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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. Genesis 26:32וַיֹּ֥אמְרוּ · they told
    On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.
  2. Genesis 27:1וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · and said; וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · [Esau] replied
    When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.
  3. Genesis 27:2וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · said [Isaac]
    “Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.
  4. Genesis 27:6אָֽמְרָ֔ה · said; לֵאמֹ֑ר; לֵאמֹֽר׃
    Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,
  5. Genesis 27:11וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · answered
    Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.
  6. Genesis 27:13וַתֹּ֤אמֶר · replied
    His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”
  7. Genesis 27:18וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and said; וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · he answered
    So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”
  8. Genesis 27:19וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”
  9. Genesis 27:20וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · asked; וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · he replied
    But Isaac asked his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the LORD your God brought it to me,” he replied.
  10. Genesis 27:21וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”
  11. Genesis 27:22וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · and said
    So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
  12. Genesis 27:24וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · Again he asked; וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · And he replied
    Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”
  13. Genesis 27:25וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · said [Isaac]
    “Serve me,” said Isaac, “and let me eat some of my son’s game, so that I may bless you.” Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; then he brought him wine, and he drank.
  14. Genesis 27:26וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · said
    Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”
  15. Genesis 27:27וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · and said
    So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.
  16. Genesis 27:31וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and said
    He too made some tasty food, brought it to his father, and said to him, “My father, sit up and eat of your son’s game, so that you may bless me.”
  17. Genesis 27:32וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · replied; וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · he answered
    But his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.
  18. Genesis 27:33וַיֹּ֡אמֶר · and said
    Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!”
  19. Genesis 27:34וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and said
    When Esau heard his father’s words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, O my father!”
  20. Genesis 27:35וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · But [Isaac] replied
    But Isaac replied, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
  21. Genesis 27:36וַיֹּ֡אמֶר · So [Esau] declared; וַיֹּאמַ֕ר · Then he asked
    So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
  22. Genesis 27:37וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
    But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”
  23. Genesis 27:38וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
  24. Genesis 27:39וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
    His father Isaac answered him: “Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.
  25. Genesis 27:41וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
  26. Genesis 27:42וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · and told
    When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.
  27. Genesis 27:46וַתֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”
  28. Genesis 28:1וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
    So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.
  29. Genesis 28:6לֵאמֹ֔ר
    Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
  30. Genesis 28:13וַיֹּאמַר֒ · and saying
    And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.
  31. Genesis 28:16וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · he said
    When Jacob woke up, he said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”
  32. Genesis 28:17וַיֹּאמַ֔ר · and said
    And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!”
  33. Genesis 28:20לֵאמֹ֑ר · saying
    Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,
  34. Genesis 29:4וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · asked; וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ · they answered
    “My brothers,” Jacob asked the shepherds, “where are you from?” “We are from Haran,” they answered.
  35. Genesis 29:5וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · Jacob asked; וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ · they replied
    “Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?” Jacob asked. “We know him,” they replied.
  36. Genesis 29:6וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · Jacob inquired; וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ · they answered
    “Is he well?” Jacob inquired. “Yes,” they answered, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep.”
  37. Genesis 29:7וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · said Jacob
    “Look,” said Jacob, “it is still broad daylight; it is not yet time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”
  38. Genesis 29:8וַיֹּאמְרוּ֮ · But they replied
    But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”
  39. Genesis 29:14וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · declared
    Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,