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
- 1 Samuel 26:18וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · And he continuedAnd he continued, “Why is my lord pursuing his servant? What have I done? What evil is in my hand?
- 1 Samuel 26:19לֵאמֹ֔ר · sayingNow please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He accept an offering. But if men have done it, may they be cursed in the presence of the LORD! For today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’
- 1 Samuel 26:21וַיֹּאמֶר֩ · repliedThen Saul replied, “I have sinned. Come back, David my son. I will never harm you again, because today you considered my life precious. I have played the fool and have committed a grave error!”
- 1 Samuel 26:22וַיֹּ֔אמֶר“Here is the king’s spear,” David answered. “Let one of the young men come over and get it.
- 1 Samuel 26:25וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · saidSaul said to him, “May you be blessed, David my son. You will accomplish great things and will surely prevail.” So David went on his way, and Saul returned home.
- 1 Samuel 27:1וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · saidDavid, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”
- 1 Samuel 27:5וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · saidThen David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let me be assigned a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. For why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”
- 1 Samuel 27:10וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · would ask him; וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · would reply…who would ask him, “What have you raided today?” And David would reply, “The Negev of Judah,” or “The Negev of Jerahmeel,” or “The Negev of the Kenites.”
- 1 Samuel 27:11לֵאמֹ֔ר · for he said; לֵאמֹ֑ר · sayingDavid did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he said, “Otherwise they will report us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’” And this was David’s custom the whole time he lived in Philistine territory.
- 1 Samuel 27:12לֵאמֹ֑ר · thinkingSo Achish trusted David, thinking, “Since he has made himself an utter stench to his people Israel, he will be my servant forever.”
- 1 Samuel 28:1וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · saidNow in those days the Philistines gathered their forces for warfare against Israel. So Achish said to David, “You must understand that you and your men are to go out to battle with me.”
- 1 Samuel 28:2וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · replied; וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · saidDavid replied, “Then you will come to know what your servant can do.” “Very well,” said Achish. “I will make you my bodyguard for life.”
- 1 Samuel 28:7וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said; וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ · repliedThen Saul said to his servants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, so I can go and consult her.” “There is a medium at Endor,” his servants replied.
- 1 Samuel 28:8וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · and Saul said; אֹמַ֖ר · I nameSo Saul disguised himself by putting on different clothes, and he set out with two of his men. They came to the woman at night, and Saul said, “Consult a spirit for me. Bring up for me the one I name.”
- 1 Samuel 28:9וַתֹּ֨אמֶר · repliedBut the woman replied, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has killed the mediums and spiritists in the land. Why have you set a trap to get me killed?”
- 1 Samuel 28:10לֵאמֹ֑רThen Saul swore to her by the LORD: “As surely as the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this.”
- 1 Samuel 28:11וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · asked; וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · he replied“Whom shall I bring up for you?” the woman asked. “Bring up Samuel,” he replied.
- 1 Samuel 28:12וַתֹּאמֶר֩ · said; לֵאמֹ֛רBut when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out in a loud voice and said to Saul, “Why have you deceived me? You are Saul!”
- 1 Samuel 28:13וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · replied; וַתֹּ֤אמֶר · answered“Do not be afraid,” the king replied. “What do you see?” “I see a god coming up out of the earth,” the woman answered.
- 1 Samuel 28:14וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · asked Saul; וַתֹּ֗אמֶר · she replied“What does he look like?” asked Saul. “An old man is coming up,” she replied. “And he is wearing a robe.” So Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed facedown in reverence.
- 1 Samuel 28:15וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said; וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · repliedThen Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” “I am deeply distressed,” replied Saul. “The Philistines are fighting against me, and God has turned away from me. He no longer answers me, either by prophets or by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what to do.”
- 1 Samuel 28:16וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · asked“Why do you consult me,” asked Samuel, “since the LORD has turned away from you and become your enemy?
- 1 Samuel 28:21וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · she saidWhen the woman came to Saul and saw how distraught he was, she said to him, “Look, your maidservant has obeyed your voice. I took my life in my hands and did as you told me.
- 1 Samuel 28:23וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · sayingSaul refused, saying, “I will not eat.” But his servants joined the woman in urging him, and he heeded their voice. He got up from the ground and sat on the bed.
- 1 Samuel 29:3וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ · asked; וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · repliedThen the commanders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish replied, “Is this not David, the servant of King Saul of Israel? He has been with me all these days, even years, and from the day he defected until today I have found no fault in him.”
- 1 Samuel 29:4וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ · and toldBut the commanders of the Philistines were angry with Achish and told him, “Send that man back and let him return to the place you assigned him. He must not go down with us into battle only to become our adversary during the war. What better way for him to regain the favor of his master than with the heads of our men?
- 1 Samuel 29:5לֵאמֹ֑רIs this not the David about whom they sing in their dances: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”
- 1 Samuel 29:6וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and told himSo Achish summoned David and told him, “As surely as the LORD lives, you have been upright, and it seems right in my sight that you should march in and out with me in the army, because I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until this day. But you are not good in the sight of the leaders.
- 1 Samuel 29:8וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · replied“But what have I done?” David replied. “What have you found against your servant, from the day I came to you until today, to keep me from going along to fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”
- 1 Samuel 29:9וַיֹּ֣אמֶר; אָֽמְר֔וּ · have saidAchish replied, “I know that you are as pleasing in my sight as an angel of God. But the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go into battle with us.’
- 1 Samuel 30:6אָמְר֤וּ · spokeAnd David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of every man grieved for his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.
- 1 Samuel 30:7וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · saidThen David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.” So Abiathar brought it to him,
- 1 Samuel 30:8לֵאמֹ֔ר; וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · [the LORD] replied…and David inquired of the LORD: “Should I pursue these raiders? Will I overtake them?” “Pursue them,” the LORD replied, “for you will surely overtake them and rescue the captives.”
- 1 Samuel 30:13וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · asked; וַיֹּ֜אמֶר · he repliedThen David asked him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” “I am an Egyptian,” he replied, “the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me three days ago when I fell ill.
- 1 Samuel 30:15וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · asked; וַיֹּ֡אמֶר · And [the man] replied“Will you lead me to these raiders?” David asked. And the man replied, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or deliver me into the hand of my master, and I will lead you to them.”