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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. Leviticus 17:14וָֽאֹמַר֙ · Therefore I have told
    For the life of all flesh is its blood. Therefore I have told the Israelites, ‘You must not eat the blood of any living thing, because the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it must be cut off.’
  2. Leviticus 18:1לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  3. Leviticus 18:2וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ · [and] tell
    “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am the LORD your God.
  4. Leviticus 19:1לֵּאמֹֽר
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  5. Leviticus 19:2וְאָמַרְתָּ֥ · and tell
    “Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
  6. Leviticus 20:1לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  7. Leviticus 20:2תֹּאמַר֒ · Tell
    “Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him.
  8. Leviticus 20:24וָאֹמַ֣ר · But I have told
    But I have told you that you will inherit their land, since I will give it to you as an inheritance—a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the peoples.
  9. Leviticus 21:1וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said; אֱמֹ֥ר · Speak; וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · and tell
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people,
  10. Leviticus 21:16לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  11. Leviticus 21:17לֵאמֹ֑ר
    “Say to Aaron, ‘For the generations to come, none of your descendants who has a physical defect may approach to offer the food of his God.
  12. Leviticus 22:1לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  13. Leviticus 22:3אֱמֹ֣ר · Tell
    Tell them that for the generations to come, if any of their descendants in a state of uncleanness approaches the sacred offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the LORD, that person must be cut off from My presence. I am the LORD.
  14. Leviticus 22:17לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  15. Leviticus 22:18וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ · and tell
    “Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the Israelites and tell them, ‘Any man of the house of Israel or any foreign resident who presents a gift for a burnt offering to the LORD, whether to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering,
  16. Leviticus 22:26לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  17. Leviticus 23:1לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  18. Leviticus 23:2וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · and say
    “Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘These are My appointed feasts, the feasts of the LORD that you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.
  19. Leviticus 23:9לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    And the LORD said to Moses,
  20. Leviticus 23:10וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · and say
    “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.
  21. Leviticus 23:23לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    The LORD also said to Moses,
  22. Leviticus 23:24לֵאמֹ֑ר · [and] say
    “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly announced by trumpet blasts.
  23. Leviticus 23:26לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Again the LORD said to Moses,
  24. Leviticus 23:33לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    And the LORD said to Moses,
  25. Leviticus 23:34לֵאמֹ֑ר · [and] say
    “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Feast of Tabernacles to the LORD begins, and it continues for seven days.
  26. Leviticus 24:1לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  27. Leviticus 24:13לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  28. Leviticus 24:15לֵאמֹ֑ר
    And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin.
  29. Leviticus 25:1לֵאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
  30. Leviticus 25:2וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · and say to them
    “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD.
  31. Leviticus 25:20תֹאמְר֔וּ · you may wonder
    Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’
  32. Leviticus 27:1לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  33. Leviticus 27:2וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · and say
    “Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the value of persons,
  34. Numbers 1:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · He said
    On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai. He said:
  35. Numbers 1:48לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    For the LORD had said to Moses:
  36. Numbers 2:1לֵאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
  37. Numbers 3:5לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  38. Numbers 3:11לֵּאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  39. Numbers 3:14לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying,
  40. Numbers 3:40וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Number every firstborn male of the Israelites a month old or more, and list their names.
  41. Numbers 3:44לֵּאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  42. Numbers 4:1לֵאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
  43. Numbers 4:17לֵאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
  44. Numbers 4:21לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    And the LORD said to Moses,
  45. Numbers 5:1לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  46. Numbers 5:5לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    And the LORD said to Moses,
  47. Numbers 5:11לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  48. Numbers 5:12וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ · and tell them that
    “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him