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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 Kings 4:38וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · he said
    When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”
  2. 2 Kings 4:40וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙
    And they poured it out for the men to eat, but when they tasted the stew they cried out, “There is death in the pot, O man of God!” And they could not eat it.
  3. 2 Kings 4:41וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · Then Elisha said; וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · and said
    Then Elisha said, “Get some flour.” He threw it into the pot and said, “Pour it out for the people to eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.
  4. 2 Kings 4:42וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · said Elisha
    Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.
  5. 2 Kings 4:43וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · asked; וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · said Elisha; אָמַ֛ר · says
    But his servant asked, “How am I to set twenty loaves before a hundred men?” “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha, “for this is what the LORD says: ‘They will eat and have some left over.’”
  6. 2 Kings 5:3וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · She said
    She said to her mistress, “If only my master would go to the prophet who is in Samaria, he would cure him of his leprosy.”
  7. 2 Kings 5:4לֵאמֹ֑ר
    And Naaman went and told his master what the girl from the land of Israel had said.
  8. 2 Kings 5:5וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    “Go now,” said the king of Aram, “and I will send you with a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman departed, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of clothing.
  9. 2 Kings 5:6לֵאמֹ֑ר · stated
    And the letter that he took to the king of Israel stated: “With this letter I am sending my servant Naaman, so that you may cure him of his leprosy.”
  10. 2 Kings 5:7וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · and asked
    When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!”
  11. 2 Kings 5:8לֵאמֹ֔ר
    Now when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king: “Why have you torn your clothes? Please let the man come to me, and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.”
  12. 2 Kings 5:10לֵאמֹ֑ר · who said
    Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be clean.”
  13. 2 Kings 5:11וַיֹּאמֶר֩ · saying; אָמַ֜רְתִּי · I thought that
    But Naaman went away angry, saying, “I thought that he would surely come out, stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the spot to cure my leprosy.
  14. 2 Kings 5:13וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ; אָמַ֥ר · he tells
    Naaman’s servants, however, approached him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’?”
  15. 2 Kings 5:15וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · and declared
    Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God, stood before him, and declared, “Now I know for sure that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”
  16. 2 Kings 5:16וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · But Elisha replied
    But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will not accept it.” And although Naaman urged him to accept it, he refused.
  17. 2 Kings 5:17וַיֹּאמֶר֮ · said
    “If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much soil as a pair of mules can carry. For your servant will never again make a burnt offering or a sacrifice to any other god but the LORD.
  18. 2 Kings 5:19וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · said [Elisha]
    “Go in peace,” said Elisha. But after Naaman had traveled a short distance,
  19. 2 Kings 5:20וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared this Aramean, Naaman, by not accepting what he brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”
  20. 2 Kings 5:21וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · and asked
    So Gehazi pursued Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running toward him, he got down from the chariot to meet him and asked, “Is everything all right?”
  21. 2 Kings 5:22וַיֹּ֣אמֶר׀ · Gehazi replied; לֵאמֹר֒ · to say
    “Everything is all right,” Gehazi replied. “My master has sent me to say, ‘Look, two young men from the sons of the prophets have just now come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two sets of clothing.’”
  22. 2 Kings 5:23וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · insisted
    But Naaman insisted, “Please, take two talents.” And he urged Gehazi to accept them. Then he tied up two talents of silver in two bags along with two sets of clothing and gave them to two of his servants, who carried them ahead of Gehazi.
  23. 2 Kings 5:25וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · asked; וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · he replied
    When Gehazi went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Gehazi, where have you been?” “Your servant did not go anywhere,” he replied.
  24. 2 Kings 5:26וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · But Elisha questioned him
    But Elisha questioned him, “Did not my spirit go with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to accept money and clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants and maidservants?
  25. 2 Kings 6:1וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ · said
    Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Please take note that the place where we meet with you is too small for us.
  26. 2 Kings 6:2וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · said [Elisha]
    Please let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a log so we can build ourselves a place to live there.” “Go,” said Elisha.
  27. 2 Kings 6:3וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · said; וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · he replied
    Then one of them said, “Please come with your servants.” “I will come,” he replied.
  28. 2 Kings 6:5וַיֹּ֛אמֶר
    As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axe head fell into the water. “Oh, my master,” he cried out, “it was borrowed!”
  29. 2 Kings 6:6וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · asked
    “Where did it fall?” asked the man of God. And when he showed him the place, the man of God cut a stick, threw it there, and made the iron float.
  30. 2 Kings 6:7וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · he said
    “Lift it out,” he said, and the man reached out his hand and took it.
  31. 2 Kings 6:8לֵאמֹ֗ר · he said
    Now the king of Aram was at war against Israel. After consulting with his servants, he said, “My camp will be in such and such a place.”
  32. 2 Kings 6:9לֵאמֹ֔ר
    Then the man of God sent word to the king of Israel: “Be careful not to pass by this place, for the Arameans are going down there.”
  33. 2 Kings 6:10אָֽמַר־ · had pointed out
    So the king of Israel sent word to the place the man of God had pointed out. Time and again Elisha warned the king, so that he was on his guard in such places.
  34. 2 Kings 6:11וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · to demand
    For this reason the king of Aram became enraged and called his servants to demand of them, “Tell me, which one of us is on the side of the king of Israel?”
  35. 2 Kings 6:12וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · replied
    But one of his servants replied, “No one, my lord the king. For Elisha, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”
  36. 2 Kings 6:13וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · So the king said; לֵאמֹ֖ר
    So the king said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send men to capture him.” On receiving the report, “Elisha is in Dothan,”
  37. 2 Kings 6:15וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · asked Elisha
    When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early in the morning, behold, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. So he asked Elisha, “Oh, my master, what are we to do?”
  38. 2 Kings 6:16וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · Elisha answered
    “Do not be afraid,” Elisha answered, “for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
  39. 2 Kings 6:17וַיֹּאמַ֔ר
    Then Elisha prayed, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw that the hills were full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
  40. 2 Kings 6:18וַיֹּאמַ֔ר
    As the Arameans came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, “Please strike these people with blindness.” So He struck them with blindness, according to the word of Elisha.
  41. 2 Kings 6:19וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · told
    And Elisha told them, “This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will take you to the man you are seeking.” And he led them to Samaria.