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.
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
Occurrences
5,308 total
- Genesis 21:1אָמָ֑ר · He had saidNow the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.
- Genesis 21:6וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · saidThen Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
- Genesis 21:7וַתֹּ֗אמֶר · She addedShe added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
- Genesis 21:10וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · and she said…and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”
- Genesis 21:12וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said; תֹּאמַ֥ר · tellsBut God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.
- Genesis 21:16אָֽמְרָ֔ה · she saidThen she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.
- Genesis 21:17וַיֹּ֥אמֶרThen God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, “What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he lies.
- Genesis 21:22וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said; לֵאמֹ֑רAt that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.
- Genesis 21:24וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · repliedAnd Abraham replied, “I swear it.”
- Genesis 21:26וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · repliedAbimelech replied, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, so I have not heard about it until today.”
- Genesis 21:29וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · asked…and Abimelech asked him, “Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”
- Genesis 21:30וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · He repliedHe replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”
- Genesis 22:1וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and said; וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · he answeredSome time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.
- Genesis 22:2וַיֹּ֡אמֶר · [God] said; אֹמַ֥ר · I will show“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
- Genesis 22:3אָֽמַר־ · had designatedSo Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.
- Genesis 22:5וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · told“Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told his servants. “The boy and I will go over there to worship, and then we will return to you.”
- Genesis 22:7וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said; וַיֹּ֣אמֶר; וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · he replied; וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · said IsaacThen Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” “Here I am, my son,” he replied. “The fire and the wood are here,” said Isaac, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
- Genesis 22:8וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · answeredAbraham answered, “God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two walked on together.
- Genesis 22:9אָֽמַר־ · had designatedWhen they arrived at the place God had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the wood.
- Genesis 22:11וַיֹּ֖אמֶר; וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · he repliedJust then the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.
- Genesis 22:12וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · said [the angel]“Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”
- Genesis 22:14יֵאָמֵ֣ר · it is saidAnd Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
- Genesis 22:16וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · saying…saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,
- Genesis 22:20לֵאמֹ֑רSome time later, Abraham was told, “Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor:
- Genesis 23:3לֵאמֹֽר׃Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,
- Genesis 23:5לֵאמֹ֥רThe Hittites replied to Abraham,
- Genesis 23:8לֵאמֹ֑ר“If you are willing for me to bury my dead,” he said to them, “listen to me, and approach Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf
- Genesis 23:10לֵאמֹֽר׃Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham,
- Genesis 23:13לֵאמֹ֔ר…and said to Ephron in their presence, “If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there.”
- Genesis 23:14לֵאמֹ֥רEphron answered Abraham,
- Genesis 24:2וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · instructedSo Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,
- Genesis 24:5וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · askedThe servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”
- Genesis 24:6וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · repliedAbraham replied, “Make sure that you do not take my son back there.
- Genesis 24:7לֵאמֹ֔ר · sayingThe LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.
- Genesis 24:12וַיֹּאמַ֓ר׀ · he prayed“O LORD, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
- Genesis 24:14אֹמַ֤ר · I say; וְאָמְרָ֣ה · and who respondsNow may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”
- Genesis 24:17וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · and saidSo the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jar.”
- Genesis 24:18וַתֹּ֖אמֶר · she replied“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.
- Genesis 24:19וַתֹּ֗אמֶר · she saidAfter she had given him a drink, she said, “I will also draw water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink.”
- Genesis 24:23וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · he asked“Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”
- Genesis 24:24וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · She repliedShe replied, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor.”