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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. Deuteronomy 2:2לֵאמֹֽר׃
    At this time the LORD said to me,
  2. Deuteronomy 2:4לֵאמֹר֒
    …and command the people: ‘You will pass through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, so you must be very careful.
  3. Deuteronomy 2:9וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”
  4. Deuteronomy 2:17לֵאמֹֽר׃
    …the LORD said to me,
  5. Deuteronomy 2:26לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    So from the Wilderness of Kedemoth I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon, saying,
  6. Deuteronomy 2:31וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    Then the LORD said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”
  7. Deuteronomy 3:2וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    But the LORD said to me, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”
  8. Deuteronomy 3:18לֵאמֹ֑ר
    At that time I commanded you: “The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All your men of valor are to cross over, armed for battle, ahead of your brothers, the Israelites.
  9. Deuteronomy 3:21לֵאמֹ֑ר
    And at that time I commanded Joshua: “Your own eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. The LORD will do the same to all the kingdoms you are about to enter.
  10. Deuteronomy 3:23לֵאמֹֽר׃
    At that time I also pleaded with the LORD:
  11. Deuteronomy 3:26וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    But the LORD was angry with me on account of you, and He would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the LORD said to me. “Do not speak to Me again about this matter.
  12. Deuteronomy 4:6וְאָמְר֗וּ · and say
    Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
  13. Deuteronomy 4:10בֶּאֱמֹ֨ר · said
    The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”
  14. Deuteronomy 5:1וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and said
    Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully.
  15. Deuteronomy 5:5לֵאמֹֽר׃ס · And He said
    At that time I was standing between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain. And He said:
  16. Deuteronomy 5:24וַתֹּאמְר֗וּ · and you said
    …and you said, “Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the fire. Today we have seen that a man can live even if God speaks with him.
  17. Deuteronomy 5:27יֹאמַ֖ר · says
    Go near and listen to all that the LORD our God says. Then you can tell us everything the LORD our God tells you; we will listen and obey.”
  18. Deuteronomy 5:28וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    And the LORD heard the words you spoke to me, and He said to me, “I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.
  19. Deuteronomy 5:30אֱמֹ֣ר · and tell
    Go and tell them: ‘Return to your tents.’
  20. Deuteronomy 6:20לֵאמֹ֑ר
    In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”
  21. Deuteronomy 6:21וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · then you are to tell
    …then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
  22. Deuteronomy 7:17תֹאמַר֙ · You may say
    You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”
  23. Deuteronomy 8:17וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ · You might say
    You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”
  24. Deuteronomy 9:4תֹּאמַ֣ר · say; לֵאמֹר֒
    When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.
  25. Deuteronomy 9:12וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”
  26. Deuteronomy 9:13וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · also said; לֵאמֹ֑ר
    The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
  27. Deuteronomy 9:23לֵאמֹ֔ר · He said
    And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.
  28. Deuteronomy 9:25אָמַ֥ר · had said
    So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
  29. Deuteronomy 9:26וָאֹמַר֒ · and said
    And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
  30. Deuteronomy 9:28יֹאמְר֗וּ · will say
    Otherwise, those in the land from which You brought us out will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
  31. Deuteronomy 10:1אָמַ֧ר · said
    At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
  32. Deuteronomy 10:11וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    Then the LORD said to me, “Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, that they may enter and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.”
  33. Deuteronomy 12:20וְאָמַרְתָּ֙ · and say
    When the LORD your God expands your territory as He has promised, and you crave meat and say, “I want to eat meat,” you may eat it whenever you want.
  34. Deuteronomy 12:30לֵאמֹ֨ר · asking
    …be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”
  35. Deuteronomy 13:2לֵאמֹ֑ר · but he says
    …and if the sign or wonder he has spoken to you comes about, but he says, “Let us follow other gods (which you have not known) and let us worship them,”
  36. Deuteronomy 13:6לֵאמֹ֑ר · saying
    If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,
  37. Deuteronomy 13:12לֵאמֹֽר׃ · it said
    If, regarding one of the cities the LORD your God is giving you to inhabit, you hear it said
  38. Deuteronomy 13:13לֵאמֹ֑ר · saying
    …that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),
  39. Deuteronomy 15:9לֵאמֹ֗ר
    Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
  40. Deuteronomy 15:11לֵאמֹ֔ר · to
    For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.
  41. Deuteronomy 15:16יֹאמַ֣ר · your servant says
    But if your servant says to you, ‘I do not want to leave you,’ because he loves you and your household and is well off with you,
  42. Deuteronomy 17:11יֹאמְר֥וּ · they proclaim
    …according to the terms of law they give and the verdict they proclaim. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from the decision they declare to you.
  43. Deuteronomy 17:14וְאָמַרְתָּ֗ · and you say
    When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”
  44. Deuteronomy 17:16אָמַ֣ר · has said
    But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’
  45. Deuteronomy 18:16לֵאמֹ֑ר · when you said
    This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire anymore, so that we will not die!”
  46. Deuteronomy 18:17וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · said
    Then the LORD said to me, “They have spoken well.
  47. Deuteronomy 18:21תֹאמַ֖ר · You may ask
    You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”
  48. Deuteronomy 19:7לֵאמֹ֑ר
    This is why I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.