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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 18:30לֵאמֹ֔ר · when he says
    Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’
  2. 2 Kings 18:31אָמַ֜ר · says
    Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,
  3. 2 Kings 18:32לֵאמֹ֔ר · when he says
    …until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’
  4. 2 Kings 18:36לֵאמֹ֖ר
    But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
  5. 2 Kings 19:3וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ · to tell; אָמַ֣ר · says
    …to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.
  6. 2 Kings 19:6וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · replied; תֹאמְר֖וּן · Tell; אָמַ֣ר · says
    …who replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
  7. 2 Kings 19:9לֵאמֹ֔ר; לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    Now Sennacherib had been warned about Tirhakah king of Cush: “Look, he has set out to fight against you.” So Sennacherib again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
  8. 2 Kings 19:10תֹאמְר֗וּן · Give this message; לֵאמֹ֔ר; לֵאמֹ֑ר · by saying
    “Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
  9. 2 Kings 19:15וַיֹּאמַר֒
    And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.
  10. 2 Kings 19:20לֵאמֹ֑ר; אָמַ֤ר · says
    Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria.
  11. 2 Kings 19:23וַתֹּ֗אמֶר · and you have said
    Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.
  12. 2 Kings 19:32אָמַ֤ר · says
    So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.
  13. 2 Kings 20:1וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · and said; אָמַ֤ר · says
    In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”
  14. 2 Kings 20:2לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying,
  15. 2 Kings 20:4לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    Before Isaiah had left the middle courtyard, the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
  16. 2 Kings 20:5וְאָמַרְתָּ֞ · and tell; אָמַ֤ר · says
    “Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.
  17. 2 Kings 20:7וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” So they brought it and applied it to the boil, and Hezekiah recovered.
  18. 2 Kings 20:8וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · had asked
    Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”
  19. 2 Kings 20:9וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · had replied
    And Isaiah had replied, “This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: Would you like the shadow to go forward ten steps, or back ten steps?”
  20. 2 Kings 20:10וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · answered
    “It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps,” answered Hezekiah, “but not for it to go back ten steps.”
  21. 2 Kings 20:14וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · and asked; אָמְר֣וּ׀ · did they say; וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · replied
    Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”
  22. 2 Kings 20:15וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · Isaiah asked; וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · answered
    “What have they seen in your palace?” Isaiah asked. “They have seen everything in my palace,” answered Hezekiah. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”
  23. 2 Kings 20:16וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · said
    Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD:
  24. 2 Kings 20:17אָמַ֥ר · says
    The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
  25. 2 Kings 20:19וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said; וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · For he thought
    But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Will there not at least be peace and security in my lifetime?”
  26. 2 Kings 21:4אָמַ֣ר · had said
    Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”
  27. 2 Kings 21:7אָמַ֤ר · had said
    Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.
  28. 2 Kings 21:10לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    And the LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,
  29. 2 Kings 21:12אָמַ֤ר · says
    …this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it.
  30. 2 Kings 22:3לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent the scribe, Shaphan son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the house of the LORD, saying,
  31. 2 Kings 22:8וַ֠יֹּאמֶר · said to
    Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD!” And he gave it to Shaphan, who read it.
  32. 2 Kings 22:9וַיֹּ֗אמֶר
    And Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, “Your servants have paid out the money that was found in the temple and have put it into the hands of the workers and supervisors of the house of the LORD.”
  33. 2 Kings 22:10לֵאמֹ֔ר
    Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.
  34. 2 Kings 22:12לֵאמֹֽר׃
    …and commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Achbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the servant of the king:
  35. 2 Kings 22:15וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · And [Huldah] said; אָמַ֥ר · says; אִמְר֣וּ · Tell
    And Huldah said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Tell the man who sent you