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.
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
Occurrences
5,308 total
- Genesis 29:15וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · saidLaban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
- Genesis 29:18וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · he answeredSince Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
- Genesis 29:19וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · repliedLaban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me.”
- Genesis 29:21וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · saidFinally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”
- Genesis 29:25וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · Jacob saidWhen morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’t it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”
- Genesis 29:26וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · repliedLaban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.
- Genesis 29:32אָֽמְרָ֗ה · she saidAnd Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.”
- Genesis 29:33וַתֹּ֗אמֶר · and she saidAgain she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has given me this son as well.” So she named him Simeon.
- Genesis 29:34וַתֹּ֗אמֶר · and she saidOnce again Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.
- Genesis 29:35וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · and saidAnd once more she conceived and gave birth to a son and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” So she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.
- Genesis 30:1וַתֹּ֤אמֶר · she saidWhen Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.
- Genesis 30:2וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · and saidJacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?”
- Genesis 30:3וַתֹּ֕אמֶר · Then she saidThen she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”
- Genesis 30:6וַתֹּ֤אמֶר · saidThen Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; He has heard my plea and given me a son.” So she named him Dan.
- Genesis 30:8וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · saidThen Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.
- Genesis 30:11וַתֹּ֥אמֶר · saidThen Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she named him Gad.
- Genesis 30:13וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · saidLeah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.
- Genesis 30:14וַתֹּ֤אמֶר · beggedNow during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
- Genesis 30:15וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · But Leah replied; וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · saidBut Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
- Genesis 30:16וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · and saidWhen Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.
- Genesis 30:18וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · saidThen Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my maidservant to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.
- Genesis 30:20וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · said“God has given me a good gift,” she said. “This time my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons.” And she named him Zebulun.
- Genesis 30:23וַתֹּ֕אמֶר · she said…and she conceived and gave birth to a son. “God has taken away my shame,” she said.
- Genesis 30:24לֵאמֹ֑ר · and saidShe named him Joseph, and said, “May the LORD add to me another son.”
- Genesis 30:25וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · saidNow after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.
- Genesis 30:27וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · repliedBut Laban replied, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.”
- Genesis 30:28וַיֹּאמַ֑ר · And he addedAnd he added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”
- Genesis 30:29וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · Then [Jacob] answeredThen Jacob answered, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock have thrived under my care.
- Genesis 30:31וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · Laban asked; וַיֹּ֤אמֶר“What can I give you?” Laban asked. “You do not need to give me anything,” Jacob replied. “If you do this one thing for me, I will keep on shepherding and keeping your flocks.
- Genesis 30:34וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · said“Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”
- Genesis 31:1לֵאמֹ֔רNow Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”
- Genesis 31:3וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · saidThen the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”
- Genesis 31:5וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and he told…and he told them, “I can see from your father’s countenance that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me.
- Genesis 31:8יֹאמַ֗ר · he said; יֹאמַ֗ר · he saidIf he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore speckled offspring. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore streaked offspring.
- Genesis 31:11וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said; וָאֹמַ֖ר · And I repliedIn that dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ And I replied, ‘Here I am.’
- Genesis 31:12וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · he said‘Look up,’ he said, ‘and see that all the males that are mating with the flock are streaked, spotted, or speckled; for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.
- Genesis 31:14וַתֹּאמַ֖רְנָהAnd Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we have any portion or inheritance left in our father’s house?
- Genesis 31:16אָמַ֧ר · has toldSurely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.”
- Genesis 31:24וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and warnedBut that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
- Genesis 31:26וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · saidThen Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!
- Genesis 31:29אָמַ֧ר · said; לֵאמֹ֗רI have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
- Genesis 31:31וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · I thought; אָמַ֔רְתִּי“I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.
- Genesis 31:35וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · [Rachel] saidRachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched but could not find the household idols.
- Genesis 31:36וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · saidThen Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?