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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 20:3וַיֹּ֛אמֶר · and he has said
    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.”
  2. 1 Samuel 20:4וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · said; תֹּאמַ֥ר · desire
    Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you desire, I will do for you.”
  3. 1 Samuel 20:5וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · told
    So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I am supposed to dine with the king. Instead, let me go and hide in the field until the third evening from now.
  4. 1 Samuel 20:6וְאָמַרְתָּ֗ · tell him
    If your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.’
  5. 1 Samuel 20:7יֹאמַ֛ר · he says
    If he says, ‘Good,’ then your servant is safe, but if he is enraged, you will know he has evil intentions.
  6. 1 Samuel 20:9וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · replied
    “Never!” Jonathan replied. “If I ever found out that my father had evil intentions against you, would I not tell you?”
  7. 1 Samuel 20:10וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · asked
    Then David asked Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”
  8. 1 Samuel 20:11וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · replied
    “Come,” he replied, “let us go out to the field.” So the two of them went out into the field,
  9. 1 Samuel 20:12וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    …and Jonathan said, “By the LORD, the God of Israel, I will sound out my father by this time tomorrow or the next day. If he is favorable toward you, will I not send for you and tell you?
  10. 1 Samuel 20:18וַיֹּֽאמֶר־ · said
    Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
  11. 1 Samuel 20:21אָמֹר֩ · I expressly say; אֹמַ֨ר
    Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ Now, if I expressly say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,’ then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you, and there is no danger.
  12. 1 Samuel 20:22אֹמַר֙ · I say
    But if I say to the young man, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then you must go, for the LORD has sent you away.
  13. 1 Samuel 20:26אָמַר֙ · he thought
    Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”
  14. 1 Samuel 20:27וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · asked
    But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, David’s place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?”
  15. 1 Samuel 20:29וַיֹּ֡אמֶר · saying
    …saying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he has not come to the king’s table.”
  16. 1 Samuel 20:30וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and he said
    Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?
  17. 1 Samuel 20:32וַיֹּ֧אמֶר
    “Why must he be put to death?” Jonathan replied. “What has he done?”
  18. 1 Samuel 20:36וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · He said
    He said to the boy, “Run and find the arrows I shoot.” And as the boy ran, Jonathan shot an arrow beyond him.
  19. 1 Samuel 20:37וַיֹּ֔אמֶר
    When the boy reached the place where Jonathan’s arrow had fallen, Jonathan called to him, “Isn’t the arrow beyond you?”
  20. 1 Samuel 20:40וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and said
    Then Jonathan gave his equipment to the boy and said, “Go, take it back to the city.”
  21. 1 Samuel 20:42וַיֹּ֧אמֶר · said; לֵאמֹ֔ר · saying
    And Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘May the LORD be a witness between you and me, and between your descendants and mine forever.’” Then David got up and departed, and Jonathan went back into the city.
  22. 1 Samuel 21:1וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · and asked
    Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
  23. 1 Samuel 21:2וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · replied; וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · He told
    “The king has given me a mission,” David replied. “He told me no one is to know about the mission on which I am sending you. And I have directed my young men to meet me at a certain place.
  24. 1 Samuel 21:4וַיֹּ֔אמֶר
    “There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
  25. 1 Samuel 21:5וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
    David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the bodies of the young men are holy even on common missions. How much more so today!”
  26. 1 Samuel 21:8וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · asked
    Then David asked Ahimelech, “Is there not a spear or sword on hand here? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s mission was urgent.”
  27. 1 Samuel 21:9וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · replied; וַיֹּ֧אמֶר · said
    The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want, you may take it. For there is no other but this one here.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”
  28. 1 Samuel 21:11וַיֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ · said; לֵאמֹ֔ר · saying
    But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David, the king of the land? Did they not sing about him in their dances, saying: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”
  29. 1 Samuel 21:14וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · said
    Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you can see that the man is insane! Why have you brought him to me?
  30. 1 Samuel 22:3וַיֹּ֣אמֶר׀ · where he said
    From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with you until I learn what God will do for me.”
  31. 1 Samuel 22:5וַיֹּאמֶר֩ · said
    Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Depart and go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.
  32. 1 Samuel 22:7וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    Then Saul said to his servants, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Is the son of Jesse giving all of you fields and vineyards and making you commanders of thousands or hundreds?
  33. 1 Samuel 22:9וַיֹּאמַ֑ר
    But Doeg the Edomite, who had stationed himself with Saul’s servants, answered: “I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob.
  34. 1 Samuel 22:12וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said; וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · he replied
    “Listen now, son of Ahitub,” said Saul. “Here I am, my lord,” he replied.
  35. 1 Samuel 22:13וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · asked
    And Saul asked him, “Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me? You gave him bread and a sword and inquired of God for him so that he could rise up against me to lie in wait, as he is doing today.”
  36. 1 Samuel 22:14וַיֹּאמַ֑ר
    Ahimelech answered the king, “Who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king’s son-in-law, the captain of your bodyguard and honored in your house?
  37. 1 Samuel 22:16וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · replied
    But the king replied, “You will surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house!”
  38. 1 Samuel 22:17וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · ordered
    Then the king ordered the guards at his side, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because they too sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they did not tell me.” But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to strike the priests of the LORD.
  39. 1 Samuel 22:18וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · ordered
    So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
  40. 1 Samuel 22:22וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Then David said to Abiathar, “I knew that Doeg the Edomite was there that day, and that he was sure to tell Saul. I myself am responsible for the lives of everyone in your father’s house.
  41. 1 Samuel 23:1לֵאמֹ֑ר
    Now it was reported to David, “Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and looting the threshing floors.”
  42. 1 Samuel 23:2לֵאמֹ֔ר; וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    So David inquired of the LORD, “Should I go and attack these Philistines?” And the LORD said to David, “Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.”