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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. Numbers 23:1וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”
  2. Numbers 23:3וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    “Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone,” Balaam said to Balak. “Perhaps the LORD will meet with me. And whatever He reveals to me, I will tell you.” So Balaam went off to a barren height,
  3. Numbers 23:4וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · Balaam said
    …and God met with him. “I have set up seven altars,” Balaam said, “and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.”
  4. Numbers 23:5וַיֹּ֛אמֶר · saying
    Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and give him this message.”
  5. Numbers 23:7וַיֹּאמַ֑ר · saying
    And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’
  6. Numbers 23:11וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you here to curse my enemies, and behold, you have only blessed them!”
  7. Numbers 23:12וַיֹּאמַ֑ר
    But Balaam replied, “Should I not speak exactly what the LORD puts in my mouth?”
  8. Numbers 23:13וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will only see the outskirts of their camp—not all of them. And from there, curse them for me.”
  9. Numbers 23:15וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · Balaam said
    Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your burnt offering while I meet the LORD over there.”
  10. Numbers 23:16וַיֹּ֛אמֶר · saying
    And the LORD met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and speak what I tell you.”
  11. Numbers 23:17וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · asked
    So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with the princes of Moab. “What did the LORD say?” Balak asked.
  12. Numbers 23:18וַיֹּאמַ֑ר · saying
    Then Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Arise, O Balak, and listen; give ear to me, O son of Zippor.
  13. Numbers 23:19אָמַר֙ · speak
    God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
  14. Numbers 23:23יֵאָמֵ֤ר · be said
    For there is no spell against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done!’
  15. Numbers 23:25וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    Now Balak said to Balaam, “Then neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!”
  16. Numbers 23:26וַיֹּ֖אמֶר; לֵאמֹ֔ר
    But Balaam replied, “Did I not tell you that whatever the LORD says, I must do?”
  17. Numbers 23:27וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    “Please come,” said Balak, “I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you curse them for me from there.”
  18. Numbers 23:29וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    Then Balaam said, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”
  19. Numbers 23:30אָמַ֣ר · had instructed
    So Balak did as Balaam had instructed, and he offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
  20. Numbers 24:3וַיֹּאמַ֑ר · saying
    …and he lifted up an oracle, saying: “This is the prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of a man whose eyes are open,
  21. Numbers 24:10וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · and said
    Then Balak’s anger burned against Balaam, and he struck his hands together and said to Balaam, “I summoned you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have persisted in blessing them these three times.
  22. Numbers 24:11אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ · I said
    Therefore, flee at once to your home! I said I would reward you richly, but instead the LORD has denied your reward.”
  23. Numbers 24:12וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · answered; לֵאמֹֽר׃
    Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not already tell the messengers you sent me
  24. Numbers 24:15וַיֹּאמַ֑ר · saying
    Then Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying, “This is the prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of a man whose eyes are open,
  25. Numbers 24:20וַיֹּאמַ֑ר · saying
    Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”
  26. Numbers 24:21וַיֹּאמַ֑ר · saying
    Next he saw the Kenites and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Your dwelling place is secure, and your nest is set in a cliff.
  27. Numbers 24:23וַיֹּאמַ֑ר · saying
    Once more Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Ah, who can live unless God has ordained it?
  28. Numbers 25:4וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”
  29. Numbers 25:5וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · told
    So Moses told the judges of Israel, “Each of you must kill all of his men who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.”
  30. Numbers 25:10לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  31. Numbers 25:12אֱמֹ֑ר · Declare
    Declare, therefore, that I am granting him My covenant of peace.
  32. Numbers 25:16לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    And the LORD said to Moses,
  33. Numbers 26:1וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said; לֵאמֹֽר׃
    After the plague had ended, the LORD said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,
  34. Numbers 26:3לֵאמֹֽר׃ · the instruction
    So on the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest issued the instruction,
  35. Numbers 26:52לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  36. Numbers 26:65אָמַ֤ר · had told
    For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
  37. Numbers 27:2לֵאמֹֽר׃ · and said
    …the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and the whole congregation, and said,
  38. Numbers 27:6וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · answered; לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    …and the LORD answered him,
  39. Numbers 27:8לֵאמֹ֑ר
    Furthermore, you shall say to the Israelites, ‘If a man dies and leaves no son, you are to transfer his inheritance to his daughter.
  40. Numbers 27:12וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites.
  41. Numbers 27:15לֵאמֹֽר׃
    So Moses appealed to the LORD,
  42. Numbers 27:18וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · replied
    And the LORD replied to Moses, “Take Joshua son of Nun, a man with the Spirit in him, and lay your hands on him.
  43. Numbers 28:1לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  44. Numbers 28:2וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ · and say
    “Command the Israelites and say to them: See that you present to Me at its appointed time the food for My food offerings, as a pleasing aroma to Me.
  45. Numbers 28:3וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · And tell them
    And tell them that this is the food offering you are to present to the LORD as a regular burnt offering each day: two unblemished year-old male lambs.
  46. Numbers 29:40וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · spoke
    So Moses spoke all this to the Israelites just as the LORD had commanded him.