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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 20:17וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · he replied; וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · she said; וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · he answered
    When he had come near to her, the woman asked, “Are you Joab?” “I am,” he replied. “Listen to the words of your servant,” she said. “I am listening,” he answered.
  2. 2 Samuel 20:18וַתֹּ֖אמֶר · Then [the woman] said; לֵאמֹ֑ר; לֵאמֹ֔ר
    Then the woman said, “Long ago they used to say, ‘Seek counsel at Abel,’ and that is how disputes were settled.
  3. 2 Samuel 20:20וַיֹּאמַ֑ר · declared
    “Far be it!” Joab declared. “Far be it from me to swallow up or destroy!
  4. 2 Samuel 20:21וַתֹּ֤אמֶר · replied
    That is not the case. But a man named Sheba son of Bichri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Deliver him alone, and I will depart from the city.” “Look,” the woman replied, “his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”
  5. 2 Samuel 21:1וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
  6. 2 Samuel 21:2וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and spoke
    At this, David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but in his zeal for Israel and Judah, Saul had sought to kill them.)
  7. 2 Samuel 21:3וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · asked
    So David asked the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How can I make amends so that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?”
  8. 2 Samuel 21:4וַיֹּ֧אמְרוּ · said; וַיֹּ֛אמֶר · ask; אֹמְרִ֖ים · he replied
    The Gibeonites said to him, “We need no silver or gold from Saul or his house, nor should you put to death anyone in Israel for us.” “Whatever you ask, I will do for you,” he replied.
  9. 2 Samuel 21:5וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ · And they answered
    And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,
  10. 2 Samuel 21:6וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · said
    …let seven of his male descendants be delivered to us so that we may hang them before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.” “I will give them to you,” said the king.
  11. 2 Samuel 21:16וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · resolved
    Then Ishbi-benob, a descendant of Rapha, whose bronze spear weighed three hundred shekels and who was bearing a new sword, resolved to kill David.
  12. 2 Samuel 21:17לֵאמֹ֗ר
    But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to his aid, struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, “You must never again go out with us to battle, so that the lamp of Israel may not be extinguished.”
  13. 2 Samuel 22:2וַיֹּאמַ֑ר · He said
    He said: “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.
  14. 2 Samuel 23:3אָמַר֙ · spoke
    The God of Israel spoke; the Rock of Israel said to me, ‘He who rules the people with justice, who rules in the fear of God,
  15. 2 Samuel 23:15וַיֹּאמַ֑ר · and said
    David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”
  16. 2 Samuel 23:17וַיֹּ֡אמֶר · saying
    …saying, “Far be it from me, O LORD, to do this! Is this not the blood of the men who risked their lives?” So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty men.
  17. 2 Samuel 24:1לֵאמֹ֔ר · saying
    Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”
  18. 2 Samuel 24:2וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    So the king said to Joab the commander of his army, who was with him, “Go now throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and register the troops, so that I may know their number.”
  19. 2 Samuel 24:3וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · replied
    But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”
  20. 2 Samuel 24:10וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
  21. 2 Samuel 24:11לֵאמֹֽר׃
    When David got up in the morning, the word of the LORD had come to Gad the prophet, David’s seer:
  22. 2 Samuel 24:12אָמַ֣ר · says
    “Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’”
  23. 2 Samuel 24:13וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
    So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
  24. 2 Samuel 24:14וַיֹּ֧אמֶר · answered
    David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”
  25. 2 Samuel 24:16וַ֠יֹּאמֶר · and said
    But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
  26. 2 Samuel 24:17וַיֹּאמֶר֩ · he said; וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙
    When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, the shepherd, have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house.”
  27. 2 Samuel 24:18וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and said
    And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
  28. 2 Samuel 24:21וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said; וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · replied
    “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said. “To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”
  29. 2 Samuel 24:22וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    Araunah said to David, “May my lord the king take whatever seems good to him and offer it up. Here are the oxen for a burnt offering and the threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.
  30. 2 Samuel 24:23וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    O king, Araunah gives all these to the king.” He also said to the king, “May the LORD your God accept you.”
  31. 2 Samuel 24:24וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · replied
    “No,” replied the king, “I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
  32. 1 Kings 1:2וַיֹּ֧אמְרוּ · said
    So his servants said to him, “Let us search for a young virgin for our lord the king, to attend to him and care for him and lie by his side to keep him warm.”
  33. 1 Kings 1:5לֵאמֹ֖ר · saying
    At that time Adonijah, David’s son by Haggith, began to exalt himself, saying, “I will be king!” And he acquired chariots and horsemen and fifty men to run ahead of him.
  34. 1 Kings 1:6לֵאמֹ֔ר · by saying
    (His father had never once reprimanded him by saying, “Why do you act this way?” Adonijah was also very handsome, born next after Absalom.)
  35. 1 Kings 1:11וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said; לֵאמֹ֔ר
    Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, “Have you not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith has become king, and our lord David does not know it?
  36. 1 Kings 1:13וְאָמַ֤רְתְּ · and say; לֵאמֹ֔ר
    Go at once to King David and say, ‘My lord the king, did you not swear to your maidservant, “Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne”? Why then has Adonijah become king?’
  37. 1 Kings 1:16וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · asked
    And Bathsheba bowed down in homage to the king, who asked, “What is your desire?”
  38. 1 Kings 1:17וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · she replied
    “My lord,” she replied, “you yourself swore to your maidservant by the LORD your God: ‘Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne.’
  39. 1 Kings 1:23לֵאמֹ֔ר
    So the king was told, “Nathan the prophet is here.” And Nathan went in and bowed facedown before the king.
  40. 1 Kings 1:24וַיֹּאמֶר֮ · said
    “My lord the king,” said Nathan, “did you say, ‘Adonijah will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne’?