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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 9:3אָמַ֣ר · says
    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!”
  2. 2 Kings 9:5וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · he said; וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · asked; וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · he replied
    …and when he arrived, the army commanders were sitting there. “I have a message for you, commander,” he said. “For which of us?” asked Jehu. “For you, commander,” he replied.
  3. 2 Kings 9:6וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and declared; אָמַ֤ר · says
    So Jehu got up and went into the house, where the young prophet poured the oil on his head and declared, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anoint you king over the LORD’s people Israel.
  4. 2 Kings 9:11וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · they asked; וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · he replied
    When Jehu went out to the servants of his master, they asked, “Is everything all right? Why did this madman come to you?” “You know his kind and their babble,” he replied.
  5. 2 Kings 9:12וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ · they said; וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · So Jehu answered; אָמַ֤ר · He talked; לֵאמֹ֔ר · saying; אָמַ֣ר · says
    “That is a lie!” they said. “Tell us now!” So Jehu answered, “He talked to me about this and that, saying, ‘This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.’”
  6. 2 Kings 9:13וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ · and proclaimed
    Quickly, each man took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare steps. Then they blew the ram’s horn and proclaimed, “Jehu is king!”
  7. 2 Kings 9:15וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    …but King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he had suffered at the hands of the Arameans in the battle against Hazael their king.) So Jehu said, “If you commanders wish to make me king, then do not let anyone escape from the city to go and tell it in Jezreel.”
  8. 2 Kings 9:17וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · and he called out; וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · commanded; וְיֹאמַ֥ר · and ask
    Now the watchman standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops approaching, and he called out, “I see a company of troops!” “Choose a rider,” Joram commanded. “Send him out to meet them and ask, ‘Have you come in peace?’”
  9. 2 Kings 9:18וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · and said; אָמַ֤ר · asks; וַיֹּ֧אמֶר · replied; לֵאמֹ֔ר
    So a horseman rode off to meet Jehu and said, “This is what the king asks: ‘Have you come in peace?’” “What do you know about peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.” And the watchman reported, “The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back.”
  10. 2 Kings 9:19וַיֹּ֛אמֶר · and said; אָמַ֥ר · asks; וַיֹּ֧אמֶר · replied
    So the king sent out a second horseman, who went to them and said, “This is what the king asks: ‘Have you come in peace?’” “What do you know about peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.”
  11. 2 Kings 9:20לֵאמֹ֔ר
    Again the watchman reported, “He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the charioteer is driving like Jehu son of Nimshi—he is driving like a madman!”
  12. 2 Kings 9:21וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · shouted
    “Harness!” Joram shouted, and they harnessed his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his own chariot, and met Jehu on the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.
  13. 2 Kings 9:22וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · he asked; וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · he replied
    When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” he replied, “as long as the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”
  14. 2 Kings 9:23וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · calling out
    Joram turned around and fled, calling out to Ahaziah, “Treachery, Ahaziah!”
  15. 2 Kings 9:25וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · And [Jehu] said
    And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him into the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember that when you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, the LORD lifted up this burden against him:
  16. 2 Kings 9:27וַ֠יֹּאמֶר · shouting
    When King Ahaziah of Judah saw this, he fled up the road toward Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him, shouting, “Shoot him too!” So they shot Ahaziah in his chariot on the Ascent of Gur, near Ibleam, and he fled to Megiddo and died there.
  17. 2 Kings 9:31וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · she asked
    And as Jehu entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, O Zimri, murderer of your master?”
  18. 2 Kings 9:32וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · and called out
    He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three eunuchs looked down at him.
  19. 2 Kings 9:33וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · yelled [Jehu]
    “Throw her down!” yelled Jehu. So they threw her down, and her blood splattered on the wall and on the horses as they trampled her underfoot.
  20. 2 Kings 9:34וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · he said
    Then Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of this cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was the daughter of a king.”
  21. 2 Kings 9:36וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · who replied; לֵאמֹ֑ר
    So they went back and told Jehu, who replied, “This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke through His servant Elijah the Tishbite: ‘On the plot of ground at Jezreel the dogs will devour the flesh of Jezebel.
  22. 2 Kings 9:37יֹאמְר֖וּ · can say
    And Jezebel’s body will lie like dung in the field on the plot of ground at Jezreel, so that no one can say: This is Jezebel.’”
  23. 2 Kings 10:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying:
  24. 2 Kings 10:4וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ · and reasoned
    But they were terrified and reasoned, “If two kings could not stand against him, how can we?”
  25. 2 Kings 10:5לֵאמֹר֙; תֹּאמַ֥ר · you say
    So the palace administrator, the overseer of the city, the elders, and the guardians sent a message to Jehu: “We are your servants, and we will do whatever you say. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your sight.”
  26. 2 Kings 10:6לֵאמֹ֗ר · and said
    Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, seventy in all, were being brought up by the leading men of the city.
  27. 2 Kings 10:8לֵאמֹ֔ר · And [Jehu] ordered; וַיֹּ֗אמֶר
    When the messenger arrived, he told Jehu, “They have brought the heads of the sons of the king.” And Jehu ordered, “Pile them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.”
  28. 2 Kings 10:9וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · and said
    The next morning, Jehu went out and stood before all the people and said, “You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master and killed him. But who killed all these?
  29. 2 Kings 10:13וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · and asked; וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ · they answered
    Jehu met some relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, “Who are you?” “We are relatives of Ahaziah,” they answered, “and we have come down to greet the sons of the king and of the queen mother.”
  30. 2 Kings 10:14וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · Then Jehu ordered
    Then Jehu ordered, “Take them alive.” So his men took them alive, then slaughtered them at the well of Beth-eked—forty-two men. He spared none of them.