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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 Chronicles 24:8וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · command
    At the king’s command a chest was made and placed outside, at the gate of the house of the LORD.
  2. 2 Chronicles 24:20וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · and said; אָמַ֣ר · says
    Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has forsaken you.’”
  3. 2 Chronicles 24:22אָמַ֔ר · [Zechariah] said
    Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash killed Jehoiada’s son. As he lay dying, Zechariah said, “May the LORD see this and call you to account.”
  4. 2 Chronicles 25:4לֵאמֹ֗ר
    Yet he did not put their sons to death, but acted according to what is written in the Law, in the Book 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.”
  5. 2 Chronicles 25:7לֵאמֹ֔ר · and said
    But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel—not with any of the Ephraimites.
  6. 2 Chronicles 25:9וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · asked; וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · replied
    Amaziah asked the man of God, “What should I do about the hundred talents I have given to the troops of Israel?” And the man of God replied, “The LORD is able to give you much more than this.”
  7. 2 Chronicles 25:15וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · who said
    Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet, who said, “Why have you sought this people’s gods, which could not deliver them from your hand?”
  8. 2 Chronicles 25:16וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · the king asked; וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · but he said
    While he was still speaking, the king asked, “Have we made you the counselor to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but he said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not heeded my advice.”
  9. 2 Chronicles 25:17לֵאמֹ֑ר · he said
    Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel and sent word to the king of Israel Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu. “Come, let us meet face to face,” he said.
  10. 2 Chronicles 25:18לֵאמֹר֒; 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.
  11. 2 Chronicles 25:19אָמַ֗רְתָּ · You have said
    You have said, ‘Look, I have defeated Edom,’ and your heart has become proud and boastful. Now stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?”
  12. 2 Chronicles 26:18וַיֹּ֤אמְרוּ · and said
    They took their stand against King Uzziah and said, “Uzziah, you have no right to offer incense to the LORD. Only the priests, the descendants of Aaron, are consecrated to burn incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have acted unfaithfully; you will not receive honor from the LORD God.”
  13. 2 Chronicles 26:23אָמְר֖וּ · [the people] said
    And Uzziah rested with his fathers and was buried near them in a field of burial that belonged to the kings, for the people said, “He was a leper.” And his son Jotham reigned in his place.
  14. 2 Chronicles 28:9וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · he said
    But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.
  15. 2 Chronicles 28:10אֹמְרִ֔ים · intend
    And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?
  16. 2 Chronicles 28:13וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ · they said; אֹמְרִ֔ים · are proposing
    “You must not bring the captives here,” they said, “for you are proposing to bring guilt upon us from the LORD and to add to our sins and our guilt. For our guilt is great, and fierce anger is upon Israel.”
  17. 2 Chronicles 28:23וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · and he said
    He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, who had defeated him, and he said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But these gods were the downfall of Ahaz and of all Israel.
  18. 2 Chronicles 29:5וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · he said
    “Listen to me, O Levites,” he said. “Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers. Remove from the Holy Place every impurity.
  19. 2 Chronicles 29:18וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ · and reported
    Then they went in to King Hezekiah and reported, “We have cleansed the entire house of the LORD, the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the table of the showbread with all its utensils.
  20. 2 Chronicles 29:21וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · And [the king] commanded
    They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And the king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
  21. 2 Chronicles 29:24אָמַ֣ר · had ordered
    And the priests slaughtered the goats and put their blood on the altar for a sin offering, to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.
  22. 2 Chronicles 29:27וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · ordered
    And Hezekiah ordered that the burnt offering be sacrificed on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD and the trumpets began as well, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.
  23. 2 Chronicles 29:30וַ֠יֹּאמֶר · ordered
    Then King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to sing praises to the LORD in the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed down and worshiped.
  24. 2 Chronicles 29:31וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · said
    Then Hezekiah said, “Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings.
  25. 2 Chronicles 30:6לֵאמֹ֑ר · which read
    At the command of the king, the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, which read: “Children of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that He may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria.
  26. 2 Chronicles 30:18לֵאמֹ֔ר · saying
    A large number of the people—many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun—had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover, contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah interceded for them, saying, “May the LORD, who is good, provide atonement for everyone
  27. 2 Chronicles 31:4וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · Moreover, he commanded
    Moreover, he commanded the people living in Jerusalem to make a contribution for the priests and Levites so that they could devote themselves to the Law of the LORD.
  28. 2 Chronicles 31:10וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · answered; וַ֠יֹּאמֶר
    …and Azariah, the chief priest of the household of Zadok, answered him, “Since the people began to bring their contributions into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and there is plenty left over, because the LORD has blessed His people; this great abundance is what is left over.”
  29. 2 Chronicles 31:11וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · commanded them
    Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare storerooms in the house of the LORD, and they did so.
  30. 2 Chronicles 32:1וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · intending
    After all these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, intending to conquer them for himself.
  31. 2 Chronicles 32:4לֵאמֹ֑ר · they said
    Many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land. “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” they said.
  32. 2 Chronicles 32:6לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    Hezekiah appointed military commanders over the people and gathered the people in the square of the city gate. Then he encouraged them, saying,
  33. 2 Chronicles 32:9לֵאמֹֽר׃ · with a message
    Later, as Sennacherib king of Assyria and all his forces besieged Lachish, he sent his servants to Jerusalem with a message for King Hezekiah of Judah and all the people of Judah who were in Jerusalem:
  34. 2 Chronicles 32:10אָמַ֔ר · says
    “This is what Sennacherib king of Assyria says: What is the basis of your confidence, that you remain in Jerusalem under siege?
  35. 2 Chronicles 32:11לֵאמֹ֑ר · when he says
    Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ‘The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria?’
  36. 2 Chronicles 32:12וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · and say; לֵאמֹ֔ר
    Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn sacrifices’?
  37. 2 Chronicles 32:17וְלֵֽאמֹ֨ר · and saying; לֵאמֹ֗ר
    He also wrote letters mocking the LORD, the God of Israel, and saying against Him: “Just as the gods of the nations did not deliver their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver His people from my hand.”
  38. 2 Chronicles 32:24וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · who spoke
    In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. So he prayed to the LORD, who spoke to him and gave him a sign.
  39. 2 Chronicles 33:4אָמַ֣ר · had said
    Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”
  40. 2 Chronicles 33:7אָמַ֤ר · had said
    Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God 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.
  41. 2 Chronicles 33:16וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · and he told
    Then he restored the altar of the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it, and he told Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.
  42. 2 Chronicles 34:15וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙
    And Hilkiah 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.