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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. 1 Samuel 17:25וַיֹּ֣אמֶר׀ · had been saying
    Now the men of Israel had been saying, “Do you see how this man keeps coming out to defy Israel? To the man who kills him the king will give great riches. And he will give him his daughter in marriage and exempt his father’s house from taxation in Israel.”
  2. 1 Samuel 17:26וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · asked; לֵאמֹר֒
    David asked the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
  3. 1 Samuel 17:27וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · told; לֵאמֹ֑ר · saying
    The people told him about the offer, saying, “That is what will be done for the man who kills him.”
  4. 1 Samuel 17:28וַיֹּ֣אמֶר׀ · he asked
    Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”
  5. 1 Samuel 17:29וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    “What have I done now?” said David. “Was it not just a question?”
  6. 1 Samuel 17:30וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · and asked
    Then he turned from him toward another and asked about the offer, and those people answered him just as the first ones had answered.
  7. 1 Samuel 17:32וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail on account of this Philistine. Your servant will go and fight him!”
  8. 1 Samuel 17:33וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · replied
    But Saul replied, “You cannot go out against this Philistine to fight him. You are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”
  9. 1 Samuel 17:34וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · replied
    David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,
  10. 1 Samuel 17:37וַיֹּאמֶר֮ · added; וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    David added, “The LORD, who delivered me from the claws of the lion and the bear, will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” “Go,” said Saul, “and may the LORD be with you.”
  11. 1 Samuel 17:39וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    David strapped his sword over the tunic and tried to walk, but he was not accustomed to them. “I cannot walk in these,” David said to Saul. “I am not accustomed to them.” So David took them off.
  12. 1 Samuel 17:43וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    “Am I a dog,” he said to David, “that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
  13. 1 Samuel 17:44וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · he called
    “Come here,” he called to David, “and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”
  14. 1 Samuel 17:45וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    But David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
  15. 1 Samuel 17:55אָמַ֗ר · he said; וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · replied
    As Saul had watched David going out to confront the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” “As surely as you live, O king,” Abner replied, “I do not know.”
  16. 1 Samuel 17:56וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · said
    “Find out whose son this young man is!” said the king.
  17. 1 Samuel 17:58וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · asked; וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · replied
    “Whose son are you, young man?” asked Saul. “I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem,” David replied.
  18. 1 Samuel 18:7וַתֹּאמַ֑רְןָ
    And as the women danced, they sang out: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.”
  19. 1 Samuel 18:8וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · he said
    And Saul was furious and resented this song. “They have ascribed tens of thousands to David,” he said, “but only thousands to me. What more can he have but the kingdom?”
  20. 1 Samuel 18:11וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · thinking
    …and he hurled it, thinking, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.
  21. 1 Samuel 18:17וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said; אָמַ֗ר · was thinking
    Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “I need not raise my hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”
  22. 1 Samuel 18:18וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel, that I should become the son-in-law of the king?”
  23. 1 Samuel 18:21וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · thought; וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    “I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”
  24. 1 Samuel 18:22לֵאמֹ֔ר · and tell him
    Then Saul ordered his servants, “Speak to David privately and tell him, ‘Behold, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become his son-in-law.’”
  25. 1 Samuel 18:23וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · replied
    But when Saul’s servants relayed these words to David, he replied, “Does it seem trivial in your sight to be the son-in-law of the king? I am a poor man and lightly esteemed.”
  26. 1 Samuel 18:24לֵאמֹ֑ר
    And the servants told Saul what David had said.
  27. 1 Samuel 18:25וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · replied; תֹאמְר֣וּ · Say
    Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king desires no other dowry but a hundred Philistine foreskins as revenge on his enemies.’” But Saul intended to cause David’s death at the hands of the Philistines.
  28. 1 Samuel 19:2לֵאמֹ֔ר · saying
    …so he warned David, saying, “My father Saul intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning; find a secret place and hide there.
  29. 1 Samuel 19:4וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and said
    Then Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul and said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David; he has not sinned against you. In fact, his actions have been highly beneficial to you.
  30. 1 Samuel 19:11לֵאמֹ֔ר
    Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
  31. 1 Samuel 19:14וַתֹּ֖אמֶר · Michal said
    When Saul sent the messengers to seize David, Michal said, “He is ill.”
  32. 1 Samuel 19:15לֵאמֹ֑ר · and told them
    But Saul sent the messengers back to see David and told them, “Bring him up to me in his bed so I can kill him.”
  33. 1 Samuel 19:17וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said; וַתֹּ֤אמֶר · replied; אָמַ֥ר · said
    And Saul said to Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this? You sent my enemy away, and he has escaped!” Michal replied, “He said to me, ‘Help me get away, or I will kill you!’”
  34. 1 Samuel 19:19לֵאמֹ֑ר
    When Saul was told that David was at Naioth in Ramah,
  35. 1 Samuel 19:22וַיֹּ֔אמֶר; וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · he was told
    Finally, Saul himself left for Ramah and came to the large cistern at Secu, where he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” “At Naioth in Ramah,” he was told.
  36. 1 Samuel 19:24יֹֽאמְר֔וּ · it is said
    Then Saul stripped off his robes and also prophesied before Samuel. And he collapsed and lay naked all that day and night. That is why it is said, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
  37. 1 Samuel 20:1וַיֹּ֣אמֶר׀ · and asked
    Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? How have I sinned against your father, that he wants to take my life?”
  38. 1 Samuel 20:2וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · Jonathan replied
    “Far from it!” Jonathan replied. “You will not die. Indeed, my father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This cannot be true!”
  39. 1 Samuel 20:3וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙
    But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”