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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 16:32וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”
  2. Exodus 16:33וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · told
    So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.”
  3. Exodus 17:2וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ; וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · replied
    So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”
  4. Exodus 17:3וַיֹּ֗אמֶר
    But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
  5. Exodus 17:4לֵאמֹ֔ר
    Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!”
  6. Exodus 17:5וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    And the LORD said to Moses, “Walk on ahead of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with you. Take along in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
  7. Exodus 17:7לֵאמֹ֔ר · saying
    He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
  8. Exodus 17:9וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with the staff of God in my hand.”
  9. Exodus 17:10אָֽמַר־ · had instructed
    Joshua did as Moses had instructed him and fought against the Amalekites, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
  10. Exodus 17:14וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
  11. Exodus 17:16וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · he said
    “Indeed,” he said, “a hand was lifted up toward the throne of the LORD. The LORD will war against Amalek from generation to generation.”
  12. Exodus 18:3אָמַ֔ר · Moses had said
    …along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”
  13. Exodus 18:6וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · He sent word
    He sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.”
  14. Exodus 18:10וַיֹּאמֶר֮ · declared
    Jethro declared, “Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from the hand of the Egyptians.
  15. Exodus 18:14וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · he asked
    When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he asked, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone as judge, with all the people standing around you from morning till evening?”
  16. Exodus 18:15וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · replied
    “Because the people come to me to inquire of God,” Moses replied.
  17. Exodus 18:17וַיֹּ֛אמֶר · said
    But Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.
  18. Exodus 18:24אָמָֽר׃ · he said
    Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.
  19. Exodus 19:3לֵאמֹ֔ר · you are to tell; תֹאמַר֙
    Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain, “This is what you are to tell the house of Jacob and explain to the sons of Israel:
  20. Exodus 19:8וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ
    And all the people answered together, “We will do everything that the LORD has spoken.” So Moses brought their words back to the LORD.
  21. Exodus 19:9וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear when I speak with you, and they will always put their trust in you.” And Moses relayed to the LORD what the people had said.
  22. Exodus 19:10וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes
  23. Exodus 19:12לֵאמֹ֔ר · and tell them
    And you are to set up a boundary for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful not to go up on the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.
  24. Exodus 19:15וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · he said
    “Be prepared for the third day,” he said to the people. “Do not draw near to a woman.”
  25. Exodus 19:21וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    …and the LORD said to him, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to see the LORD, lest many of them perish.
  26. Exodus 19:23וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said; לֵאמֹ֔ר
    But Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, for You solemnly warned us, ‘Put a boundary around the mountain and set it apart as holy.’”
  27. Exodus 19:24וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · replied
    And the LORD replied, “Go down and bring Aaron with you. But the priests and the people must not break through to come up to the LORD, or He will break out against them.”
  28. Exodus 19:25וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · and spoke
    So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.
  29. Exodus 20:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ס
    And God spoke all these words:
  30. Exodus 20:19וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ · they said
    “Speak to us yourself and we will listen,” they said to Moses. “But do not let God speak to us, or we will die.”
  31. Exodus 20:20וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · replied
    “Do not be afraid,” Moses replied. “For God has come to test you, so that the fear of Him may be before you, to keep you from sinning.”
  32. Exodus 20:22וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said; תֹאמַ֖ר · you are to tell
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “This is what you are to tell the Israelites: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven.
  33. Exodus 21:5אָמֹ֤ר · declares; יֹאמַר֙
    But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’
  34. Exodus 22:9יֹאמַר֙ · someone claims
    In all cases of illegal possession of an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any lost item that someone claims, ‘This is mine,’ both parties shall bring their cases before the judges. The one whom the judges find guilty must pay back double to his neighbor.
  35. Exodus 23:13אָמַ֥רְתִּי · I have said
    Pay close attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.
  36. Exodus 24:1אָמַ֜ר · Then [the LORD] said
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you are to worship at a distance.
  37. Exodus 24:3וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ
    When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.”
  38. Exodus 24:7וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ · who replied
    Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”
  39. Exodus 24:8וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · and said
    So Moses took the blood, splattered it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
  40. Exodus 24:12וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
  41. Exodus 24:14אָמַר֙ · he said
    And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are here with you. Whoever has a dispute can go to them.”
  42. Exodus 25:1לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  43. Exodus 30:11לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  44. Exodus 30:17לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    And the LORD said to Moses,
  45. Exodus 30:22לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,