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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. Judges 13:8וַיֹּאמַ֑ר
    Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”
  2. Judges 13:10וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · to tell
    The woman ran quickly to tell her husband, “Behold, the man who came to me the other day has reappeared!”
  3. Judges 13:11וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · he asked; וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · am, ” he said
    So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he asked, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” “I am,” he said.
  4. Judges 13:12וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · asked
    Then Manoah asked, “When your words come to pass, what will be the boy’s rule of life and mission?”
  5. Judges 13:13וַיֹּ֛אמֶר · answered; אָמַ֥רְתִּי · I told her
    So the angel of the LORD answered Manoah, “Your wife is to do everything I told her.
  6. Judges 13:15וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · said
    “Please stay here,” Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “and we will prepare a young goat for you.”
  7. Judges 13:16וַיֹּאמֶר֩ · replied
    And the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was the angel of the LORD.
  8. Judges 13:17וַיֹּ֧אמֶר · said
    Then Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “What is your name, so that we may honor you when your word comes to pass?”
  9. Judges 13:18וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    “Why do you ask my name,” said the angel of the LORD, “since it is beyond comprehension?”
  10. Judges 13:22וַיֹּ֧אמֶר · said
    “We are going to die,” he said to his wife, “for we have seen God!”
  11. Judges 13:23וַתֹּ֧אמֶר · replied
    But his wife replied, “If the LORD had intended to kill us, He would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things or spoken to us this way.”
  12. Judges 14:2וַיֹּ֗אמֶר
    So he returned and told his father and mother, “I have seen a daughter of the Philistines in Timnah. Now get her for me as a wife.”
  13. Judges 14:3וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · replied; וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · told
    But his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”
  14. Judges 14:12וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    “Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.
  15. Judges 14:13וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ · they replied
    But if you cannot solve it, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.” “Tell us your riddle,” they replied. “Let us hear it.”
  16. Judges 14:14וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · So he said
    So he said to them: “Out of the eater came something to eat, and out of the strong came something sweet.” For three days they were unable to explain the riddle.
  17. Judges 14:15וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ · they said
    So on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”
  18. Judges 14:16וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · and said; וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · he said
    Then Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”
  19. Judges 14:18וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ · said; וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · So he said
    Before sunset on the seventh day, the men of the city said to Samson: “What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?” So he said to them: “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle!”
  20. Judges 15:1וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · he said
    Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.
  21. Judges 15:2וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · I was sure; אָמֹ֤ר; אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ · said
    “I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”
  22. Judges 15:3וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in doing harm to the Philistines.”
  23. Judges 15:6וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ · demanded; וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ · they were told
    “Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.
  24. Judges 15:7וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · told
    And Samson told them, “Because you have done this, I will not rest until I have taken vengeance upon you.”
  25. Judges 15:10וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ · said; וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ · The Philistines replied
    “Why have you attacked us?” said the men of Judah. The Philistines replied, “We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he has done to us.”
  26. Judges 15:11וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ · and they asked; וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · he replied
    In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.
  27. Judges 15:12וַיֹּ֤אמְרוּ · But they said; וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · replied
    But they said to him, “We have come down to arrest you and hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson replied, “Swear to me that you will not kill me yourselves.”
  28. Judges 15:13וַיֹּ֧אמְרוּ · they answered; לֵאמֹ֗ר
    “No,” they answered, “we will not kill you, but we will tie you up securely and hand you over to them.” So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.
  29. Judges 15:16וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    Then Samson said: “With the jawbone of a donkey I have piled them into heaps. With the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men.”
  30. Judges 15:18וַיֹּאמַ֔ר
    And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
  31. Judges 16:2לֵאמֹ֗ר · heard that; לֵאמֹ֔ר · saying
    When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded that place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They were quiet throughout the night, saying, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”
  32. Judges 16:5וַיֹּ֨אמְרוּ · and said
    The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”
  33. Judges 16:6וַתֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”
  34. Judges 16:7וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · told her
    Samson told her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become as weak as any other man.”
  35. Judges 16:9וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · she called out
    While the men were hidden in her room, she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he snapped the bowstrings like a strand of yarn seared by a flame. So the source of his strength remained unknown.
  36. Judges 16:10וַתֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me! Now please tell me how you can be tied up.”
  37. Judges 16:11וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · He replied
    He replied, “If they tie me up with new ropes that have never been used, I will become as weak as any other man.”