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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 19:23וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and said
    The owner of the house went out and said to them, “No, my brothers, do not do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Do not commit this outrage.
  2. Judges 19:28וַיֹּ֧אמֶר · he told her
    “Get up,” he told her. “Let us go.” But there was no response. So the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.
  3. Judges 19:30וְאָמַר֙ · it said
    And everyone who saw it said, “Nothing like this has been seen or done from the day the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt until this day. Think it over, take counsel, and speak up!”
  4. Judges 20:3וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ · asked
    (Meanwhile the Benjamites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) And the Israelites asked, “Tell us, how did this wicked thing happen?”
  5. Judges 20:4וַיֹּאמַ֑ר
    So the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered: “I and my concubine came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night.
  6. Judges 20:8לֵאמֹ֑ר · and said
    Then all the people stood as one man and said, “Not one of us will return to his tent or to his house.
  7. Judges 20:12לֵאמֹ֑ר · saying
    And the tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What is this wickedness that has occurred among you?
  8. Judges 20:18וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙; וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · replied
    The Israelites set out, went up to Bethel, and inquired of God, “Who of us shall go up first to fight against the Benjamites?” “Judah will be first,” the LORD replied.
  9. Judges 20:23לֵאמֹ֔ר; וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · answered
    They went up and wept before the LORD until evening, inquiring of Him, “Should we again draw near for battle against our brothers the Benjamites?” And the LORD answered, “Go up against them.”
  10. Judges 20:28לֵאמֹר֒ · The Israelites asked; וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · answered
    …and Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, served before it.) The Israelites asked, “Should we again go out to battle against our brothers the Benjamites, or should we stop?” The LORD answered, “Fight, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.”
  11. Judges 20:32וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ · said; אָמְר֗וּ · said
    “We are defeating them as before,” said the Benjamites. But the Israelites said, “Let us retreat and draw them away from the city onto the roads.”
  12. Judges 20:39אָמְר֔וּ · they said
    …the men of Israel would turn in the battle. When the Benjamites had begun to strike them down, killing about thirty men of Israel, they said, “They are defeated before us as in the first battle.”
  13. Judges 21:1לֵאמֹ֑ר · saying
    Now the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”
  14. Judges 21:3וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ · they cried out
    “Why, O LORD God of Israel,” they cried out, “has this happened in Israel? Today in Israel one tribe is missing!”
  15. Judges 21:5וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ · asked; לֵאמֹ֖ר
    The Israelites asked, “Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come to the assembly before the LORD?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah would surely be put to death.
  16. Judges 21:6וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ · and said
    And the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.
  17. Judges 21:8וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ · So they asked
    So they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah?” And, in fact, no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.
  18. Judges 21:10לֵאמֹ֗ר
    So the congregation sent 12,000 of their most valiant men and commanded them: “Go and put to the sword those living in Jabesh-gilead, including women and children.
  19. Judges 21:16וַיֹּֽאמְר֨וּ · said
    Then the elders of the congregation said, “What should we do about wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?”
  20. Judges 21:17וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ · They added
    They added, “There must be heirs for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.
  21. Judges 21:18לֵאמֹ֔ר
    But we cannot give them our daughters as wives.” For the Israelites had sworn, “Cursed is he who gives a wife to a Benjamite.”
  22. Judges 21:19וַיֹּאמְר֡וּ · they said
    “But look,” they said, “there is a yearly feast to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel east of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”
  23. Judges 21:20לֵאמֹ֑ר
    So they commanded the Benjamites: “Go, hide in the vineyards
  24. Judges 21:22וְאָמַ֤רְנוּ · we will tell them
    When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will tell them, ‘Do us a favor by helping them, since we did not get wives for each of them in the war. Since you did not actually give them your daughters, you have no guilt.’”
  25. Ruth 1:8וַתֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.
  26. Ruth 1:10וַתֹּאמַ֖רְנָה־ · and said
    …and said, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”
  27. Ruth 1:11וַתֹּ֤אמֶר · replied
    But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?
  28. Ruth 1:12אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ · I thought
    Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,
  29. Ruth 1:15וַתֹּ֗אמֶר · said Naomi
    “Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”
  30. Ruth 1:16וַתֹּ֤אמֶר · replied
    But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
  31. Ruth 1:19וַתֹּאמַ֖רְנָה · and the women [of the town] exclaimed
    So Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women of the town exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”
  32. Ruth 1:20וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · she replied
    “Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.
  33. Ruth 2:2וַתֹּאמֶר֩ · said; וַתֹּ֥אמֶר · Naomi replied
    And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain after someone in whose sight I may find favor.” “Go ahead, my daughter,” Naomi replied.
  34. Ruth 2:4וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · and said; וַיֹּ֥אמְרוּ · they replied
    Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and said to the harvesters, “The LORD be with you.” “The LORD bless you,” they replied.
  35. Ruth 2:5וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · asked
    And Boaz asked the foreman of his harvesters, “Whose young woman is this?”
  36. Ruth 2:6וַיֹּאמַ֑ר
    The foreman answered, “She is the Moabitess who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.
  37. Ruth 2:7וַתֹּ֗אמֶר · She has said
    She has said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the harvesters.’ So she came out and has continued from morning until now, except that she rested a short time in the shelter.”
  38. Ruth 2:8וַיֹּאמֶר֩ · said
    Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Do not go and glean in another field, and do not go away from this place, but stay here close to my servant girls.
  39. Ruth 2:10וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · and said
    At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?”
  40. Ruth 2:11וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
    Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.
  41. Ruth 2:13וַ֠תֹּאמֶר · she said
    “My lord,” she said, “may I continue to find favor in your eyes, for you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.”
  42. Ruth 2:14וַיֹּאמֶר֩ · said
    At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.
  43. Ruth 2:15לֵאמֹ֗ר
    When Ruth got up to glean, Boaz ordered his young men, “Even if she gathers among the sheaves, do not insult her.