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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 10:15וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · and asked; וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · replied
    When he left there, he found Jehonadab son of Rechab, who was coming to meet him. Jehu greeted him and asked, “Is your heart as true to mine as my heart is to yours?” “It is!” Jehonadab replied. “If it is,” said Jehu, “give me your hand.” So he gave him his hand, and Jehu helped him into his chariot,
  2. 2 Kings 10:16וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · saying
    …saying, “Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD!” So he had him ride in his chariot.
  3. 2 Kings 10:18וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and said
    Then Jehu brought all the people together and said, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him a lot.
  4. 2 Kings 10:20וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · commanded
    And Jehu commanded, “Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal.” So they announced it.
  5. 2 Kings 10:22וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · And [Jehu] said
    And Jehu said to the keeper of the wardrobe, “Bring out garments for all the servants of Baal.” So he brought out garments for them.
  6. 2 Kings 10:23וַיֹּ֜אמֶר · and Jehu said
    Next, Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rechab entered the temple of Baal, and Jehu said to the servants of Baal, “Look around to see that there are no servants of the LORD here among you—only servants of Baal.”
  7. 2 Kings 10:24וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · and warned them
    And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside and warned them, “If anyone allows one of the men I am delivering into your hands to escape, he will forfeit his life for theirs.”
  8. 2 Kings 10:25וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    When he had finished making the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guards and officers, “Go in and kill them. Do not let anyone out.” So the guards and officers put them to the sword, threw the bodies out, and went into the inner room of the temple of Baal.
  9. 2 Kings 10:30וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Nevertheless, the LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in My sight and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in My heart, four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel.”
  10. 2 Kings 11:5לֵאמֹ֔ר
    …and commanded them, “This is what you are to do: A third of you who come on duty on the Sabbath shall guard the royal palace,
  11. 2 Kings 11:12וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ · and declared
    Then Jehoiada brought out the king’s son, put the crown on him, presented him with the Testimony, and proclaimed him king. They anointed him, and the people clapped their hands and declared, “Long live the king!”
  12. 2 Kings 11:15וַיֹּ֤אמֶר; אָמַ֣ר · had said
    And Jehoiada the priest ordered the commanders of hundreds in charge of the army, “Bring her out between the ranks, and put to the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “She must not be put to death in the house of the LORD.”
  13. 2 Kings 12:4וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Then Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as sacred gifts into the house of the LORD—the census money, the money from vows, and the money brought voluntarily into the house of the LORD.
  14. 2 Kings 12:7וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and said
    So King Joash called Jehoiada and the other priests and said, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, therefore, take no more money from your constituency, but hand it over for the repair of the temple.”
  15. 2 Kings 13:14וַיֹּאמַ֔ר · saying
    When Elisha had fallen sick with the illness from which he would die, Jehoash king of Israel came down to him and wept over him, saying, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!”
  16. 2 Kings 13:15וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · told
    Elisha told him, “Take a bow and some arrows.” So Jehoash took a bow and some arrows.
  17. 2 Kings 13:16וַיֹּ֣אמֶר׀ · Then Elisha said
    Then Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Put your hand on the bow.” So the king put his hand on the bow, and Elisha put his hands on the king’s hands.
  18. 2 Kings 13:17וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · said Elisha; וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said; וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · And Elisha declared
    “Open the east window,” said Elisha. So he opened it and Elisha said, “Shoot!” So he shot. And Elisha declared: “This is the LORD’s arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram, for you shall strike the Arameans in Aphek until you have put an end to them.”
  19. 2 Kings 13:18וַיֹּ֛אמֶר · Then Elisha said; וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · and Elisha said
    Then Elisha said, “Take the arrows!” So he took them, and Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground!” So he struck the ground three times and stopped.
  20. 2 Kings 13:19וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · and said
    But the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times. Then you would have struck down Aram until you had put an end to it. But now you will strike down Aram only three times.”
  21. 2 Kings 14:6לֵאמֹ֗ר
    Yet he did not put the sons of the murderers to death, but acted according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”
  22. 2 Kings 14:8לֵאמֹ֑ר · he said
    Then Amaziah sent messengers to the king of Israel Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu. “Come, let us meet face to face,” he said.
  23. 2 Kings 14:9לֵאמֹר֒; לֵאמֹ֔ר · saying
    But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle.
  24. 2 Kings 15:12לֵאמֹ֔ר
    So the word of the LORD spoken to Jehu was fulfilled: “Four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel.”
  25. 2 Kings 16:7לֵאמֹ֔ר · saying
    So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hands of the kings of Aram and Israel, who are rising up against me.”
  26. 2 Kings 16:15לֵאמֹ֗ר
    Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, “Offer on the great altar the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, and the king’s burnt offering and grain offering, as well as the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings of all the people of the land. Splatter on the altar all the blood of the burnt offerings and sacrifices. But I will use the bronze altar to seek guidance.”
  27. 2 Kings 17:12אָמַ֤ר · had told
    They served idols, although the LORD had told them, “You shall not do this thing.”
  28. 2 Kings 17:13לֵאמֹ֗ר · saying
    Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”
  29. 2 Kings 17:26וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ · So they spoke; לֵאמֹר֒ · saying
    So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The peoples that you have removed and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land. Because of this, He has sent lions among them, which are indeed killing them off.”
  30. 2 Kings 17:27לֵאמֹ֗ר
    Then the king of Assyria commanded: “Send back one of the priests you carried off from Samaria, and have him go back to live there and teach the requirements of the God of the land.”
  31. 2 Kings 17:35לֵאמֹ֔ר
    For the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites and commanded them, “Do not worship other gods or bow down to them; do not serve them or sacrifice to them.
  32. 2 Kings 18:14לֵאמֹ֤ר׀ · saying
    So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand from me.” And the king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
  33. 2 Kings 18:19וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said; אִמְרוּ־ · Tell; אָמַ֞ר · says
    The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?
  34. 2 Kings 18:20אָמַ֙רְתָּ֙ · You claim
    You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?
  35. 2 Kings 18:22תֹאמְר֣וּן · you say; וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · saying
    But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?
  36. 2 Kings 18:25אָמַ֣ר · said
    So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”
  37. 2 Kings 18:26וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
  38. 2 Kings 18:27וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · replied
    But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
  39. 2 Kings 18:28וַיֹּ֔אמֶר
    Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!
  40. 2 Kings 18:29אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you; he cannot deliver you from my hand.