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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 6:20וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    When they had entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O LORD, open the eyes of these men that they may see.” Then the LORD opened their eyes, and they looked around and discovered that they were in Samaria.
  2. 2 Kings 6:21וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · he asked
    And when the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “My father, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them?”
  3. 2 Kings 6:22וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · he replied
    “Do not kill them,” he replied. “Would you kill those you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them, that they may eat and drink and then return to their master.”
  4. 2 Kings 6:26לֵאמֹ֔ר
    As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”
  5. 2 Kings 6:27וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · He answered
    He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?”
  6. 2 Kings 6:28וַיֹּֽאמֶר־ · asked; וַתֹּ֗אמֶר · And she answered; אָמְרָ֣ה · said
    Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him, and tomorrow we will eat my son.’
  7. 2 Kings 6:29וָאֹמַ֨ר · I said
    So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him.’ But she had hidden her son.”
  8. 2 Kings 6:31וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · He announced
    He announced, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders through this day!”
  9. 2 Kings 6:32אָמַ֣ר · said
    Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”
  10. 2 Kings 6:33וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · And [the king] said
    While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him. And the king said, “This calamity is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?”
  11. 2 Kings 7:1וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said; אָמַ֣ר · says
    Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the LORD says: ‘About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel.’”
  12. 2 Kings 7:2וַיֹּאמַר֒; וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · replied [Elisha]
    But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”
  13. 2 Kings 7:3וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ · and they said
    Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate, and they said to one another, “Why just sit here until we die?
  14. 2 Kings 7:4אָמַרְנוּ֩ · we say
    If we say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”
  15. 2 Kings 7:6וַיֹּאמְר֞וּ · so that they said
    For the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots, horses, and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel must have hired the kings of the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us.”
  16. 2 Kings 7:9וַיֹּאמְרוּ֩ · Finally, they said
    Finally, they said to one another, “We are not doing what is right. Today is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until morning light, our sin will overtake us. Now, therefore, let us go and tell the king’s household.”
  17. 2 Kings 7:10לֵאמֹ֔ר
    So they went and called out to the gatekeepers of the city, saying, “We went to the Aramean camp and no one was there—not a trace—only tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents were intact.”
  18. 2 Kings 7:12וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · and said; לֵאמֹ֔ר · thinking
    So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving, so they have left the camp to hide in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and enter the city.’”
  19. 2 Kings 7:13וַיֹּ֗אמֶר
    But one of his servants replied, “Please, have scouts take five of the horses that remain in the city. Their plight will be no worse than all the Israelites who are left here. You can see that all the Israelites here are doomed. So let us send them and find out.”
  20. 2 Kings 7:14לֵאמֹ֖ר · saying
    Then the scouts took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the Aramean army, saying, “Go and see.”
  21. 2 Kings 7:18לֵאמֹ֑ר
    It happened just as the man of God had told the king: “About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel.”
  22. 2 Kings 7:19וַיֹּאמַר֒; וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · So Elisha had replied
    And the officer had answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” So Elisha had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”
  23. 2 Kings 8:1לֵאמֹ֗ר
    Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed that a seven-year famine will come to the land.”
  24. 2 Kings 8:4לֵאמֹ֑ר · saying
    Now the king had been speaking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please relate to me all the great things Elisha has done.”
  25. 2 Kings 8:5וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    And Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought the dead back to life. Just then the woman whose son Elisha had revived came to appeal to the king for her house and her land. So Gehazi said, “My lord the king, this is the woman, and this is the son Elisha restored to life.”
  26. 2 Kings 8:6לֵאמֹ֗ר · saying
    When the king asked the woman, she confirmed it. So the king appointed for her an officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, along with all the proceeds of the field from the day that she left the country until now.”
  27. 2 Kings 8:7לֵאמֹ֔ר
    Then Elisha came to Damascus while Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and the king was told, “The man of God has come here.”
  28. 2 Kings 8:8וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said; לֵאמֹ֔ר
    So the king said to Hazael, “Take a gift in your hand, go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD through him, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”
  29. 2 Kings 8:9וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · and said; לֵאמֹ֔ר · to ask
    So Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him a gift of forty camel loads of every good thing from Damascus. And he went in and stood before him and said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”
  30. 2 Kings 8:10וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · answered; אֱמָר־ · and tell him
    Elisha answered, “Go and tell him, ‘You will surely recover.’ But the LORD has shown me that in fact he will die.”
  31. 2 Kings 8:12וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · asked; וַיֹּ֡אמֶר · [Elisha] replied
    “Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.”
  32. 2 Kings 8:13וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said; וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · answered
    “But how could your servant, a mere dog, do such a monstrous thing?” said Hazael. And Elisha answered, “The LORD has shown me that you will be king over Aram.”
  33. 2 Kings 8:14וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · who asked; אָמַ֥ר · say; וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · And he replied; אָ֥מַר · He told me
    So Hazael left Elisha and went to his master, who asked him, “What did Elisha say to you?” And he replied, “He told me that you would surely recover.”
  34. 2 Kings 8:19אָֽמַר־ · He had promised
    Yet for the sake of His servant David, the LORD was unwilling to destroy Judah, since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.
  35. 2 Kings 9:1וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · and said
    Now Elisha the prophet summoned one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak under your belt, take this flask of oil, and go to Ramoth-gilead.
  36. 2 Kings 9:3וְאָֽמַרְתָּ֙ · and declare
    Then take the flask of oil, pour it on his head, and declare, ‘This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.’ Then open the door and run. Do not delay!”