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אָמַר

a.marto sayHow to read Hebrew
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 Kings 3:7לֵאמֹ֗ר; וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · replied Jehoshaphat
    And he sent a message to Jehoshaphat king of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to fight against Moab?” “I will go,” replied Jehoshaphat. “I am as you are, my people are your people, and my horses are your horses.”
  2. 2 Kings 3:8וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · Then he asked; וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · replied Joram
    Then he asked, “Which way shall we go up?” “By way of the Desert of Edom,” replied Joram.
  3. 2 Kings 3:10וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · said
    “Alas,” said the king of Israel, “for the LORD has summoned these three kings to deliver them into the hand of Moab!”
  4. 2 Kings 3:11וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · asked; וַיֹּ֔אמֶר
    But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no prophet of the LORD here? Let us inquire of the LORD through him.” And one of the servants of the king of Israel answered, “Elisha son of Shaphat is here. He used to pour water on the hands of Elijah.”
  5. 2 Kings 3:12וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · affirmed
    Jehoshaphat affirmed, “The word of the LORD is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
  6. 2 Kings 3:13וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said; וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · replied
    Elisha, however, said to the king of Israel, “What have we to do with each other? Go to the prophets of your father and of your mother!” “No,” replied the king of Israel, “for it is the LORD who has summoned these three kings to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
  7. 2 Kings 3:14וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    Then Elisha said, “As surely as the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not for my regard for the presence of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would not look at you or acknowledge you.
  8. 2 Kings 3:16וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · and he said; אָמַ֣ר · says
    …and he said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Dig this valley full of ditches.’
  9. 2 Kings 3:17אָמַ֣ר · says
    For the LORD says, ‘You will not see wind or rain, but the valley will be filled with water, and you will drink—you and your cattle and your animals.’
  10. 2 Kings 3:23וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ · they exclaimed
    “This is blood!” they exclaimed. “The kings have clashed swords and slaughtered one another. Now to the plunder, Moab!”
  11. 2 Kings 4:1לֵאמֹ֗ר
    Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”
  12. 2 Kings 4:2וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · asked; וַתֹּ֗אמֶר · She answered
    “How can I help you?” asked Elisha. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”
  13. 2 Kings 4:3וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · said [Elisha]
    “Go,” said Elisha, “borrow empty jars from all your neighbors. Do not gather just a few.
  14. 2 Kings 4:6וַתֹּ֤אמֶר · she said; וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · But he replied
    When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another.” But he replied, “There are no more jars.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
  15. 2 Kings 4:7וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · and he said
    She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt. Then you and your sons can live on the remainder.”
  16. 2 Kings 4:9וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · Then [the woman] said
    Then the woman said to her husband, “Behold, now I know that the one who often comes our way is a holy man of God.
  17. 2 Kings 4:12וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · And he said
    And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call the Shunammite woman.” And when he had called her, she stood before him,
  18. 2 Kings 4:13וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and [Elisha] said; אֱמָר־ · tell; וַתֹּ֕אמֶר · she replied
    …and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ‘Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’” “I have a home among my own people,” she replied.
  19. 2 Kings 4:14וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · So he asked; וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · replied
    So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?” “Well, she has no son,” Gehazi replied, “and her husband is old.”
  20. 2 Kings 4:15וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · said Elisha
    “Call her,” said Elisha. So Gehazi called her, and she stood in the doorway.
  21. 2 Kings 4:16וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · And Elisha declared; וַתֹּ֗אמֶר · she said
    And Elisha declared, “At this time next year, you will hold a son in your arms.” “No, my lord,” she said. “Do not lie to your maidservant, O man of God.”
  22. 2 Kings 4:19וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · he complained; וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · So his father told
    “My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
  23. 2 Kings 4:22וַתֹּ֗אמֶר · and said
    And the woman called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may go quickly to the man of God and return.”
  24. 2 Kings 4:23וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · he replied; וַתֹּ֖אמֶר · she said
    “Why would you go to him today?” he replied. “It is not a New Moon or a Sabbath.” “Everything is all right,” she said.
  25. 2 Kings 4:24וַתֹּ֥אמֶר · and told; אָמַ֥רְתִּי · I tell
    Then she saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Drive onward; do not slow the pace for me unless I tell you.”
  26. 2 Kings 4:25וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · he said
    So she set out and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, there is the Shunammite woman.
  27. 2 Kings 4:26וֶאֱמָר־ · and ask; וַתֹּ֖אמֶר · And she answered
    Please run out now to meet her and ask, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?’” And she answered, “Everything is all right.”
  28. 2 Kings 4:27וַיֹּאמֶר֩ · said
    When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me.”
  29. 2 Kings 4:28וַתֹּ֕אמֶר · Then she said; אָמַ֔רְתִּי · I say
    Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”
  30. 2 Kings 4:29וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · So Elisha said
    So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Then lay my staff on the boy’s face.”
  31. 2 Kings 4:30וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · said
    And the mother of the boy said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.
  32. 2 Kings 4:31לֵאמֹ֔ר
    Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So he went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”
  33. 2 Kings 4:36וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · and said; וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · Then Elisha said
    Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” So he called her and she came. Then Elisha said, “Pick up your son.”