against Him. Who are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against the LORD.”
  37. Exodus 16:9וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said to; אֱמֹ֗ר · Tell
    Then Moses said to Aaron, “Tell the whole congregation of Israel, ‘Come before the LORD, for He has heard your grumbling.’”
  38. Exodus 16:11לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  39. Exodus 16:12לֵאמֹ֗ר
    “I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’”
  40. Exodus 16:15וַיֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ · they asked; וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · told
    When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
  41. Exodus 16:19וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · said
    Then Moses said to them, “No one may keep any of it until morning.”
  42. Exodus 16:23וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · He told them
    He told them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and keep it until morning.’”
  43. Exodus 16:25וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    “Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a Sabbath to the LORD. Today you will not find anything in the field.
  44. Exodus 16:28וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · said
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?