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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. 2 Samuel 10:2וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent some of his servants to console Hanun concerning his father. But when they arrived in the land of the Ammonites,
  2. 2 Samuel 10:3וַיֹּאמְרוּ֩ · said
    …the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, “Just because David has sent you comforters, do you really believe he is showing respect for your father? Has not David instead sent his servants to explore the city, spy it out, and overthrow it?”
  3. 2 Samuel 10:5וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · told them
    When this was reported to David, he sent messengers to meet the men, since they had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”
  4. 2 Samuel 10:11וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · said Joab
    “If the Arameans are too strong for me,” said Joab, “then you will come to my rescue. And if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to your rescue.
  5. 2 Samuel 11:3וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · and he was told
    So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
  6. 2 Samuel 11:5וַתֹּ֖אמֶר · saying
    And the woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”
  7. 2 Samuel 11:8וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    Then he said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king followed him.
  8. 2 Samuel 11:10לֵאמֹ֔ר; וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · asked
    And David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey?” David asked Uriah. “Why didn’t you go home?”
  9. 2 Samuel 11:11וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · answered
    Uriah answered, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!”
  10. 2 Samuel 11:12וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    “Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
  11. 2 Samuel 11:15לֵאמֹ֑ר
    In the letter he wrote: “Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle; then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and killed.”
  12. 2 Samuel 11:19לֵאמֹ֑ר
    …and instructed the messenger, “When you have finished giving the king a full account of the battle,
  13. 2 Samuel 11:20וְאָמַ֣ר · he may ask
    …if the king’s anger flares, he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Did you not realize they would shoot from atop the wall?
  14. 2 Samuel 11:21וְאָ֣מַרְתָּ֔ · [If he asks you this,] then you are to say
    Who struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then you are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.’”
  15. 2 Samuel 11:23וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    The messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
  16. 2 Samuel 11:25וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · told; תֹאמַ֤ר · Say
    Then David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Do not let this matter upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city and demolish it.’ Encourage him with these words.”
  17. 2 Samuel 12:1וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · he said
    Then the LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he arrived, he said, “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.
  18. 2 Samuel 12:5וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · and said
    David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
  19. 2 Samuel 12:7וַיֹּ֧אמֶר · said; אָמַ֨ר · says
    Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.
  20. 2 Samuel 12:11אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.
  21. 2 Samuel 12:13וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said; וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · replied
    Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.
  22. 2 Samuel 12:18אָֽמְרוּ֙ · they said; נֹאמַ֥ר · can we tell
    On the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”
  23. 2 Samuel 12:19וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · asked; וַיֹּ֥אמְרוּ · they replied
    When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he perceived that the child was dead. So he asked his servants, “Is the child dead?” “He is dead,” they replied.
  24. 2 Samuel 12:21וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ · asked
    “What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.”
  25. 2 Samuel 12:22וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · [David] answered; אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ · I said
    David answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’
  26. 2 Samuel 12:27וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · to say
    Then Joab sent messengers to David to say, “I have fought against Rabbah and have captured the water supply of the city.
  27. 2 Samuel 13:4וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and he asked; וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · replied
    …and he asked Amnon, “Why are you, the son of the king, so depressed morning after morning? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon replied, “I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”
  28. 2 Samuel 13:5וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · told; וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · say
    Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
  29. 2 Samuel 13:6וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”
  30. 2 Samuel 13:7לֵאמֹ֑ר
    Then David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare a meal for him.”
  31. 2 Samuel 13:9וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    Then she brought the pan and set it down before him, but he refused to eat. “Send everyone away!” said Amnon. And everyone went out.
  32. 2 Samuel 13:10וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the bedroom, so that I may eat it from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes she had made and went to her brother Amnon’s bedroom.
  33. 2 Samuel 13:11וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and said
    And when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said, “Come lie with me, my sister!”
  34. 2 Samuel 13:12וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · she cried
    “No, my brother!” she cried. “Do not violate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!
  35. 2 Samuel 13:15וַֽיֹּאמֶר־ · he said
    Then Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that his hatred was greater than the love he previously had. “Get up!” he said to her. “Be gone!”
  36. 2 Samuel 13:16וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · she replied
    “No,” she replied, “sending me away is worse than this great wrong you have already done to me!” But he refused to listen to her.
  37. 2 Samuel 13:17וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · and said
    Instead, he called to his attendant and said, “Throw this woman out and bolt the door behind her!”
  38. 2 Samuel 13:20וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.
  39. 2 Samuel 13:24וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · and said
    And he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired shearers. Will the king and his servants please come with me?”
  40. 2 Samuel 13:25וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · replied
    “No, my son,” the king replied, “we should not all go, or we would be a burden to you.” Although Absalom urged him, he was not willing to go, but gave him his blessing.
  41. 2 Samuel 13:26וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · said
    “If not,” said Absalom, “please let my brother Amnon go with us.” “Why should he go with you?” the king asked.