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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 Kings 12:5וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · Rehoboam answered
    Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days and then return to me.” So the people departed.
  2. 1 Kings 12:6לֵאמֹ֑ר · he asked
    Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
  3. 1 Kings 12:7לֵאמֹ֗ר
    They replied, “If you will be a servant to these people and serve them this day, and if you will respond by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
  4. 1 Kings 12:9וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · He asked; לֵאמֹ֔ר · saying
    He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”
  5. 1 Kings 12:10לֵאמֹר֒; תֹאמַ֣ר · you should answer; לֵאמֹ֗ר
    The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you must make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!
  6. 1 Kings 12:12לֵאמֹ֔ר
    After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
  7. 1 Kings 12:14לֵאמֹ֔ר · saying
    …and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”
  8. 1 Kings 12:16לֵאמֹ֡ר
    When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home,
  9. 1 Kings 12:22לֵאמֹֽר׃
    But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God:
  10. 1 Kings 12:23אֱמֹ֗ר · Tell; לֵאמֹֽר׃
    “Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and the rest of the people
  11. 1 Kings 12:24אָמַ֣ר · says
    …that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you must return home, for this is My doing.’” So they listened to the word of the LORD and turned back according to the word of the LORD.
  12. 1 Kings 12:26וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · said
    Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom might revert to the house of David.
  13. 1 Kings 12:28וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and said
    After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
  14. 1 Kings 13:2וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙; אָמַ֣ר · says
    And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”
  15. 1 Kings 13:3לֵאמֹ֔ר · saying
    That day the man of God gave a sign, saying, “The LORD has spoken this sign: ‘Surely the altar will be split apart, and the ashes upon it will be poured out.’”
  16. 1 Kings 13:4לֵאמֹ֣ר׀ · and said
    Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.
  17. 1 Kings 13:6וַיֹּ֣אמֶר׀
    Then the king responded to the man of God, “Intercede with the LORD your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him as it was before.
  18. 1 Kings 13:8וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · replied
    But the man of God replied, “If you were to give me half your possessions, I still would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.
  19. 1 Kings 13:9לֵאמֹ֔ר
    For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.’”
  20. 1 Kings 13:13וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · So [the prophet] said
    So the prophet said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” Then they saddled the donkey for him, and he mounted it
  21. 1 Kings 13:14וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and asked; וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · he replied
    …and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” he replied.
  22. 1 Kings 13:15וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · So [the prophet] said
    So the prophet said to the man of God, “Come home with me and eat some bread.”
  23. 1 Kings 13:16וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · But [the man] replied
    But the man replied, “I cannot go home with you, and I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
  24. 1 Kings 13:18וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · Then [the prophet] replied; לֵאמֹ֗ר · saying
    Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,
  25. 1 Kings 13:21לֵאמֹ֔ר · says; אָמַ֣ר
    …and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,
  26. 1 Kings 13:26וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · he said
    When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard this, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the command of the LORD. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, and it has mauled him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to him.”
  27. 1 Kings 13:27לֵאמֹ֔ר
    Then the old prophet instructed his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled it,
  28. 1 Kings 13:31וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · [the prophet] said; לֵאמֹ֔ר
    After he had buried him, the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones,
  29. 1 Kings 14:2וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    …and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Now get up, disguise yourself so they will not recognize you as my wife, and go to Shiloh. For Ahijah the prophet is there; it was he who spoke about my kingship over this people.
  30. 1 Kings 14:5אָמַ֣ר · had said
    But the LORD had said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill. You are to say such and such to her, because when she arrives, she will be disguised.”
  31. 1 Kings 14:6וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · he said
    So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet entering the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you disguised? For I have been sent to you with bad news.
  32. 1 Kings 14:7אִמְרִ֣י · tell; אָמַ֤ר · says
    Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over My people Israel.
  33. 1 Kings 15:18לֵאמֹֽר׃ · with this message
    So Asa withdrew all the silver and gold that remained in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace. He entrusted it to his servants and sent them with this message to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, the king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus:
  34. 1 Kings 16:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha, saying:
  35. 1 Kings 16:16לֵאמֹ֔ר
    …and the people in the camp heard that Zimri had conspired against the king and struck him down. So there in the camp that very day, all Israel proclaimed Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel.
  36. 1 Kings 17:1וַיֹּאמֶר֩ · said
    Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
  37. 1 Kings 17:2לֵאמֹֽר׃
    Then a revelation from the LORD came to Elijah:
  38. 1 Kings 17:8לֵאמֹֽר׃
    Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah:
  39. 1 Kings 17:10וַיֹּאמַ֔ר · and said
    So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink.”
  40. 1 Kings 17:11וַיֹּאמַ֔ר · and said
    And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread.”