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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 30:1לֵאמֹ֑ר
    Then Moses said to the heads of the tribes of Israel, “This is what the LORD has commanded:
  2. Numbers 31:1לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    And the LORD said to Moses,
  3. Numbers 31:3לֵאמֹ֔ר
    So Moses told the people, “Arm some of your men for war, that they may go against the Midianites and execute the LORD’s vengeance on them.
  4. Numbers 31:15וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · asked them
    “Have you spared all the women?” he asked them.
  5. Numbers 31:21וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses:
  6. Numbers 31:25וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · said; לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    The LORD said to Moses,
  7. Numbers 31:49וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ · and said
    …and said, “Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one of us is missing.
  8. Numbers 32:2וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ; לֵאמֹֽר׃ · and said
    So the Gadites and Reubenites came to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the congregation, and said,
  9. Numbers 32:5וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ · they said
    “If we have found favor in your sight,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”
  10. Numbers 32:6וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · asked
    But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?
  11. Numbers 32:10לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    So the anger of the LORD was kindled that day, and He swore an oath, saying,
  12. Numbers 32:16וַ֣יֹּאמְר֔וּ · and said
    Then the Gadites and Reubenites approached Moses and said, “We want to build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our little ones.
  13. Numbers 32:20וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · replied
    Moses replied, “If you will do this—if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for battle,
  14. Numbers 32:25וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said; לֵאמֹ֑ר
    The Gadites and Reubenites said to Moses, “Your servants will do just as our lord commands.
  15. Numbers 32:29וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    And Moses said to them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, with every man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you are to give them the land of Gilead as a possession.
  16. Numbers 32:31לֵאמֹ֑ר
    The Gadites and Reubenites replied, “As the LORD has spoken to your servants, so we will do.
  17. Numbers 33:50לֵאמֹֽר׃
    On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, the LORD said to Moses,
  18. Numbers 33:51וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ · and tell
    “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
  19. Numbers 34:1לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  20. Numbers 34:2וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · and say
    “Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:
  21. Numbers 34:13לֵאמֹ֑ר
    So Moses commanded the Israelites, “Apportion this land by lot as an inheritance. The LORD has commanded that it be given to the nine and a half tribes.
  22. Numbers 34:16לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  23. Numbers 35:1לֵאמֹֽר׃
    Again the LORD spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho:
  24. Numbers 35:9לֵּאמֹֽר׃
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  25. Numbers 35:10וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ · and tell them
    “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
  26. Numbers 36:2וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ · saying
    …saying, “When the LORD commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by lot, He also commanded him to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.
  27. Numbers 36:5לֵאמֹ֑ר
    So at the word of the LORD, Moses commanded the Israelites: “The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks correctly.
  28. Numbers 36:6לֵאמֹ֔ר
    This is what the LORD has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: They may marry anyone they please, provided they marry within a clan of the tribe of their father.
  29. Deuteronomy 1:5לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    On the east side of the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying:
  30. Deuteronomy 1:6לֵאמֹ֑ר
    The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: “You have stayed at this mountain long enough.
  31. Deuteronomy 1:9וָאֹמַ֣ר · I said; לֵאמֹ֑ר
    At that time I said to you, “I cannot carry the burden for you alone.
  32. Deuteronomy 1:14וַתֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ · and said
    And you answered me and said, “What you propose to do is good.”
  33. Deuteronomy 1:16לֵאמֹ֑ר
    At that time I charged your judges: “Hear the disputes between your brothers, and judge fairly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.
  34. Deuteronomy 1:20וָאֹמַ֖ר · I said
    I said: “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.
  35. Deuteronomy 1:22וַתֹּאמְר֗וּ · and said
    Then all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us to search out the land and bring us word of what route to follow and which cities to enter.”
  36. Deuteronomy 1:25וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ
    They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
  37. Deuteronomy 1:27וַתֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ · and said
    You grumbled in your tents and said, “Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be annihilated.
  38. Deuteronomy 1:28לֵאמֹ֗ר · saying
    Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”
  39. Deuteronomy 1:29וָאֹמַ֖ר · So I said
    So I said to you: “Do not be terrified or afraid of them!
  40. Deuteronomy 1:34לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,
  41. Deuteronomy 1:37לֵאמֹ֑ר · and He said
    The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.
  42. Deuteronomy 1:39אֲמַרְתֶּ֜ם · you said
    And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.
  43. Deuteronomy 1:41וַתֹּאמְר֣וּ
    “We have sinned against the LORD,” you replied. “We will go up and fight, as the LORD our God has commanded us.” Then each of you put on his weapons of war, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country.
  44. Deuteronomy 1:42וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said; אֱמֹ֤ר · Tell
    But the LORD said to me, “Tell them not to go up and fight, for I am not with you to keep you from defeat by your enemies.”
  45. Deuteronomy 2:2וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · said
    At this time the LORD said to me,