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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. Deuteronomy 20:3וְאָמַ֤ר · saying
    …saying to them, “Hear, O Israel, today you are going into battle with your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not be alarmed or terrified because of them.
  2. Deuteronomy 20:5לֵאמֹר֒ · saying
    Furthermore, the officers are to address the army, saying, “Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.
  3. Deuteronomy 20:8וְאָמְר֗וּ · saying
    Then the officers shall speak further to the army, saying, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him return home, so that the hearts of his brothers will not melt like his own.”
  4. Deuteronomy 21:7וְאָמְר֑וּ
    …and they shall declare, “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.
  5. Deuteronomy 21:20וְאָמְר֞וּ · and say
    …and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
  6. Deuteronomy 22:14וְאָמַ֗ר · saying
    …and he then accuses her of shameful conduct and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman and had relations with her, but I discovered she was not a virgin.”
  7. Deuteronomy 22:16וְאָמַ֛ר · say
    …and say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he has come to hate her.
  8. Deuteronomy 22:17לֵאמֹ֗ר · saying
    And now he has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, ‘I discovered that your daughter was not a virgin.’ But here is the proof of her virginity.” And they shall spread out the cloth before the city elders.
  9. Deuteronomy 25:7וְאָֽמְרָה֙ · and say
    But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”
  10. Deuteronomy 25:8וְאָמַ֔ר · and says
    Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, “I do not want to marry her,”
  11. Deuteronomy 25:9וְאָ֣מְרָ֔ה · and declare
    …his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.”
  12. Deuteronomy 26:3וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · and say
    …to the priest who is serving at that time, and say to him, “I declare today to the LORD your God that I have entered the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.”
  13. Deuteronomy 26:5וְאָמַרְתָּ֜
    …and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.
  14. Deuteronomy 26:13וְאָמַרְתָּ֡ · Then you shall declare
    Then you shall declare in the presence of the LORD your God, “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commandments You have given me. I have not transgressed or forgotten Your commandments.
  15. Deuteronomy 26:17הֶאֱמַ֖רְתָּ · you have proclaimed
    Today you have proclaimed that the LORD is your God and that you will walk in His ways, keep His statutes and commandments and ordinances, and listen to His voice.
  16. Deuteronomy 26:18הֶאֱמִֽירְךָ֣ · has proclaimed that
    And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,
  17. Deuteronomy 27:1לֵאמֹ֑ר
    Then Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Keep all the commandments I am giving you today.
  18. Deuteronomy 27:9לֵאמֹ֑ר
    Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel: “Be silent, O Israel, and listen! This day you have become the people of the LORD your God.
  19. Deuteronomy 27:11לֵאמֹֽר׃
    On that day Moses commanded the people:
  20. Deuteronomy 27:14וְאָֽמְר֛וּ · shall proclaim
    Then the Levites shall proclaim in a loud voice to every Israelite:
  21. Deuteronomy 27:15וְאָמְר֖וּ
    ‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  22. Deuteronomy 27:16וְאָמַ֥ר · say
    ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  23. Deuteronomy 27:17וְאָמַ֥ר · say
    ‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary stone.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  24. Deuteronomy 27:18וְאָמַ֥ר · say
    ‘Cursed is he who lets a blind man wander in the road.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  25. Deuteronomy 27:19וְאָמַ֥ר · say
    ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  26. Deuteronomy 27:20וְאָמַ֥ר · say
    ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  27. Deuteronomy 27:21וְאָמַ֥ר · say
    ‘Cursed is he who lies with any animal.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  28. Deuteronomy 27:22וְאָמַ֥ר · say
    ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  29. Deuteronomy 27:23וְאָמַ֥ר · say
    ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his mother-in-law.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  30. Deuteronomy 27:24וְאָמַ֥ר · say
    ‘Cursed is he who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  31. Deuteronomy 27:25וְאָמַ֥ר · say
    ‘Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  32. Deuteronomy 27:26וְאָמַ֥ר · say
    ‘Cursed is he who does not put the words of this law into practice.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  33. Deuteronomy 28:67תֹּאמַר֙ · you will say; תֹּאמַ֖ר · you will say
    In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.
  34. Deuteronomy 28:68אָמַ֣רְתִּֽי · I said
    The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
  35. Deuteronomy 29:2וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and proclaimed
    Moses summoned all Israel and proclaimed to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.
  36. Deuteronomy 29:19לֵאמֹר֙ · saying
    …because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
  37. Deuteronomy 29:22וְאָמַ֞ר
    Then the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.
  38. Deuteronomy 29:24וְאָֽמְרוּ֙ · will ask
    So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
  39. Deuteronomy 29:25וְאָ֣מְר֔וּ · And [the people] will answer
    And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
  40. Deuteronomy 30:12לֵאמֹ֗ר · that you should need to ask
    It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’
  41. Deuteronomy 30:13לֵאמֹ֗ר · that you should need to ask
    And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’
  42. Deuteronomy 31:2וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · he said; אָמַ֣ר · has said
    …he said to them, “I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to come and go, and the LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’
  43. Deuteronomy 31:7וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · and said
    Then Moses called for Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to their fathers to give them, and you shall give it to them as an inheritance.
  44. Deuteronomy 31:10לֵאמֹ֑ר
    Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles,
  45. Deuteronomy 31:14וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, the time of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the Tent of Meeting, so that I may commission him.” So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the Tent of Meeting.
  46. Deuteronomy 31:16וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.
  47. Deuteronomy 31:17וְאָמַר֙ · they will say
    On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’
  48. Deuteronomy 31:23וַיֹּאמֶר֮ · and said
    Then the LORD commissioned Joshua son of Nun and said, “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land that I swore to give them, and I will be with you.”